Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 2 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 3 | This last suggestion might be taken more seriously as the working week gets shorter and if the pay penalties for devoting time to caring were reduced . |
| 4 | Then he turned up and explained his ideas about bringing electricity to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 5 | But he 's obviously genuine about bringing democracy to Zimbala . |
| 6 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 7 | The head also needs to reward those who are on the right lines through drawing attention to successes , prominently displaying thank you letters on the staff room notice board , using time to convince , cheer , direct , push and urge . |
| 8 | The ascertainment of the nearest approximation of cost gives rise to two problems : ( a ) The selection of an appropriate method for relating costs to stocks ( such as job costing , batch costing , process costing , standard costing ) . |
| 9 | WE 'VE had leaves on the line , snow , iced-up points and now BR in the South East has come up with a new one for explaining delays to trains : Heavy morning dew . |
| 10 | Finance company personal loan Rather like bank personal loan , for say £300 to £3,000 , but often not specifying a particular purchase and arranged by post ( or through ‘ money shop ’ ) with finance company ; interest rate usually fixed at start . |
| 11 | Some doubts about ascribing identity to meanings |
| 12 | They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all . |
| 13 | Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on . |
| 14 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 15 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 16 | After applying balm to Cleo 's face , Apanage took them to Dratslinger 's workroom . |
| 17 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 18 | After coaching back to back French Open champions Higueras gained deserved notoriety . |
| 19 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 20 | After saying goodbye to Auntie , I fetch the basket and stool from the utility and take the sheets in , thinking Ma will be even more upset if she sees her clean washing all splashed with red . |
| 21 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 22 | Three days after giving birth to Caroline , Mrs Cossins had a second sterilisation operation . |
| 23 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 24 | The royal rebel caused ructions in Monaco after giving birth to son Louis Robert last week . |
| 25 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 26 | Three weeks after posting copies to Manchester 's social services and education departments , the North-west regional health authority and South Manchester health district , Mrs Finni had had no replies . |
| 27 | After jumping 2½p to 20½p the shares closed at 17p , valuing the group at around £50m . |
| 28 | Genevieve ( 1953 ) , one of Rank 's biggest successes of the decade , was directed by another old Ealing hand , Henry Cornelius , who left the studio after making Passport to Pimlico . |
| 29 | Hence we refer to the process used for writing non-words to dictation as ‘ subword level phonological-to-orthographic conversion ’ . |
| 30 | The procedure for seeking access to information and the circumstances in which it may be denied are discussed at Chapter 16 , 10 . |