Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to senior Government sources , relations with the French are now so bad Mr Major and Mr Mitterrand do not talk to each other . |
| 2 | The future was still uncertain enough for Morley to declare ‘ U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 3 | U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 4 | Looted by Sadam Hussain in September 1990 during the Gulf War , the contents of the al-Sabah collection of Islamic art the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya have now returned to Kuwait . |
| 5 | But changes in the details of the assessment of basic expenditure needs through the GRE have also led to remarkable ( and indefensible ) instability over recent years . |
| 6 | Markets in Mexico , North Africa , south America and Indonesia have all contributed to a colourful jumble ; the tall red whirlygig in the sitting room , for example , comes from Brazil . |
| 7 | Although the Christian faith is no longer at the heart of the culture of this land , and the Church is peripheral to the lives of many people , mid-twentieth-century British composers such as Vaughan Williams , Walton , Britten , Berkeley , Mathias and Leighton have all contributed to the choral repertoire . |
| 8 | With the support of the likes of Prince Charles and Yehudi Menuhin , the appeal directors hope it wo n't be long before the they can guarantee that the Malvern Hills will forever echo to the sound of Elgar . |
| 9 | A case of Andy goes to Hollywood or , in the event of blanks being fired , Scotland do not go to America next year for the World Cup finals . |
| 10 | And then the Norfolk Baileys do n't speak to the Lincolnshire Baileys . |
| 11 | Blairgowrie , Largs and Aberdeen have all applied to An Comunn Gaidhealach to stage the event . |
| 12 | The Fabians have now written to all the contenders assuring them that the decision was made on a purely commercial basis . |
| 13 | Volunteers from Spokes have now contributed to a number of path-building projects , and for most of these I have acted as the co-ordinator . |
| 14 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 15 | AINTREE racecourse yesterday leapt to the defence of the £5-a-race flagman accused of bearing the major blame for this year 's Grand National fiasco . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards the local Fine Gael cumann also objected to it . |
| 17 | At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable . |
| 18 | Although a gastrocolonic response might be documented by placing a catheter in the sigmoid colon , it should be noted that many HAPCs do not propagate to the distal colon and would be missed by studies of the sigmoid and rectum alone . |
| 19 | There were no grounds for redrawing borders ; ‘ The Germans of Switzerland and Alsace do not desire to be reunited to Germany any more than the French in Belgium and Switzerland wish to become attached politically to France ’ . |
| 20 | B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly . |
| 21 | The Group 's long-standing excavations at Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire have greatly contributed to this work ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 22 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
| 23 | We must all hope fervently that a peaceful solution will be found sooner rather than later , that lives will be saved and that great cities such as Dubrovnik do not fall to be perished , as others have . |
| 24 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 25 | The BBC do n't like to be kept waiting . ’ |
| 26 | And Darren come in spoke to me and he says oh I Danny . |
| 27 | Irrigation schemes in other parts of Shandong as well as the neighbouring provinces of Heenan and Hebei have also proved to be less efficient than originally envisaged ( Leeming 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Could I say that the actual issues that go to the House of Lords do not relate to the earlier events to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 29 | The SARs do not apply to other companies and are therefore less wide in their application than the Code . |
| 30 | JIMMY Young 's friends have been intrigued to receive a change of address card announcing that ‘ Alicia and Jimmy Young have now moved to Chiswick ’ . |