Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 2 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 3 | They bring each other to perfection . |
| 4 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 5 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 6 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 7 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 8 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 9 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 10 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |
| 12 | The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered . |
| 13 | They mount each , they tear each other to pieces , |
| 14 | ‘ Dead-end ’ partnerships evidently bring little reward to women who miss out on the normal progression from junior to senior status and the accompanying benefits . |
| 15 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , we asked that question to Redd Harvest of the T-H-R agency as the Op was on her way to face a cadre of the Trap Door Spiders . ’ |
| 17 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 18 | Given that reference to Hansard was permissible , the taxpayers ' appeal was allowed . |
| 19 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 20 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 21 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 22 | That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power . |
| 23 | Here , bring this vision to Carlton House next week . |
| 24 | The shares tumbled another 40p to 560p . |
| 25 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |
| 26 | He said the congress would prefer this idea to impeachment . |
| 27 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 28 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 29 | She took a bus into the shopping centre , stopped to buy Bridget some flowers , and got another bus to Woodstock Road . |
| 30 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |