Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 2 | ‘ I will act as a conduit to pass on information to the OFT , but only the OFT has the power to amend its report . ’ |
| 3 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 4 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 5 | We swam out perpendicular to the two to three knot current , until we were in its heart . |
| 6 | Focusing upon problem emotions means that the counsellor has to be able to pass back information to the counsellee . |
| 7 | In a US property , a guest let off steam to the bartender because his room was not ready and it was already late . |
| 8 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 9 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 10 | Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year . |
| 11 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 12 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 13 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 14 | A WELL thought out tribute to the classical talents of the late Valerie Thornton , this exhibition of paintings and etchings takes in her love for architecture , both ecclesiastical and vernacular . |
| 15 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 16 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 17 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 18 | Months before , bringing back life to the earth . |
| 19 | the criminal courts should be empowered to require offenders to carry out service to the community . |
| 20 | Hence if the construction of the building which is to be the catering premises shuts out light to the adjoining premises it thereby infringes the rights of the neighbours and gives rise to a cause of action for contravention of their easement of light . |
| 21 | Savage penalties were meted out broadcast to the craftsmen , which suggests both a low status in the eyes of the king and a low standard of honesty . |
| 22 | They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world . |
| 23 | The home of the Ba was the body in the tomb , but it was able to go out freely and bring back life to the body and thus preserve the deceased 's identity on earth . |
| 24 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 25 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm content to go into the army , and I 'm definitely against giving up territory to the Arabs . ’ |
| 27 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 28 | In 1988 , after the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza had started their uprising , he made another fateful decision , renouncing Jordan 's claim to the West Bank and handing over responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 29 | While the measures taken by Britain in conjunction with our European partners to isolate the Burmese Government are welcome , the military dictators are still in power , they have no intention of handing over power to the democratically elected Government , and the appalling abuse of human rights continues . |
| 30 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |