Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 2 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 3 | Does that look cross-eyed to you from there ? |
| 4 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 5 | Above all , you should be aware that he is not under an obligation to promote a settlement that is ‘ fair ’ or to explain unfair dismissal law to you in great detail . |
| 6 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 7 | For example , for Harpton Court , Radnor , built around 1805 , Mr Colvin lists the outbuildings under Nash , whereas Mr Mansbridge gives the new south front to him despite its air of a Late Classical job of the 1840s . |
| 8 | Whether housing your new brood of Kribs in a derelict stone cottage appeals to you at a whimsical or practical level is irrelevant . |
| 9 | Indicative Drug Budgets will act as an aid to monitoring the prescribing costs of GPs rather than as a direct cash payment to them from which they pay the pharmacists . |
| 10 | And do n't for Christ 's sake talk to me about culture . |
| 11 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 13 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 14 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 15 | This was in your original phone call to me at home in Oxford , on the evening of March 6th . |
| 16 | Mr Hillier said the threats had been made in a phone call to him in 1991 , a phone call that was taped by the police . |
| 17 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 18 | If Glencar does apply for a licence and planning permission to mine in west Mayo it will meet opposition on two levels . |
| 19 | They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available . |
| 20 | Mademoiselle rose to her in her seat and for all her smallness she seemed enormous to Gwendoline just then , her beady eyes |
| 21 | Large numbers of laypeople from all walks of life resort to them for back disorders , often after having tried conventional medical approaches unsuccessfully . |
| 22 | Roy 's paintings , influenced by Giorgio de Chirico , typically align ambiguously associated common objects , sometimes in a landscape , sometimes in an interior , against what he referred to ( in an autobiographical statement prepared for the Museum of Modern Art ) as ‘ the light blue sky with feather-like clouds between Angers and the sea ’ a sky beloved to him from childhood days . |
| 23 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're a sex object to me at this moment , ’ said Surkov . |
| 25 | A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy . |
| 26 | You 'd be surprised how many specks of dust stick to them from underneath . |
| 27 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 29 | Now I personally believe that most erm policy makers in Britain , and indeed in most other industrial countries , do n't really believe the Third World matters to them at all . |
| 30 | An example you would do well to learn from , if this sort of book appeals to you as a potential writer , is the Inspector Dover novels of Joyce Porter . |