Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun pl] " 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 Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ?
4 For example in Germany , works councils have long had access to resources to investigate design of work systems under the Quality of Working Life .
5 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 .
6 Gloucester 's reaction to this arrangement is unknown , but Lancashire was the one area of the north where Edward failed to endorse his power and the duke may well have resented his exclusion ; recent work has emphasized that he never entirely abandoned claims to grants which he had once held .
7 Gloucester 's reaction to this arrangement is unknown , but Lancashire was the one area of the north where Edward failed to endorse his power and the duke may well have resented his exclusion ; recent work has emphasized that he never entirely abandoned claims to grants which he had once held .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 But Descartes had already given answers to objections such as these .
12 As we have already set zeros to blanks ( in Step 7 ) the outcome of the match being false is that the cell is left blank .
13 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 .
14 Taking account of moves towards further devolved management to schools and proposed greater consultation between headteachers and boards it is likely that training will be all the more important in the future .
15 Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) .
16 The Shah had always preferred Republicans to Democrats and he had felt that Carters human rights programme was in some senses directed against him .
17 That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages .
18 As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky .
19 Financial collapses , major frauds , litigation , environmental responsibility , all have understandably given rise to demands for companies to strengthen their control over their business and their public accountability .
20 Housing policy in this country has traditionally given priority to children 's needs and we would find it very worrying if that priority were eroded in any way by the introductions of policies aiming to discriminate against children in one setting i.e. children of lone parent families .
21 Instead of spending money on a media blitz , it sends carefully targeted mailings to social-events committees and retirement clubs , and to schools and colleges .
22 His money-lending activities also included loans to members of the Finch family and their political connections .
23 He 's also designed modifications to gliders which allow other disabled people to fly .
24 One-third also administered medicines to clients and 17 per cent said they carried out tasks which should have been done by nurses .
25 To provide a further economic incentive for emission sources to reduce the pollutant emissions , Norway later introduced rebates to polluters in proportion to the amount of pollution reduction achieved by them ( OECD , 1980c ) .
26 The HCIMA helped to man the Industry Careers stand at Careers ‘ 92 in Manchester and London , and also provided advice to visitors to the Caterer & Hotelkeeper Careers Fair at the Connaught Rooms in October .
27 In order that satisfactory treatments can be developed , proper studies need to be carried out on those subjects who have psychologically based reactions to foods , however manifested .
28 Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits .
29 His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration .
30 We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge .
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