Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 2 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 3 | Below him , Fleury raced along outside the churchyard wall under the bayonets of the galloping sepoys , touching off the trains to the fougasses . |
| 4 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 5 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 6 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 7 | A strong swimmer , she managed to reach a rock jutting above the water , and there she stuck ; it would have been suicidal to attempt to swim through the rapids to either shore . |
| 8 | Churchill 's personal popularity had been vouched for invariably by above 75% of the respondents , and the government , though poorly regarded during the setbacks to British arms in 1942 , after the battle of El Alamein was never below 70% . |
| 9 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 10 | When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years . |
| 11 | A week later , Tite again asked for the drawings to be exhibited ‘ with as little delay as possible ’ . |
| 12 | I have , therefore , been asked to repeat my request of 3 July asking you to arrange for the hedges to be trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 13 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 14 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |
| 15 | As the choristers sang a low chant in the background , the priest moved from one vessel to the next , praying for the fishermen to be kept safe from harm , and asking that the catch over the next year may be bountiful . |
| 16 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 17 | Crow Wood was empty for most of this century , remote and forgotten between the roads to Easby and Ingleby . |
| 18 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 19 | Further down the hall , Santerre shouted for the windows to be opened , canvas sheets to be brought , and issued curt requests that Rachel and his wife go back to their rooms . |
| 20 | He shouted for the doors to be opened and of course they snapped open as usual . |
| 21 | On March 17 the Albanian Foreign Ministry protested about the incidents to the Greek ambassador in Tirana , claiming that there was " systematic mistreatment " of Albanian would-be migrants [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38775 ] |
| 22 | Cardiff moved through the shadows to where Frye was crouched against the wall , next to the reception desk . |
| 23 | The trust aims to challenge the legality of the exclusion order , made under the 1986 Public Order Act , deeming two or more people walking towards the stones to be a criminal procession . |
| 24 | The information held on the PNC can be disclosed via the police to a wide range of bodies . |
| 25 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 26 | It appears that the mother would be eligible for financial assistance in returning with the children to Australia , whereas the father and the lady with whom he now lives would have to fund their own travel arrangements to England and to that extent the father would be disadvantaged . |
| 27 | The red and green of the Aztec necklace links it compositionally with the indigenous plants to the ‘ south ’ of the painting , the pink colonial-style dress tonally blending with the skyscrapers to the ‘ north ’ . |
| 28 | Make a power adjustment with ice on these and chunks will break off , getting sucked into the compressors to the accompaniment of loud and expensive pops and bangs . |
| 29 | Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day . |
| 30 | Where convertible debt , non-equity interests in shareholders ' funds or non-equity interests in minority interests , are disclosed in the notes to the financial statements rather than on the face of the balance sheet ( as required by paragraphs 22 , 34 or 44 ) on the grounds that they are not material , the relevant caption on the face of the balance sheet should state that convertible debt or non-equity interests ( as the case may be ) are included . |