Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 2 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 3 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 4 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 5 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 6 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 7 | FACED with cuts of around 15 per cent in support from the government , Manchester University 's Institute of Science and Technology has turned successfully to industry for support . |
| 8 | The same rate will usually be applied both to blockwork in partitions and cavity walls . ) |
| 9 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | In the past two weeks America and its allies have moved closer to war with Iraq . |
| 11 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 12 | The fact that youths from this category have been drawn increasingly to football since the 1960s is put down to possibilities offered for violence , as revealed by the mass media . |
| 13 | He has contributed much to music in the Farnham area during the last 20 years and the many supporters of the Tilford Bach Festival will no doubt want to hear what will be only the second performance of his work . |
| 14 | He was subsequently invited home to dinner by the Daltons . |
| 15 | The Scottish Journal of Geology , by publishing lists of completed research theses , has contributed significantly to communication in geology , as a secondary source , as well as a primary source of research papers . |
| 16 | And these problems are not restricted only to life in Britain , the USA and the rest of the Western world . |
| 17 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 18 | The first little bit of time is spent just to sort of take it easy , take our time , get to know another , and for us to assess the drive . |
| 19 | Garden : Laid mainly to lawn with surrounding flower and shrub borders . |
| 20 | These 14th Century tales are brought vividly to life by the latest audio-visual technology and the voices of the following celebrities : Roy Kinnear , Prunella Scales , Robert Powell , Ronald Pickup , Bernard Cribbins and Geoffrey Banks . |
| 21 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 22 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 23 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 24 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 25 | A copy of the booklet has been sent to Dave Hewis , and he 's gone away to pore over the Definitive Map for his area — we 'll let you know how he gets on . |
| 26 | Clearly this damage caused decompression of the pressurised cabin , but it should not necessarily have led automatically to separation of the horizontal tail surfaces . |
| 27 | and gone straight to aerobics for six o'clock |
| 28 | Opposed then to collaboration with the communist CCOO , the UGT offered a social pact to González after the Socialists won power in 1982 . |
| 29 | Lithuania was admitted formally to membership of the IMF on April 29 , as the 157th member country . |
| 30 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |