Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [art] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northamptonshire mansion reopens to the public this weekend for the first time since the death of his father . |
| 2 | Conventional electricity generation loses to the atmosphere enough heat for the needs of every home , office and factory in the country . |
| 3 | At the end of the sixth book of The Faerie Queene , Spenser alludes to the troubles some of his earlier work has caused through slanders which provoked ‘ a mighty Peres displeasure ’ . |
| 4 | A ‘ FLYING squad ’ of experts takes to the road this month and early May to help East Anglian farmers tackle probably their most important office job for years . |
| 5 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 6 | — Following in Mama 's footsteps , Mandi Scott , daughter of clubland 's Queen of Song , Wendy Kay , takes to the boards this month . |
| 7 | But that applies to every electron all of the time — and to everything else as well , from quarks to quasars ! |
| 8 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 9 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 10 | Mood in such circumstances , however , generally refers to a state such as depression typically continuing for relatively long periods of time , often hours or days . |
| 11 | The word person or ‘ persona ’ refers to the face each one of us puts on the world . |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 13 | lives in a caravan in Mendlesham and drives to the stables each day . |
| 14 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 15 | The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor . |
| 16 | Geevor , the third biggest mine , brings to the surface some 800 tonnes annually . |
| 17 | The will-they , won't-they teaser comes to a clinch this evening when Sharon 's husband Grant goes out on the booze again . |
| 18 | Said I 've been sorting the notes out , I 've put them in order back in , so that when he comes to the window all that the office staff got ta do is look through , like we was told to do |
| 19 | THE band Disraeli Gears are to appear on Radio One when the show comes to the North-East this week . |