Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 2 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 3 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 4 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 5 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 6 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 7 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 8 | The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , we asked that question to Redd Harvest of the T-H-R agency as the Op was on her way to face a cadre of the Trap Door Spiders . ’ |
| 10 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 11 | The shares tumbled another 40p to 560p . |
| 12 | She took a bus into the shopping centre , stopped to buy Bridget some flowers , and got another bus to Woodstock Road . |
| 13 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 14 | Years later ( 5 April 1710 , described in a contract of ‘ vente d'heritages ’ ) Jean sold this property to Nicolas ( dit Colin ) Hotteterre . |
| 15 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 16 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 17 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 18 | Fish : The EC sought some access to EFTA country territorial waters , Spain having originally proposed a 90,000 tonne annual cod catch quota . |
| 19 | A Soviet spy network in Tokyo , led by the German Richard Sorge , revealed this information to Moscow , enabling vast numbers of Siberian troops to be released for the Western front and prevent the fall of Moscow . |
| 20 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 21 | Dr Joe Hendron said the parties should return to the talks table without delay — and he made this point to Stormont Minister Sir John Wheeler yesterday . |
| 22 | The practitioners of different disciplines within the life sciences exploited the general idea of evolution in different ways , some of which bore little resemblance to Darwin 's own approach . |
| 23 | By contrast , the Saigon club scene , shot in the Fort Benning Officer 's Club , bore little resemblance to reality . |
| 24 | The meal bore some resemblance to Filippo 's formula ; after about six courses you realise you 're still in the thick of the antipasto . |
| 25 | When he reported this encounter to Control , Donleavy hit the roof and summoned him to Frankfurt . |
| 26 | The general deferred this honour to Miles , before Joseph stepped back to deliver his speech of surrender : |
| 27 | For example , a male tutor from the local college used this technique to cajole some of the male users into joining the bridging course . |
| 28 | These variations were so great that he questioned the applicability of formulae which used this approach to sampling . |
| 29 | Unionist publications also devoted much attention to Asquith 's Honours Lists , and in October 1912 Our Flag listed thirty-nine " Radical Plutocrats " , of which twenty-three had been ennobled by the Liberals — " so far " . |
| 30 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |