Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister .
2 The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider .
3 At this stage the director revealed news of a letter he had submitted that afternoon to his colleague , verifying that he was serious about resigning .
4 I mean the health different completely but the rest , everybody 's incorporated , each branch to what area they are .
5 On Creag a'Bhancair , Glen Coe , freshly graduated Doctor Grant Farquhar , with assistance from Gary Latter , climbed Up With The Sun — a line that starts next to Uncertain Emotions the heads up and right to the remaining peg on Risk Business , follows that route to its belay and then boldly climbs the arête left of Gone With The Wind crux to belay as for Carnivore .
6 We watched a new entrant to the profession looking around at her colleagues for clues as to how to resolve the tensions , whilst doing as little damage to her integrity ( and her career prospects ) as possible .
7 British Telecommunications Plc yesterday came out fighting in its ‘ we are more liberal than what you are ’ playground war of words with AT&T Co , saying that opposition to its application to offer services in the US attempts to exploit regulatory procedures and distort the issues in order to delay the application , Reuter reports from Washington .
8 The mother who speaks with obvious dread about a forthcoming visit to the dentist may be responsible for unintentionally passing on that fear to her child .
9 And who was top man in that dictat in that dictatorship to which Iron Man Hurd raised his glass !
10 Thus the Treasury faced little opposition to its policies on the basis that the sterling area was in any way harmful to the interests of the colonies .
11 Karen added some milk to her coffee and stirred it .
12 His early rapid promotion was certainly due in some measure to his friendship with King Edward VII .
13 Northern Telecom Ltd 's Greenwich , London-based STC Submarine Systems has added another award to its collection from 1977 , 1983 and 1990 , for the installation of its turnkey submarine telecommunications systems .
14 Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men .
15 Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) .
16 An extremist of the Right he is interested in the welfare of the people only in so far as some concession to their welfare is necessary to enable him to gain and retain dictatorial leadership .
17 A few years later , between 1743 and 1747 , he carried out some improvements to his property , partly remodelling the modest Elizabethan house in the Gothic style and building a picturesque thatched cottage and an octagonal Gothic tower on the nearby escarpment of Edgehill ; and these works at once establish Miller as an important figure in the early history of the Gothic revival .
18 If you are thinking of making some improvements to your home and would like some more information on members in your area , write to :
19 The visitors , in some contrast to their opponents , had the ability to run the ball out of deep defence against the wind .
20 Pigment identification is another field to which XRD analysis is well suited .
21 He wishes to dedicate this story to his father , Roy L Miller , who died on September 6 , 1989 .
22 Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless .
23 Mother 's success was due in some part to her brother , my uncle , Charles Chipchase , who went to London in the 1920s and got into conversation with a newspaper reporter .
24 I 'm off to Leeds this afternoon to my parent 's house .
25 This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes .
26 He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious .
27 Supporters carried lighted torches to welcome him to his 15th and final rally in Taunton last night , giving some credence to his claim that ‘ beacons are being lit all across the West Country ’ .
28 There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements .
29 It would be unkind to attribute this decision to her intention to publish her own diaries . )
30 The only other point I make is reply to Charles I have some sympathy to him Charles in trying to defend the er the indefensible .
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