Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 2 | Allowing the child to muck about , or does it mean free to express himself in his own childlike way , and not ape the adult 's way . |
| 3 | And religious leaders played their part too , with Imams preaching the call to immunisation from every one of Turkey 's 54,000 mosques . |
| 4 | HADEN MacLellan Holdings , the engineering and automated manufacturing systems group put together by Philip Ling , chairman , is maintaining the payout to shareholders at 8p , with a 5p final on July 1 , despite a 38 p.c. tumble in profits last year to £14.6m pre-tax . |
| 5 | Quite rightly , Jacobs called the $100,00 and went all-in , the rest of his pile building the pot to $1,062,000 . |
| 6 | Getting the government ‘ off the backs of the people ’ by offsetting the incentives to leisure and evasion would offer something for everyone . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough Council has joined the growing campaign to urge British Steel to keep using the Redmire to Redcar freight rail link in order to prevent thousands more lorry journeys through Teesside . |
| 8 | By using the moon to time their breeding , the palolo worms ensure that they all spawn simultaneously . |
| 9 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 10 | For the first months of the war , therefore , Franco proceeded with caution as he sought ways of using the conflict to Spain 's and his own advantage . |
| 11 | This filtering process can be applied as soon as data becomes available if necessary , since all components are using the Chart to post results . |
| 12 | Rectangular Cartesian coordinates can be assigned at O using the tangents to plus ON itself . |
| 13 | The shoeing of the horse and repair of the cart are simply ways of intervening in small group work , using the role to value and focus it . |
| 14 | Although the use of outside contractors will speed up the regulatory process , critics have expressed concern at using the industry to police itself . |
| 15 | Jane dreaded broaching the subject to Christopher . |
| 16 | I thought it over very carefully before broaching the subject to Nigel . |
| 17 | In 1986 the government launched a second scheme under the title of ‘ Helping the Community to Care ’ . |
| 18 | Drawing the pattern to scale , and the effect of the wind on turns will help with the flying . |
| 19 | Hugh Clopton , a mercer , erected the bridge at Stratford-upon-Avon that still bears his name ; Sir William Horne , salter , left 500 marks for repairing the road to Cambridge ; Sir Thomas White , Merchant Taylor , founded St John 's College , Oxford , and others endowed grammar schools at Holt , Macclesfield , Wolverhampton and many other places . |
| 20 | Underlining the commitment to disarmament and arms control , the declaration called on all member states " to prevent the proliferation in all its aspects of all weapons of mass destruction " and " to avoid excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfers of arms " . |
| 21 | Other goals for Ontos this year include , introducing Microsoft Corp Windows 3.0 client support for Ontos DB in June and porting the software to Windows NT . |
| 22 | All in all , the technology could be said to be qualitatively transforming the threat to privacy which information systems , even manually sorted card indexes , have always posed . |
| 23 | WHEN the first customers step through the main entrance of Safeway 's new multi-million pound store at Stewartfield in East Kilbride , the last thing on their minds will be the work which has gone into bringing the building to completion . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal supported the decision at first instance to leave all four children at home but recognised that the local authority had been acting quite properly in bringing the case to court . |
| 25 | Legal experts put the cost of bringing the case to court at more than £8,000 and Mr Sharod admitted his own legal fees topped £2,000 . |
| 26 | In 1985 he was charged with other offences which were to be tried in the High Court of Hong Kong , but the prosecution encountered difficulties in bringing the case to trial . |
| 27 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 28 | The man given the task of bringing the legend to life is Chelmsford-born Alex Bourne who is relishing this unabashed , foot-stomping , hand-clapping piece of rock and roll history . |
| 29 | Every lot sold , bringing the total to $15.8 million ( £8.8 million ) , a record session for a French furniture sale in America . |
| 30 | He was allowed another £100 for masters ( bringing the total to £350 a year ) . |