Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 2 | I know but the one that goes right to Church Hill , that one . |
| 3 | After following Wilton Lane to the north for around ¾ mile the route goes right to Dunsdale Farm and on to meet the B1269 . |
| 4 | The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped . |
| 5 | This he passed eventually to Richard Hakluyt [ q.v. ] for publication in his Principall Navigations in 1589 . |
| 6 | Against this background , the British-born speakers show especially differentiated behaviour , sticking mostly to London English but occasionally manifesting strategic switches into Creole . |
| 7 | Undaunted Mountbatten battled on , but he could do little to prevent the fait accompli that led eventually to Dien Bien Phu . |
| 8 | The technicalities of Zambia 's international grants and debt mean little to Texas Kasonde . |
| 9 | DEPARTURES BRITISH Airways ( 081-897 4000 ) flies daily to Hong Kong , apex return £468 ( Dec ) , £408 ( Jan ) . |
| 10 | This total compared with 32,000 in 1990 when figures applied only to West Germany . |
| 11 | US State Department officials quoted in the Washington Post of March 7 , however , defended the administration 's decision , claiming that the Pressler Amendment applied only to government aid . |
| 12 | This extended period , however , applied only to airforce personnel and equipment . |
| 13 | And the April referendum applied only to savings banks . |
| 14 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 15 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 16 | The second half of the concert will be given entirely to Johann Strauss II . |
| 17 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 18 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 19 | The NIA was housed on the premises of Technos International , a manufacturer of electronic surveillance equipment sold only to US government agencies and countries with special export clearances . |
| 20 | Pointless samples start every song ; the beat is ridiculously loud and trying to be ravey but is too cluttered and shuffling ; the addition of a backing singer adds little to Peter Hooton 's irritating foghorn voice ; the guitars are still chiming , charmless indie-dance sounds throughout ; they still look like brickies and Peter Hooton still dances like my dad . |
| 21 | THE FLORIDA state legislature began a special session yesterday devoted entirely to abortion law . |
| 22 | It is now possible to add or remove elements , and modify whole sections of the commercial , by means of computer systems such as ‘ Paintbox ’ — a system that contributed greatly to Peter Greenaway 's feature film Prospero 's Books — or ‘ Harry ’ . |
| 23 | This initiative owes much to Belle Tutaev who , while pioneering for an expansion of state-financed nursery education , suggested that mothers might like to establish their own ‘ playgroups ’ . |
| 24 | The event opens with some of his more recent ‘ topiary ’ interpretations of the Minster , where the whole is dominated by a very powerful interpretation of the Crucifixion that owes much to Matthias Grunewald ( 1475/801528 ) the Mathis der Maler of Hindemith 's opera . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
| 26 | She insisted on having me with her , so we moved together to Thrushcross Grange , although I was very sad to leave little Hareton with his father . |
| 27 | Residents agreed to write individually to Durham County Council and Darlington MP Michael Fallon . |
| 28 | In the media foreign incursions were confined largely to cinema films and TV entertainment series . |
| 29 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 30 | I mentioned Ben Ami and Um Al-Farajh and referred momentarily to Mrs Zamzam , when suddenly the boy 's face lit up . |