Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , R&D done by rivals adds to information generated by a firm 's own R&D activities , and both are useful , non-competing inputs which expand the knowledge base from which the future innovations of all firms emerge . |
| 2 | In May 1685 , Exchequer processes against Quakers for failure to come to church amounted to £33,300 in the county of Suffolk alone . |
| 3 | The proportion of Britain 's gross domestic product devoted to education fell from 5.6% in 1981–82 to 5.0% in 1990–91 . |
| 4 | THE first permanent public gallery in Britain devoted to art inspired by the world 's many religions has opened in Glasgow . |
| 5 | 1.2 The first point is of general importance to both liability and quantum : namely , that the basic rule relating to evidence contained in RSC Ord 38 , r1 ( see Appendix C ) and CCR Ord 20 , r4 provides that questions of fact should be proved at the hearing of any action begun by writ or of any action in a county court by the examination of witnesses orally in open court . |
| 6 | Two totally separate questions , the first relating to entrance pricing at our entertainment businesses and we 'll deal with that first . |
| 7 | On Oct. 12 three former Matrix Churchill executives had come to trial charged with breaching export regulations over a period of more than two years prior to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , in particular by falsely describing the equipment as for civilian use . |
| 8 | First , several left-wing Labour councils had come to power committed to establishing more effective , and thus inevitably more contentious , local economic policies . |
| 9 | If this is correct Rolle was putting some distance between himself and his father but returning to territory known in childhood . |
| 10 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 11 | Nor has this approach been confined to legislation passed by subordinate legislatures . |
| 12 | Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee , confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug . |
| 13 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 14 | Similarly , ‘ abuse of a dominant position ’ in Article 86 of EC law is likely to relate to advantage taken of monopolistic power in imposing terms . |
| 15 | No hybridization occurred to DNA prepared from Xenopus laevis , Caenorhabditis elegans , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , the parasite Giardia , or to the prokaryotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptomyces griseus . |
| 16 | I am sure the Barons of the Exchequer would be interested in the profits to be made in the king 's prison , and in what happens to money entrusted to you . ’ |
| 17 | The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery . |
| 18 | Now they know that in listening to information given by television , on television , er on radio , they can buy newspapers produced in Great Britain . |
| 19 | The Conservatives turned to protection disguised as imperial preference in 1933 , and adopted a series of state measures to aid the reduction and consolidation of the declining heavy industries . |
| 20 | The danger is that the question of methodology can easily be turned to dogma according to any premises . |
| 21 | The situation was extremely complex because of the different pricing systems being applied to gas according to supply source and age ( i.e. when the gas was discovered ) . |
| 22 | The idea of a complex structure can be applied to equipment manufactured by different suppliers , e.g. central heating boilers . |
| 23 | In an integrated software system the spreadsheets capabilities can also be applied to information stored in a data base , indeed some packages , Lotus 123 for example , treat data bases exactly like a spreadsheet . |
| 24 | The claim forms for each section are checked and totalled by administrative assistants , and totals transferred to section registers for record purposes . |
| 25 | Much of the responsibility for education and training related to employment rests with the Training , Enterprise and Education Division ( formerly the Training Agency ) of the Department of Employment . |
| 26 | However , when seen again as an outpatient 2 days later , she admitted the overdose had been related to feeling rejected by a master at school with whom she was infatuated . |
| 27 | The books had also been classified and marked according to readability bands from 1–5 to help pupils to choose their books themselves . |
| 28 | The IDA eventually dropped the idea of Nad , according to evidence given at the An Bord Pleanala appeal , because most of the suitable land was held in common . |
| 29 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 30 | According to evidence given in the trial , the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group . |