Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : Broadview is well situated for visits to Somerset , Devon and Dorset . |
| 3 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 4 | At the same time , politicians were increasingly pressed for answers to problems against which the measured , patrician tones of the lay administrator seemed amateur and outdated . |
| 5 | These are not entirely satisfactory as they are simply crude adaptations of the basic forms in which a specification is substituted for references to bills of quantities . |
| 6 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 7 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 8 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 9 | The Oxford Record Linkage Study does not collect information about prescriptions but data are collected about admissions to hospital for peptic ulcer . |
| 10 | Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch . |
| 11 | To teachers , it is of particular interest not only because it provides a model which might be applied with modifications to discourse in general , but also because the discourse type it chose to analyse was school lessons . |
| 12 | Jo 's hair was towel dried and put into sections , the mixture was then applied from roots to ends whilst it was still warm . |
| 13 | On the same day Richard Gough was transferred from Spurs to Rangers for £1.5 million . |
| 14 | Tim Lawrence has been transferred from Maps to Music . |
| 15 | Arab traders exploited the winds of the Indian Ocean to knit together the Persian Gulf , the coast of east Africa and the Malabar coast of south India , where goods could be transferred from dhows to junks bound for Canton . |
| 16 | It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice . |
| 17 | Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower . |
| 18 | Surplus of PmRMPc has been transferred from consumers to producers and total surplus has fallen to ARMPc . |
| 19 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
| 20 | If the ostriches were indeed infected with BSE by this route , it would be the first recorded case of the disease being transmitted from cattle to birds [ see Eds passim ] . |
| 21 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 22 | In effect , the intellectual centre of gravity slowly moved from parties to pressure groups and a new theory emerged that quickly gained wide acceptance . |
| 23 | Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends . |
| 24 | These messages , it is widely believed , can give information about the future , the remote past or things taking place in distant parts of the world ; at a more down-to-earth level , psychologists and especially psychoanalysts think that analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person 's mental state , and have concocted numerous systems relating objects or events seen in dreams to aspects of the human psyche . |
| 25 | The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax . |
| 26 | Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system . |
| 27 | Reference has been made to services to King 's Cross for passengers who will travel from the north and other parts of England and from the continent . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make provisions comparable to those made to haemophiliacs to non-haemophiliacs infected with HIV as a result of national health service blood or tissue transfers . |
| 29 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 30 | Sometimes we get feedback : in the 1991 campaign on Morocco , over 10,000 members sent birthday cards to King Hassan containing a message about human rights ; as part of our campaign for the inclusion of human rights within the National Curriculum , over 3000 letters were written by members to MPs and ministers . |