Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After introducing it to an 18″ x 12″ aquarium I soon found it had re-arranged the substrate to form a small barricade at the front of the tank . |
| 2 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 3 | The NIO wants to know what has sparked the increase and ways of bringing it to an end , said the source . |
| 4 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 5 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 6 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 7 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 8 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 9 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 10 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
| 11 | They have a very distinctive taste and are not to be wasted by offering them to an indifferent chef to prepare . ’ |