Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kew was criticized for its fidelity to bedding-out and Latin plant names . |
| 2 | A NUMBER of North West names have been honoured for their services to the community or their profession . |
| 3 | Albert Fall arranged for their transfer to the Department of the Interior , and then leased them in secret to two private oil magnates from whom , it was later revealed , he had received substantial bribes — some $300 000 and a herd of pedigree cattle . |
| 4 | Eagle argued that Mr Ferriday had arranged for its money to be used to satisfy his obligations under the sub-underwriting arrangements that Savory Milln had entered into in circumstances in which Savory Milln ought to have known or been put on inquiry that the money had been misappropriated from Eagle . |
| 5 | A burly captain of the guard arranged for our horses to be stabled and immediately took us upstairs into what Agrippa called the Lion Chamber , a long , wooden-panelled room with black and white floor tiles which shimmered in the torch light . |
| 6 | On 22 January 1934 ‘ His Master 's Voice ’ arranged for his house to be connected to the London studio by landlines . |
| 7 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 8 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 9 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 10 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 11 | If a man perceives a necklace placed about his neck to be a noose , then he will expect to be hanged . |
| 12 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 13 | Here Tennyson combines language and imagery to portray an awesomly haunting picture of the boat in which Arthur is to be placed for his trip to a new world . |
| 14 | In addition the status itself carries high prestige : Rosenfeld notes that leader-managers are ‘ respected for their contribution to the communal enterprise as leaders , organizers , managers of farms and shops ’ . |
| 15 | Torn between his longing to be home again , and his ambition to bring back enough money to have made the trip worthwhile , he considered extending his tour to places which had formerly welcomed him , but , in the end , his homesickness proved too much for him , and he left Frankfurt the day after his concert . |
| 16 | ‘ In most cases the auditor is best placed to conduct a thorough and expeditious investigation and need not be torn between his duties to two masters , ’ he adds . |
| 17 | She was followed just a few hours later by Pole who , like Wolsey before him , had remained to the end torn between his allegiance to his monarch and his obedience to his spiritual lord . |
| 18 | Minton had already sat for his portrait to another member of staff , Robert Buhler , for a sensitive , restrained likeness , but , with hindsight , it is Moynihan who fashioned the more telling icon ( Plate 15 ) . |
| 19 | The Russians were thrown back ; and although they retired in reasonably good order , some became trapped with their backs to Bossau Lake , in which a number drowned . |
| 20 | The proposal sought to balance German preference for a politically independent Eurofed , committed in its statutes to an anti-inflation policy , with French and other countries ' preference for greater government control . |
| 21 | The tour is centred around Patterdale Youth Hostel which is ideally located in its proximity to Lake Ullswater where many of the activities take place . |
| 22 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 23 | It may well be the case that the very concept of adjudication as applied to disputes between private individuals will have to be modified in its application to litigation involving public bodies . |
| 24 | In the past the general rules of construction have been modified in their application to exclusion clauses because , in an effort to restrict the use of wide exclusions , the courts have developed particularly strict methods of construing exclusion clauses . |
| 25 | Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm . |
| 26 | No longer breeds Egypt , and now confined in our region to S Iraq . |
| 27 | The factor structure was also similar , though , as might be expected from their exposure to different schemes ( mandatory and voluntary ) , not exactly so . |
| 28 | Mr. Adey had intended to call on the directors to explain his ideas , but he had been ‘ confined by a complaint in his legs and was still obliged to be carried from his sofa to a carriage ’ . |
| 29 | His last appearance was in the Racing Post Chase which Rhyme ‘ n ’ Reason won on his way to National glory . |
| 30 | A BOY aged 16 was last night charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl who was attacked on her way to school . |