Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both American Express and Diners Club have lost ground to Mastercard Gold , which increased its share of the market by about 38 per cent in 1990 ( although from a small base ) and now has 19 per cent of the cards in issue by volume , compared with American Express ' 57 per cent and Diners Club 's 13 per cent , says Market Assessment . |
| 2 | Both the rising expectations of the rural working population and the changing character of the village have made access to some form of transport an essential element of contemporary rural life . |
| 3 | In at least one other case the changes in organizational responsibilities brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act have weakened commitment to these expensive , difficult-to-serve clients and there is the prospect of return to cheaper , poorer-quality care in spite of the benefits experienced by individual clients . |
| 4 | The RSC , Ofwat and the House of Commons Environment Committee have submitted responses to the government 's proposals for a single environment agency . |
| 5 | That 's because Scum have taken football to another level of skill ( how do you show sarcarsm in e-mail ? ? ) . |
| 6 | Econometric studies of this type have given support to those in favour of limiting overall rates of tax . |
| 7 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 8 | In Ealing , social workers , H.E.A.R.S ( Hounslow & Ealing AIDS Response Service ) and the Ealing Home Support team have made referrals to ACET to provide for needs where a single agency can not give all of the support required . |
| 9 | The campaigns of the deaf community , from within and linked to those of voluntary organisations such as the British Deaf Association , to be recognised as a separate linguistic cultural group have added impetus to the debate , but have posed problems both for the policy-makers and for deaf people themselves . |
| 10 | Life assurance business is being serviced satisfactorily , but the huge and largely unpredictable surge in pensions business and the intrinsic complexity of this type of business have given rise to administrative problems both at Standard Life and across the entire industry . |
| 11 | Visitors with imagination have given names to other limestone formations here : a pedestal of rock at the entrance to the inner chamber is variously known as The Pulpit and the Bishop 's Throne , and the facing wall has a projection with a profile likened to the map of Wales . |
| 12 | IN Washington 's superb bookshops , which stay open all night and serve coffee and bagels , tomes on the Cold War have given way to a new theme : the prospect of a trade war between the three great economic blocs — Japan , the US and the European Community . |
| 13 | One of these was Tom Potter , a colliery director from Nottinghamshire , whose evidence seem to contain reference to the seed that grew into Foxton Lift . |
| 14 | In most happy marriages , husband and wife continue to make time to be with each other , and to understand each other . |
| 15 | The Campaign for Resource is a campaign to ensure that industry and the nation as a whole continue to have access to leading edge research and a high calibre workforce , which this University can and should provide . |
| 16 | POLICE on both sides of the border have issued warnings to elderly folk to be on their guard against thieves posing as Water Board inspectors . |
| 17 | On 12 May Thorpe J. granted the local authority leave to transfer W. to a unit specialising in eating disorders and for treatment to be administered to her there without her consent . |
| 18 | Staff in the health authority have paid tribute to the enthusiastic way Mr Tholen approached his job . |
| 19 | But when such circumstances do arise , questions with respect to the appropriate procedure to be followed in requiring drivers to provide specimens of blood or urine have given rise to some difficulties in the courts and it is to the resolution of those questions that this appeal is directed . |
| 20 | The first XI have gained promotion to the 1st Division of the four Counties League . |
| 21 | Hence , although the Council can claim that their guidance documents have contained some reference to equal opportunities and that guidelines from the Secretary of State have included reference to issues of gender and the needs of ethnic minority children there does appear , however , in the words of Shah ( 1990:315 ) to be no consensus . |
| 22 | In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) . |
| 23 | As most average families are in the bottom 60 per cent. , does not that show that the Government have given money to the rich at the expense of ordinary families ? |
| 24 | Above all , the theorists would seek to show the social psychological dynamics by which the unique features of advanced capitalist society have given rise to the particularities of modern consciousness , or social representations . |
| 25 | Both trampling and weathering have produced modifications to the bone assemblages studied , but neither has brought about large scale breakage of bone . |
| 26 | But the growing employment of women in the modern sectors of the economy and the declining ability to enforce post-partum abstinence in the conditions or urban life have curtailed adherence to these traditions . |
| 27 | With Dominique Bozo in overall charge of the Centre Pompidou and Germain Viatte now heading the Musée National d'Art Moderne ( MNAM ) and the Centre de Création Industrielle ( CCI ) , expressions of concern at the lack of space have given way to wide-ranging debate on the future role of the entire Beaubourg cultural complex . |
| 28 | Even at the birth of the Christ , representatives of the Gentile world appear to pay homage to the new-born infant king . |
| 29 | Ian Branfoot 's head is being screamed for by Southampton 's fans and Neil Warnock 's heady times at Notts County have given way to days of whine and losses . |
| 30 | Issues which were to influence subsequent events and eventually lead to a national curriculum are specified : first , that the curriculum is overcrowded and the timetable overloaded ; secondly , that pupils who move from one school to another are penalized because of curricular variations between schools ; thirdly , that curricular arrangements within each school tend to give rise to unequal curricular opportunities for pupils ; fourthly , that the school curriculum is not sufficiently relevant for life in a modern industrial society ; and fifthly , that there are evident weaknesses in existing assessment procedures and methods of recording pupil progress . |