Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
7 | 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 ’ . |
8 | BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships . |
9 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
17 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
18 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
19 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
20 | He argued that the Europeans still needed time to arm and to build up their self-confidence . |
21 | Love Child once paid homage to street musician Moondog on an EP called ‘ Love Child Plays Moondog ’ which Forced Exposure mag released with much snickering . |
22 | DRG 's property assets have also given rise to argument . |
23 | The epidemic strain also exhibited resistance to tobramycin , ciprofloxacin , co-trimoxazole , chloramphenicol , temocillin , imipenem , meropenem , and to the new quinolones PD 127391 and PD 131628 . |
24 | Richards made it worryingly clear how far the Church was responsible for enshrining such illiberal attitudes , though to do it credit , the Church also introduced consent to marriage and made rape a crime against the person , rather than property . |
25 | Intravenously administered vasoactive intestinal polypeptide instantly changed absorption to secretion and the effect stopped after the end of the infusion . |
26 | THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts . |
27 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
28 | With the backing of the BBC , the guarded co-operation of the couple and the collaboration of a fine screenwriter , Andrew Davies , a full-length film drama was prepared and Gerard even secured permission to film in Cape Town . |
29 | Since the late 1970s feminist sociologists have increasingly drawn attention to gender as a dividing principle too . |
30 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |