Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those of you who feel the need to get away from it all , Edinburgh is uniquely placed to provide access to the untamed magnificence of the Highlands , a mere hop and a skip up the A9 . |
| 2 | The UK government is expected to halt funding to the Coal Research Establishment ( CRE ) at Cheltenham , part of British Coal and recognised as a world leader in research into " clean " coal technology . |
| 3 | That was why the Congress of People 's Deputies was being recommended to give priority to the government 's report on the economy . |
| 4 | She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’ |
| 5 | The ANC rejected the plans as being specifically designed to deny power to the black majority . |
| 6 | As a result , the 1974 Housing Act introduced Housing Action Areas ( HAAs ) , designed to give priority to the improvement of areas for which GIAs are not relevant , where poor physical condition of housing is combined with social stress and deprivation . |
| 7 | Given that revolutionary literature is designed to give pre-eminence to the construction of a new culture , a new man , a new reading public , drawn primarily from the working class , there arises an obvious clash of interests between the revolutionary writer and the bourgeois reading public . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 9 | For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government . |
| 10 | Placing Irigaray 's work in the context of Freudian and post-Freudian theory , Whitford suggests that Irigaray 's apparently very traditional and essentialist use of symbolism has a strategic function , like that of Derrida 's analyses , designed to draw attention to the underpinnings of Western metaphysics , in order to undermine them . |
| 11 | Er and they are merely designed to draw attention to the broad corridors which |
| 12 | The company most committed to deliver cocoa to the market is Sucres et Denrees , the French commodity trading house . |
| 13 | But the Committee then goes on to assert : ‘ Sexual intercourse is an intimate act between man and woman , and a man is expected to have regard to the question whether the woman is consenting to the act or not . ’ |
| 14 | Usually , it is assumed that Clovis must be the monarch in question , but if so the failure to name him is peculiar : his reputation might have been expected to add lustre to the code . |
| 15 | As one of Mr Major 's closest friends — he holidays with him every summer in Spain — Mr Garel-Jones was expected to get promotion to the Cabinet in the summer . |
| 16 | An area of 310 sq km of pristine French Guianan rainforest is to be flooded by a dam designed to supply hydroelectricity to the European Space Agency 's rocket construction and launch site at Kourou . |
| 17 | He visits Satis House for Estella 's sake , and knows that Drummle has been killed , and in the evening mist he sees her ( she has also come to say farewell to the building ) . |
| 18 | On this page you will find an outline of the two preliminary awards designed to facilitate entry to the general SVQ and SVQ frameworks . |
| 19 | The centre-piece of the study is interviews with a stratified random sample of 120 employees of all levels and departments , designed to test commitment to the firm and motivation to work , alongside opinions about changes actual and in prospect . |
| 20 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclist have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
| 21 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclists have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
| 22 | The studies , which examined adult workers in industries using lead , blamed poor enforcement of laws designed to limit exposure to the metal , together with ignorance of the laws among industrial managers . |
| 23 | 9.15.3 any notice or document shall also be sufficiently served if sent by telex [ telephonic facsimile transmission or any other means of electronic transmission ] to the party to be served ( or its solicitors where 9.15.2 applies ) and that service shall be deemed to be made on the day of transmission if transmitted before 4 pm on a Working Day but otherwise on the next following Working Day ( as defined above ) and in this clause " party " includes the Guarantor These provisions are designed to introduce certainty to the service of notices and documents and , unless a particular tenant takes exception to any aspect , they do not seem unreasonable . |
| 24 | ANDY ROXBURGH has decided to restore order to the chaotic build-up to tomorrow night 's World Cup qualifying tie with Malta by naming Aberdeen 's Alex McLeish as Scotland 's captain — two years after he last played an international . |
| 25 | Of much greater significance , however , is the skyline of the fells rising to the east , where above the 2000-ft contour and barely a mile apart two important rivers have their beginnings — the Eden , destined to flow north to the Solway Firth , and the Ure , bound eastwards for Wensleydale and ultimately the North Sea . |
| 26 | Right now Mr Hussein finds it convenient to pose as a conciliator prepared to grant autonomy to the Kurds he has displaced and , in relations with the rest of the world , to let bygones be bygones . |
| 27 | The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace . |
| 28 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 29 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 30 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |