Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 2 | This last suggestion might be taken more seriously as the working week gets shorter and if the pay penalties for devoting time to caring were reduced . |
| 3 | Then he turned up and explained his ideas about bringing electricity to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 4 | But he 's obviously genuine about bringing democracy to Zimbala . |
| 5 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 6 | The head also needs to reward those who are on the right lines through drawing attention to successes , prominently displaying thank you letters on the staff room notice board , using time to convince , cheer , direct , push and urge . |
| 7 | Some doubts about ascribing identity to meanings |
| 8 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 9 | After applying balm to Cleo 's face , Apanage took them to Dratslinger 's workroom . |
| 10 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 11 | After coaching back to back French Open champions Higueras gained deserved notoriety . |
| 12 | After saying goodbye to Auntie , I fetch the basket and stool from the utility and take the sheets in , thinking Ma will be even more upset if she sees her clean washing all splashed with red . |
| 13 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 14 | Three days after giving birth to Caroline , Mrs Cossins had a second sterilisation operation . |
| 15 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 16 | The royal rebel caused ructions in Monaco after giving birth to son Louis Robert last week . |
| 17 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 18 | Genevieve ( 1953 ) , one of Rank 's biggest successes of the decade , was directed by another old Ealing hand , Henry Cornelius , who left the studio after making Passport to Pimlico . |
| 19 | The procedure for seeking access to information and the circumstances in which it may be denied are discussed at Chapter 16 , 10 . |
| 20 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |
| 21 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 22 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 23 | This strategy of imputing impurity to women who challenged medical hegemony had its effects . |
| 24 | The Bill will be a further significant contribution towards the vital aim of bringing reassurance to people who might otherwise be at risk of losing their homes . |
| 25 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 26 | It 's not all bad news , however , as Taunton Cider are ‘ mothballing ’ their rail connection and Fitzgerald Lighting intend to ‘ actively pursue any realistic method of returning traffic to rail in the future . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless serious misgivings may persist about the wisdom of ascribing identity to meanings . |
| 28 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 29 | And Walker ( 1978 ) has argued that although all rural dwellers are burdened by the extra costs of gaining access to services , doing without them , or consuming inadequate services , that these costs bear disproportionately on the rural poor . |
| 30 | But what comes across from the letters is an overwhelming ignorance about female physiology and sexuality , the difficulty of gaining access to information , and a lack of privacy in their homes that would have rendered the use of female methods of birth control extremely difficult . |