Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Panel is proving its worth as a forum for the discussion of new procedures and for bringing practical information to the attention of Lending Services . |
| 2 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 3 | The traditional style of regulation involved members ‘ clubs ’ and the ability of this system to work depended largely on maintaining a relatively small grouping of members through maintaining effective barriers to entry — the Stock Exchange being a prime example here . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman would be well advised to pay some regard to the settlement of next year 's budget , and to set arguments for including specific references to social cohesion in the Maastricht treaty in the context of the bargaining that that budget will involve . |
| 5 | ( Notice here that the ‘ causal relation ’ between the events is artificially contrived , and indeed the only basis for attributing causal status to the events is their temporal relation . ) |
| 6 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 7 | ’ … there is a strong case in the national interest for allowing these resources to be developed unless there are overriding environmental considerations . ’ |
| 8 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 9 | There are numerous instances of volunteers being asked to do things ( such as administering electric shocks to other people ) which are really social situations deliberately created to test people 's reactions to authority . |
| 10 | Critics from both the nationalist and the loyalist side have attacked the DUP ( and its predecessor , the Protestant Unionist Party ) for using working-class loyalists to further its aims . |
| 11 | But should he ever lose faith in the principles behind his asceticism , and fail to put other principles in their place , he will not find himself living in a void without grounds for preferring one apple to another . |
| 12 | Therefore , where multiple rates of return exist there would appear to be no mathematical or economic grounds for preferring one rate to another . |
| 13 | China was believed to be providing technological support for building nuclear weapons to India , Iran , North Korea , Pakistan and possibly Algeria , and had also recently sold M-9 medium-range missiles to Syria and M-11 short-range missiles to Pakistan . |
| 14 | The computer also takes care of other jobs , such as channelling one programme to several booths simultaneously , or providing data on current system usage and tape popularity . |
| 15 | Therefore while the emphasis on infrastructure projects within EC regional aid has in general been much reduced , there must still be a strong case for maintaining such aid to peripheral areas . |
| 16 | Here there is a good case for devoting social funds to retraining programmes and the development of new enterprises ( public sector or cooperative ) on a scale properly commensurate with the problem , rather than trying to ‘ force feed ’ the industry with investment funds . |
| 17 | The phenomenon was first detected at the Bugey-3 reactor in France in September 1991 , but Greenpeace criticises the state electricity company , Electricité de France ( EDF ) , for devoting more attention to rectifying problems as they occur than to examining the causes . |
| 18 | What , it occurred to him , was the difference between accepting this contribution to his expenses and taking the kind of bribe Jonathan Minter had offered him ? |
| 19 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |
| 20 | Accessory straps can be useful for attaching bulky items to the outside of the pack . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the social system which integrates the activities of the workers and provides the flexibility for relating separate tasks to the needs of the production system as a whole must be considered . |
| 22 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |
| 23 | The Greeks strew their common thyme liberally all over roasted or kebabbed lamb , to its great enhancement , and it is worth applying this principle to all the cooking herbs . |
| 24 | It also fulfils a role as a vehicle for enabling Scottish views to be channelled back to the decision makers in Europe . |
| 25 | The other Nobel prizes for 1992 announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 8 and 14 were : ( i ) Literature — Derek Walcott , the first Caribbean writer and poet to receive the honour , for his " multicultural commitment " ; ( ii ) Medicine — Edmond Fischer and Edwin Krebs , US biochemists , for their discovery of a muscle enzyme with implications for cancer treatment ; ( iii ) Economics — Gary Becker , the US-born academic , for applying economic theory to everyday human behaviour ; ( iv ) Physics — Georges Charpak , the Polish-born Frenchman , for research into particle detectors ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Rudolph Marcus , the Canadian-born US scientist , for work on electron transfers . |
| 26 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
| 27 | But , in international relations as in economics , there is scope for applying scientific method to the beliefs and desires of individuals . |
| 28 | This information is relevant to plans for local advertising , leaflet distribution , and for determining the potential for opening another branch to be sited a few kilometres away . |
| 29 | Those interested in Provençal paintings should move on after seeing this show to the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français in Paris , which is showing some of the same artists in an exhibition on Marseille until 5 July ( see p. 8 ) . |
| 30 | the investing group 's share of net assets , other than goodwill , of the associated companies , stated , where possible , after attributing fair values to the assets at the time of acquisition of the interest in the associated companies |