Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 2 | Inner City 's singer has flown into Detroit to listen to the new single . |
| 3 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 4 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 5 | Well I could on Tuesday to get to the normal run . |
| 6 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 7 | Xhibition 93 has managed to get COSE to agree to a question-and-answer session by application developers and computing managers during the Xhibition Executive Conference in San Jose . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 9 | It was in an educational context that I met Jo , inviting her to Scotland to contribute to an annual series of photography events and workshops for women . |
| 10 | In the UK it remains for the CAA to revert to a voluntary incident reporting system in place of the current mandatory one . |
| 11 | Mr Bond has pleaded not guilty to a charge he violated the Securities Code by inducing businessman Brian Coppin to contribute to the failed 1987 rescue of merchant bank Rothwells while concealing a £7 million fee . |
| 12 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 13 | The company relocated its premises to Huntingdon and asked Mr Rose to move to the new premises . |
| 14 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 15 | Changes in the longer term included ( i ) the halving of the number of armed forces to about 31,000 over two years ; ( ii ) electoral reform ; ( iii ) land reform ; ( iv ) the creation of a consultative body , comprising representatives of government , employers and workers , to set policy for economic and social development ; and ( v ) the creation of a mechanism to allow the FMLN to contribute to the national reconstruction plan . |
| 16 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 17 | The sacrifices described in the Old Testament could never effect any such atonement but were instituted by God to point to a coming all-sufficient sacrifice which would fully atone for sin . |
| 18 | North asked the Second Channel to act as his courier ‘ as a personal favour for the cause we both believe in ’ ; the note was a draft of a speech for Rafsanjani to make to the Iranian parliament . |
| 19 | NEW proposals to be put by West Germany to the European Community summit in Strasbourg this weekend will significantly increase pressures on Britain to agree to a full European Monetary Union . |
| 20 | This effectively allows any presentation graphics program on the Macintosh to talk to the professional film recorders such as the QCR and beyond by converting the PICT files generated on the Macintosh into the native language of the film recorder . |
| 21 | BRITAIN was yesterday accused of undermining international efforts to combat the greenhouse effect , as Mrs Thatcher flew to New York to declare to the United Nations her concern about the environment and reveal a number of British initiatives . |
| 22 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 23 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 24 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 25 | The man in charge of the murder inquiry , Det Supt Albert Kirby , flew down to London to appeal to the public live on the programme . |
| 26 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 27 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 28 | That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement . |
| 29 | Was it conscientiously possible , in such circumstances , for the Archbishop of Canterbury to recommend to the prime minister that the Archbishop of York should succeed him ? |