Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 2 | In a widely reported speech to police chiefs at the time of the disorders Hurd made this point clear : |
| 3 | The loss of the two ports was serious , as the English now had only limited access to Normandy and to the capital , Rouen , which had come to replace Paris . |
| 4 | Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size . |
| 5 | With the cheque he received from the company , together with one from his workmates , Alec put these towards a long awaited trip to Australia . |
| 6 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 7 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 8 | For example in Germany , works councils have long had access to resources to investigate design of work systems under the Quality of Working Life . |
| 9 | I definitely think we 've found a niche , not just in a business sense , but in the sense of providing a much needed service to dog owners , and I think we all need some helpful service nowadays , rather than being told to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 10 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 11 | Your readers may not be aware that the Institute is providing much appreciated support to members who have suffered redundancy , with all the personal and career problems that follow in the wake of such an upheaval . |
| 12 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 13 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 14 | Only in cases involving ethnic groups does it suddenly forget its much advertised opposition to censorship and abandon its crusading zeal to defend the public 's ‘ right to know ’ . |
| 15 | BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships . |
| 16 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 17 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 18 | These events eventually made plain to Gandhi the existence in both official and unofficial circles of a section of British public opinion which he could not hope to convert , though he came most reluctantly to an acknowledgement of this fact . |
| 19 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 20 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 21 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 22 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 23 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 24 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 25 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 26 | But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ? |
| 27 | Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right . |
| 28 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 29 | Trips have already taken place to Edinburgh Castle , Luss on Loch Lomond and up the Clyde Valley . |
| 30 | The Science Reference and Information Service of the British Library has just published Guide to Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe ( ISBN 0 7123 0795 8 ) , compiled by the information specialist Maria Hughes , from data not widely available . |