Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you set up WordPerfect so she , with a blank screen for Sarah to type on . |
| 2 | The report , originally prepared last year by the government 's National Audit Office as a quick swot of the services offered by London 's top galleries and museums , has just been circulated as a final draft ; it is due for submission to Parliament shortly . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them places where they have rooms for drivers to kip down for the night . |
| 4 | Quoting reseller sources briefed by the company , Computer Reseller News is looking for Sun to phase out the ELC and Sparcstation 2 to make room for new Tsunami-run IPCs and IPXs . |
| 5 | International markets , the EC and the New European Economic Area in particular , are seen by many as key expansion areas , and Society efforts to remove regulations restricting the rights of solicitors to practice abroad continued . |
| 6 | [ 13 ] showed that although the dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is completely described by a single exponential , the time constant varies according to the starting ratio of drug to DNA so that the dissociation becomes slower at higher occupancy . |
| 7 | After 300 yds , by electricity post , cross neck of field to stile ahead . |
| 8 | Critics of opponents to development frequently accuse them of being blinded by nostalgia and motivated by personal vested interest . |
| 9 | Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position . |
| 10 | Denton has classified the various forms of aid to industry under three headings : general incentives provided under various programmes to all industrial firms in all parts of the country ; industrial restructuring which again is universal in scope and geographical area and which is intended to encourage industrial efficiency ; and regional aid which is limited to firms in the deprived regions of the country . |
| 11 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 12 | Lack of attention to detail below |
| 13 | Its stylistic complexity was attributed by John of Salisbury to vanity rather than subtlety . |
| 14 | The Japanese thus gained a couple of years to phase out their use of drift-nets , and retained the hope that their research scientists might be able to hide the truth about drift-net fishing . |
| 15 | A senior and much respected civil servant with relevant experience has offered to give me his ideas , agreeing that ethics represents an issue of importance to date not covered by either BAIE or IPR . |
| 16 | 8.10.4 Attractions of delay to party ultimately liable |
| 17 | So a list of questions to winkle out the facts not covered by the application form or c.v . |
| 18 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll take a glass of water to bed later , but that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 21 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 22 | Re M is important as it clarifies the law on privilege and social work records but it is important to consider it within the wider context of access to information generally . |
| 23 | But there was no fluke about his victory in the French 2,000 Guineas when showing a fine burst of acceleration to bolt in by a length and a half from Bin Ajwaad . |
| 24 | But there was no fluke about his victory in the French 2,000 Guineas when showing a fine burst of acceleration to bolt in by a length and a half from Bin Ajwaad . |
| 25 | By introduction of glass , he wrote , relation of background to foreground radically altered . |
| 26 | The sale of important Attic vases on 28 April is one of the last major twentieth-century collections in private hands of sixth- to fifth-century BC vases likely to be dispersed . |
| 27 | The UDF on Feb. 25 staged its largest show of strength to date when it rallied as many as 200,000 supporters in central Sofia ( the capital ) to protest against what it labelled as BCP efforts to " torpedo " the work of the round table . |
| 28 | He is admiring of the soldiers ' courage but not persuaded by their beliefs : training people to sacrifice themselves produces not altruism but a fascinated following of others to death not so much to help but merely to follow ( p. 88 ) . |
| 29 | That might be so in the case of other illness or disaster but in addictive disease total commitment regardless of cost to self actually works against recovery . |
| 30 | 8.16.2 Interpreted to give benefit of doubt to party adversely |