Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of ‘ back-door ’ rights issues enabled companies to evade the requirements of pre-emptive rights by getting shareholders to agree to a paper issue ( an expansion of the authorized capital which , if not being sold to raise additional capital , may be used in a share swap ) for the purpose of taking over an investment trust . |
| 2 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 3 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 4 | International pressure on the Cambodian factions to agree to a settlement had increased markedly in late August and early September . |
| 5 | Their proposal would have allowed employee inventors to apply to a tribunal to assess what would constitute a ‘ fair ’ reward for their efforts in the light of all the circumstances attending the creation and subsequent exploitation of the invention . |
| 6 | Several resolutions aimed at co-ordinating research were adopted , including : the formation of a European information bank , a research programme into mountain forests , a European information bank and an invitation to research institutes to contribute to a study of forest ecosystems at a European reserve . |
| 7 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 8 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 9 | Reports in late August said that Germany had increased pressure on its western allies to agree to a ban on short-range nuclear weapons and was locked in conflict with France over its refusal to cancel the Hades short-range nuclear missile programme . |
| 10 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 11 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 12 | An appeal can also be made if the council takes more than eight weeks to come to a decision — this is called an appeal against non-determination . |
| 13 | First Bernard Dwyer and Shane Cooper combined to send Kevin Ward crashing over and then Dwyer kicked ahead for Sonny Nickle to win the race and touch down , Ropati landed both conversions to add to a couple of earlier penalties . |
| 14 | Clientelism is a strategy used by capitalists and workers to adapt to a situation where there is limited mobility . |
| 15 | It is thought certain that Mr Ward will fight extradition proceedings , which as a result could take up to two years to bring to a conclusion . |
| 16 | The Minister must realise that the public are not that interested in boring details about procedures — for example , about whether a public utility is supposed to take a maximum of two weeks or three weeks to reply to a letter of complaint . |
| 17 | Obviously it was no more sensible for a politician to compromise his own position at court by allowing enemies to point to a connection between his politics . |
| 18 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 19 | The Austro-German advance became an irresistible tide , forcing the Russians to retreat to a line running almost straight , north to south , from Riga to Czernowitz . |
| 20 | An object the size of the Sun would take 29 minutes to collapse to a singularity under its own gravity — at least that would be the time measured by an observer stationed on its surface before he too vanished into zero dimensions . |
| 21 | The approach is to choose two discount rates to apply to a project , so that one produces a positive NVP and the other a negative NPV . |
| 22 | Further , from the outset , they were encouraged to set aside time during meetings to devote to a training topic . |
| 23 | Almost half of the respondents expected their farms to go to a member of the next generation . |
| 24 | It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed . |
| 25 | In desperation the king and his advisers persuaded the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin and six other bishops to subscribe to a declaration that the article of the Great Charter regarding ‘ evil customs ’ was not to be construed as abolishing any customary laws essential to the continued existence of the forest . |
| 26 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 27 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 28 | We want our children to come to a love and respect of all God 's people . |
| 29 | We asked some children to add to a picture to show where the light in a room was coming from . |
| 30 | He described the drastic measures to move to a market economy as Utopian and a kind of " neo-Bolshevism . " |