Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ’ … there is a strong case in the national interest for allowing these resources to be developed unless there are overriding environmental considerations . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Accessory straps can be useful for attaching bulky items to the outside of the pack . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It also fulfils a role as a vehicle for enabling Scottish views to be channelled back to the decision makers in Europe . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | POSC has licensed OpenODB and UniSQL documentation after evaluating 29 submissions to its request for proposal , and says it 'll publish initial SIP specifications next year so that vendors can begin upgrading their products or developing new ones to its specification . |
| 16 | 15-year-old Joanna Hughes died last August after suffering severe burns to her chest and neck . |
| 17 | After extending palaeomagnetic investigations to rocks from North America it was found that while these too showed an apparent movement of the magnetic pole the path of polar wandering appeared to differ systematically from that determined for Europe . |
| 18 | The son of another Superintendent has told how he and his mother often had to remove the leggings and gaiters from his father when he arrived home soaking wet and utterly stiff and weary after cycling several miles to and from a meeting on a winter night . |
| 19 | Jones , fined £500 after making obscene gestures to QPR players in April 1989 , was twice charged by the FA last season . |
| 20 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 21 | It did not , however , stop them continuing with the innovation in the next school year , after making some modifications to the scheme of work . |
| 22 | He was rushed to hospital on the day of the crash with his wife Ethel and young granddaughter , both passengers in the car , was released later the same day after receiving three stitches to a head wound . |
| 23 | The Government propose to Brussels that the same upper limits be set on dosages of dietary supplements for ordinary consumers buying off the shelves as for professional practitioners of alternative medicine , even though such practitioners may have good reasons for recommending higher doses to their patients . |
| 24 | The alternative criterion for assigning lexical units to a single lexeme is that their senses should be local senses belonging to the same sense-spectrum . |
| 25 | Althusser 's reason for assigning these strategies to different practices is , I think , that he believes that they achieve a single result ( as far as economic practice is concerned ) in radically different ways . |
| 26 | An indication of this level of appreciation is the adequacy of arrangements for inducting new members to an organisation with distinctive characteristics . |
| 27 | Under that system , which we will begin to have under the Labour Government , we would not have to worry about dispensing public funds to private solicitors . |
| 28 | How come you got ta give forty tapes to the lady then ? |
| 29 | The promise of the field-marshal 's baton in every private 's knapsack was never intended as a programme for promoting all soldiers to field-marshals . |
| 30 | The justification for promoting investigative approaches to learning and teaching is that it : |