Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While county councillors were in the chamber yesterday discussing how much to overspend in Gloucestershire next year , protestors outside were breathing down their necks demanding an end to the threatened cuts that would result if the budget was brought in on target . |
| 2 | These superb exhibits created by experts make a visit to EDEN CAMP a wonderful and revealing day out for all the family ( please allow three hours plus for a visit ) . |
| 3 | The landscaped gardens outside the houses remain a tribute to the great 18th-century landscaper , Capability Brown . |
| 4 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies . |
| 6 | Currently companies must install state-of-the-art controls on new plant whose emissions pose a threat to air quality in unpolluted areas , but the proposed changes would permit cheaper and less effective devices . |
| 7 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 8 | Its credibility has been severely damaged and its attempts to find a solution to the problem have resulted in abject failure . |
| 9 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 10 | How drug addicts unlocked a key to Parkinson 's Disease |
| 11 | In 1279 the purely clerical assemblies of both provinces made a grant to the king towards the cost of the Welsh wars , but again only after there had been discussion in diocesan assemblies . |
| 12 | The postwar expansion in the book market allowed for a wider distribution ( with paper covers , at lower prices ) and books became a commodity to which the newly developed sales techniques and marketing methods could be applied . |
| 13 | That evening the family ate supper together , but although her brothers made an effort to be cheerful and her mother talked enthusiastically about the wedding arrangements , the clear knowledge that the only daughter was to be taken away caused sighs and long faces among family and servants . |
| 14 | In March parents and relatives of Italy 's 17,000 missionaries made a pilgrimage to Rome . |
| 15 | To what extent did persistently reading different papers or regularly watching different television channels make a difference to swings in political preferences ? |
| 16 | The following steps provide a guide to action . |
| 17 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 18 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 19 | He would take steps to put a stop to it : write to his father , to Uncle Cent at Princenhage . |
| 20 | But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it . |
| 21 | ‘ The manufacturers owed a duty to anyone who should handle the machine to take reasonable steps to see that it was safe . |
| 22 | ‘ Steady , Bessie , ’ said Joe , who did n't intend to ask the ultimate of any woman until he 'd acquired enough savings to put an end to his career as a forger . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that his tactics constituted an invitation to the French to catch and challenge him . |
| 24 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 25 | Did those words imply a halt to recruiting and training guerrillas , as well as to shooting and bombing ? |
| 26 | Such considerations prompted a move to the YEP 's sister paper , the morning Yorkshire Post ( YP ) , to further his development . |
| 27 | The , the point of the change in our constitution was actually to er move strictly away from all parish organizations having a right to representative here , and just a small number have elected . |
| 28 | She turned her head suddenly , and his lips blazed a path to her ear . |
| 29 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 30 | i spotted this in the last number of ‘ Peacock News ’ and what 's more : one of the norwegain fans sent a fax to wilko mentioning Leeds-fan Pedersen. this is taken from a copy of the fax printed in PN : |