Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rockfall has again altered the starts to routes in the Gullible/Mitre area at Chair Ladder . |
| 2 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 3 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 4 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 5 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 6 | We 've devolved the money to schools , but they 've got to spend most of it back with the council here . |
| 7 | The woman who died was a heavy smoker and the Family Planning Association here points out that the French health ministry had stressed the dangers to smokers . |
| 8 | Keith said : ‘ If a wave had caught it it would have smashed the craft to pieces . |
| 9 | He told the inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that he had reported the matter to supervisors and a new radio system was planned . |
| 10 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've torn the place to pieces and could n't even find a handbag . |
| 12 | Surely it would have torn the sheets to pieces , synthetic or otherwise ? ’ |
| 13 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 14 | Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches . |
| 15 | Networking has also led to the rise of ‘ client-server ’ designs , where ‘ client ’ terminals , such as PCs , are fed the answers to questions by ‘ server ’ data-stores . |
| 16 | " Margaret Thatcher 's done no favours to women . |
| 17 | WORLD Cup organisers have granted an amnesty to players who received yellow cards for fouls and other offences during qualifying matches . |
| 18 | WORLD Cup organisers have granted an amnesty to players who received yellow cards for fouls and other offences during qualifying matches . |
| 19 | But then erm they have n't got the guts to things . |
| 20 | A little firm just down the road had developed QDOS — Quick and Dirty Operating System — which looked just right for IBM 's PC. $100,000 later , Microsoft had bought the rights to QDOS , renamed it MS-DOS — Microsoft Disk Operating System , no frivolous acronyms for Big Blue , please — and licensed it to IBM . |
| 21 | So far , three production companies claim to have bought the rights to subjects ranging from the ‘ Third Man ’ scandal of Kim Philby to the assassination of Leon Trotsky , the Cuban Missile Crisis and the attempted assassination of Winston Churchill during a Second World War summit in Teheran . |
| 22 | Following the annexation Iraq ordered all foreign embassies in Kuwait to move to Baghdad within two weeks and announced that , for security reasons , it had closed the borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 23 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 24 | Yet , says Matthew Paris with relish , he did not deserve to be rescued in this way , for he had shown no mercy to others when he himself had been an officer of the Forest . |
| 25 | Financial adviser Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown has produced a guide to Gilts which he will send free to Assets readers who call 0272 741 309 . |
| 26 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 27 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 28 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 29 | Dick has had a ministry to businessmen for many years . |
| 30 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |