Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unclear whether battery can be committed by omission , but it is certainly possible to convict of battery someone who accidentally causes the unlawful application of force to another and then intentionally desists from stopping that application of force . |
| 2 | The long march to 1945 and beyond had truly been halted . |
| 3 | We also missed the quay , transferring immorally expensive cameras and equipment from one rolling boat to another and moderately expensive crew ( £700 worth a day ) until all the camera angles were covered . |
| 4 | The reduced number of banks participating in venture capital financing has meant a dramatic reduction in the availability of debt , and gearing levels demanded by the banks who do participate have fallen sharply from 7:1 or 8:1 at the height of the boom to 1:1 or less . |
| 5 | This is an alternative to 4.1 and again it requires the Vendor to anticipate what additional rights the Business should be authorised to use . |
| 6 | There were no more dances in the balere to distract me ; partly because it was difficult to move freely from one village to another and partly because the evening curfew still applied . |
| 7 | And of course the authority was glad to get shot of them , and then the tramps , they used to go round the country , and they used to walk from one village to another and mainly , people who had arrived in Ipswich casual ward , had previously been the night at Stowmarket . |
| 8 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 9 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 10 | Yet the differentiation , once again , was conducted by reference to theological as well as empirical principles . |
| 11 | We lost the Greater London Council to Labour and ultimately to Ken Livingstone , and we managed to lose safe Parliamentary seats at both Crosby and Croydon . |
| 12 | Other ways of making life more interesting for the housebound are the occasional holidays in the homes of various members of the family ; also offering to help them to entertain their friends in their own home to more than just a cup of tea , by arranging to take a pre-cooked , easily served meal round to them beforehand . |
| 13 | You could be right , for many people have drifted from one job to another and finally ended up in public relations . |
| 14 | The idiots sending these devices are a danger to more than just the public . |
| 15 | Thus , for several weeks both Monty and I were relieved of any responsibility in the matter and turned our attention to other and more profitable activities ; but I was foolish in the expectation that I should long be left in peace . |
| 16 | Third , although Schrager and Short 's definition directs attention to physical as well as economic consequences of corporate crime , it neglects important victims , namely other corporations and organizations ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 17 | This type occurs where the accused represents the truth to another but afterwards the facts change and the accused does not inform the victim that the facts have changed . |
| 18 | One of the Regional Council 's reasons for refusal of planning permission is that the proposed development falls outside the areas identified for office use in the Lothian Region Structure Plan 1985 and can not be justified on prime land in the Green Belt as there is no essential overriding need , given the supply of office floorspace currently available , under construction or with outstanding planning permission , which is more than sufficient to satisfy development needs within the Structure Plan period to 1996 and beyond . |
| 19 | After raising his score to twenty-nine and now uniquely entitled to wear the ribbons of both the DSO and the DFC , each with two silver rosettes denoting two bars , Braham 's luck ran out over Denmark on 25 June 1944 . |
| 20 | Do you want a lid to this or just holding it Tim ? |
| 21 | Individual attributions of guilt point to left or right often according to the ideological standpoint of the scholar — and , it must be stressed , the vision of history which this implies . |
| 22 | The danger is that there will be a careful selection both of members with primary allegiance to different and even hostile interests , and of officials preoccupied with their careers . |
| 23 | Cases may be transferred from one family proceedings court to another and also to a county court care centre and ultimately the High Court in certain circumstances . |
| 24 | After a period of subjection to Assyrian and later neo-Babylonian rulers , Persia saw the emergence in the first millennium BC of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 25 | Anybody who dreamt of surrendering that basic safeguard at this time would be doing the gravest disservice to current and possibly to future generations in Britain . |
| 26 | More significant for Scandinavia was its retreat in 1950 back to limited and relatively non-controversial sectoral coordination at the regional level . |
| 27 | Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it |
| 28 | Cos I boiled kettle at quarter to five cos normally she gets here about five |
| 29 | They have they have extended from six o'clock till quarter to seven and then |
| 30 | I 've got the baby-sitter coming in erm coming in quite early erm quarter to seven and then |