Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 2 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 3 | Many UK libraries provide a subject index linking alphabetically arranged descriptive headings to classification codes . |
| 4 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 5 | Buyers often develop strong loyalties to suppliers , preferring not to make changes unless they are unavoidable . |
| 6 | Window boxes , tubs and hanging baskets come to life in summer , bringing rich colour to buildings and gardens throughout the country . |
| 7 | Both Catholic and evangelical churches ( particularly those based in the United States ) have given economic aid to villages , particularly in the Ixil ‘ development pole ’ . |
| 8 | Just as Jesus chose the unpredictable , speak-now-think-later Peter as a disciple , and called him ‘ a rock ’ , God chose the nervous , young , inexperienced Jeremiah to preach strong sermons to Israel and the surrounding countries . |
| 9 | One of the Baptist J. H. Shakespeare 's sons became private secretary to Lloyd George and an MP . |
| 10 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 11 | Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1874 , he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit , and then in June 1880 became political secretary to Sir Charles Dilke [ q.v. ] , his father being so disappointed at his abandoning law that he was disinherited in favour of a younger brother . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Clarify Inc , San Jose , California , pocketed $5.4m in its second round of financing , bringing total investment to date to $8.9m , considerably more than other like-minded start-ups like ProActive Software Inc , Scopus Technology Inc , Aurum Software Inc , Quintus and Lysis Inc , Atlanta , Georgia , have to play with . |
| 13 | Given Aitken 's fervent support for the Biafrans , it is not unfair to assume that any suggestion of confidence that was not specifically expressed would have been dampened in his mind , since the publication of the document in his view would lend strong support to critics of the government 's policy . |
| 14 | I refer here to so-called humanistic approaches to language teaching , and make specific allusion to Gertrude Moskowitz 's book Caring and Sharing in the foreign Language Classroom ( 1978 ) . |
| 15 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 16 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 17 | How often in the past have I not given due credence to relatives ' statements of how bad the client was ? |
| 18 | In seeking to escape from this conclusion it was submitted in argument that the reasoning of the judgment did not show , or show sufficiently , that Thorpe J. had given due weight to W. 's wishes and that accordingly he had misdirected himself . |
| 19 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 20 | ‘ After the Gothic victory , Clovis made rich offerings to St Martin of Tours . |
| 21 | It is becoming increasingly apparent that drugs , which act through mechanisms other than acid inhibition , can control duodenal ulcer disease as effectively as H 2 receptor atagonists ; the findings of this study suggest that stimulation of normal gastroduodenal motility ( and thus acid clearance from the bulb ) may be an important mechanism in this respect , but one which has received scant attention to date . |
| 22 | The social fund has given extensive help to people in real need . |
| 23 | Three years later he returned to Manchester New College , and in 1888 he became assistant minister to Philip Wicksteed in Little Portland Street , London . |
| 24 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 25 | Albania also made friendly overtures to China , in August 1990 receiving Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister , Tian Zengpei , the first such visit since the late 1970s . |
| 26 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 27 | The TEC 's main function is to channel public funds to training schemes for the unemployed . |
| 28 | An example of this activity producing direct benefits to musicians is the case of commercial ( ILR ) radio stations . |
| 29 | introduce different solutions to problems ; |
| 30 | In preparation for the second round , Nebot , presenting an image of an energetic young leader , made public overtures to Bucarám on May 16 which hinted at the possibility of a populist alliance . |