Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on the morning of Friday 16 August the governor of Fort Augustus , in the middle of the ‘ Great Glen ’ line , sent two companies of foot soldiers south-westwards to reinforce Fort William , along General Wade 's new military road . |
| 2 | The failure of motility observations adequately to explain symptoms has led many to consider the sensory or afferent connections between the gut and the brain . |
| 3 | Any other report , erm , such as to request the director of property services fully to explore all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate for the maximum financial benefit to the County Council , that sort of report for instance has not been requested by the property sub- committee nor by any other committee with erm , er , as I understand it . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the limitations of the supranational institutions and the unwillingness of member states totally to set aside their own national interests were starkly exposed in 1959 . |
| 5 | Erm and it does make it very difficult then for Trading Standards then to pick up the pieces . |
| 6 | Earnings per share in the year to 31 January have slumped to 21.75p from 24.87p , and the trust management will have to dip into revenue reserves just to meet the board 's own proposed final dividend of 17p . |
| 7 | This was rebuilt with a large single-indicator box at each end , and fitted with bench seats upstairs to increase the capacity to 94 . |
| 8 | I then turned back onto Sky Sports only to catch the last 5 minutes or so . |
| 9 | Go and look at paintings in art galleries just to see what effect the artist is trying to achieve . |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ During the course of the nesting season we have been paying out up to £2,000 a week in man hours just to patrol the lines and remove nests . |
| 11 | as if volatile markets are n't enough to contend with , private investors who invest in unit trusts primarily to minimise the risk of equity investment have found just how uncertain that too can prove . |
| 12 | In 1987 , I would be here in rue Trablos again to find that the grass had formed a miniature jungle , that the bushes had become trees that sometimes grew taller than the ruins , small groves and forests of dark , luxuriant foliage moving gently in the hot breeze . |
| 13 | The fourth consideration concerns the informal but paternalistic social relations that exist between employer and employees on farms which make it difficult for farm workers even to consider industrial action . |
| 14 | Capital fleeing the country has been recycled through family connections abroad to reappear as fresh capital imports capable of attracting the more recently relaxed rules for foreign investors , regardless of national or ethnic origin . |
| 15 | On one occasion , ‘ action likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ was invoked by Kent police successfully to turn miners back at the Dartford tunnel , over 100 miles from their intended destination . |