Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
2 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
3 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
4 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
5 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
6 | Among the most beautiful are the ‘ Morgenlied ’ ( track 3 ) and the autumn song , Phoebus hunting with his horses ; the freedom given to the three vocal parts is a conspicuous feature of the latter . |
7 | Like the implicit analogy between the Nixon pardon and a cleaning product , the comparison between denazification and the action of washing powder points to the arbitrary nature of the performative act and questions the authority on which it is based . |
8 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
9 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
10 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
11 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
12 | Differentiation refers to the different relationships , departments and goals that exist within an organisation and integration is the degree of co-ordination and co-operation between different departments with inter-departmental tasks . |
13 | Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
14 | They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% . |
15 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
16 | English Nature spent over £6 million on habitat management agreements during the year and gave more than £250,000 in land purchase grants to the voluntary sector . |
17 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
18 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
19 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
20 | Whether the tape is a real recording of the voices of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles or not , its existence points to a concerted effort to damage Prince Charles . |
21 | Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance . |
22 | Our sympathy goes to the bereaved and the injured . |
23 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
24 | There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) . |
25 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
26 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
27 | ZOMAX , a new pain-killing drug given to a million people in the UK over the last two years is being withdrawn by the manufacturers , pending changes in the prescribing information issued to doctors . |
28 | In this way , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance just as much as the reformulation does . |
29 | This suggests that even when writers explicitly indicate that they are correcting themselves , as for example in [ 34 ] , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance of the text . |
30 | Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government . |