Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 2 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 3 | Benjamin Tappan ( Dem. , Ohio ) , 1844 : censured for leaking to the press a presidential message to the Senate . |
| 4 | Hanger was also well supported by his lead , Ray Gaskins who vied in drawing to the jack with his opposite number , new international Palmer . |
| 5 | They should be standing here now as the party of high taxation , and saying sorry to the people of Wiltshire for supporting Kenneth Clarke and his team , for supporting John Major and his team , and they should be saying sorry for the part that we pa played in lying to the electorate at the last general election . |
| 6 | They passed an Emergency Powers Act which , under the guise of doing anything they felt necessary to ‘ relieve the distress of the people ’ , allowed them to do as they pleased without resorting to the Volkstag for authority . |
| 7 | He had , during one terrible crisis , taken off his coat and acted as Sparks to the electricians and stage crew without causing any kind of trouble with the unions . |
| 8 | They allowed for marking to the market , transactions costs ( which differed between institutions and members , and between long and short positions ) , and for capital gains , income and futures taxes . |
| 9 | She confirmed in writing to the company that she intended to return to work on 11 February 1991 . |
| 10 | Huddersfield 's Clem Stephenson had the ability to beat the offside trap of the old-style full-backs ; that it was possible to beat the stopper Chapman showed by pointing to the example of Robert Gurney . |
| 11 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 12 | During the Second World War a similar problem arose with regard to the publication of Alexander Ratcliffe 's Truth about the Jews , brought out by the British Protestant League . |
| 13 | To this end the workshop began by referring to the information leaflet which accompanied the workshop . |
| 14 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 15 | An example of this procedure is the Declaration on border controls and immigration which Britain succeeded in appending to the Single European Act . |
| 16 | It was all too clear that the writers actually understood little about the subject matter , and that the understanding they succeeded in imparting to the public was correspondingly less . |
| 17 | We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities . |
| 18 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 19 | Well you always thought about going to the Beefeater a bu really I suppose it might be better to go today than tomorrow . |
| 20 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 21 | For a moment she thought of staggering to the window again to throw the soup out , but decided against it . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 23 | Dennis Waterman felt like going to the canteen so we took him down , got all the food to the check-out , and then discovered that nobody had any money ! |
| 24 | We saw in regard to the coming of agriculture that the introduction of weaning produced reactions in early agricultural populations which are detectable in their religious , literary and mythical culture . |
| 25 | We knew from listening to the Allied radio that groups of partigiani , partisans , had secretly started to organize them selves , and young men of military age were advised to go into hiding to avoid being sent to Germany or conscripted . |
| 26 | But for her , the challenge in Athene lay in bringing to the attentions of the readers items which were not of specifically female concerns . |
| 27 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 28 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 29 | Very many thanks indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in , and return of the questionnaires . |
| 30 | A very quick note to thank you very much indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in and return of the questionnaires . |