Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers .
2 Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final .
3 It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development .
4 And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either .
5 NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures .
6 ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’
7 In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition .
8 Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything .
9 For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed .
10 Equally , the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an ‘ Act of Parliament ’ solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd .
11 He quotes Occam 's razor but never dreams of applying it to most of the controversies he refers to , and , ironically over macroevolution , thinks that some of the recent speculations ‘ must inhibit the penchant for ‘ story-telling ’ and the glib explanation ’ , of the neo-Darwinists .
12 I was thinking of limiting it to 12 .
13 As Evans-Pritchard explains , ‘ in every Zande household there is a fowlhouse , and fowls are kept mainly with the object of subjecting them to oracular tests .
14 In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults .
15 Just about the only humble occupation which derived from having the ability to read and write was that of teaching it to working-class children , and at that level school teaching was often the resort of widows , cripples and those generally unable to find better-paid work .
16 The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers .
17 The following year , however , it was revived with the aim of extending it to other neighbourhoods of the city .
18 Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee .
19 at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more
20 I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board .
21 I am delighted to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE VI — this special mobile laboratory which The Nottingham Trent University has funded to provide your pupils and colleagues with a chance to experience the excitement of working with the equipment on board , which has been developed by the :
22 Having created the luxury 4 × 4 niche , it has no intention of relinquishing it to recent pretenders in the form of the revised Shogun , G-Wagen and Land Cruiser .
23 In 1970 it was acquired by its last owner , Don Campbell of Ontario , who was in the process of restoring it to flying condition .
24 We trust the author will hereafter reprint these expensive volumes in such a form as that they may be accessible to naturalists ; and thereby diffuse science , instead of restricting it to those only who are wealthy . ’
25 Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) .
26 I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen .
27 Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ?
28 And like half way through it they said ehm , they 've giving somebody the wrong prize money or something , they 've giving somebody fifty pounds , they should off giving it to this other coloured women right , and apparently this women was giving it all wow man yeah man , and all this you , you know they give it to them in the end and then she won the twelve hundred pounds .
29 In Kuwait , the resistance , we are not trying to kill them , we are trying to destroy their tanks , to destroy their erm bases , to take their weapons , and to bring them to our sides for to send them to Saudi .
30 And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ .
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