Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 2 | As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 . |
| 3 | It had no requirements for audit , no requirements to submit accounts to the Charity Commissioners and no requirements to issue accounts to the public . |
| 4 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 5 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 6 | In particular , a mechanism was required to channel funds to the UK as compensation for the effects of CAP , from which other member states benefited disproportionately . |
| 7 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
| 8 | As soon as he knows about it he goes into automatic " crisis mode " , remaining cool and placing top priority on obtaining the key facts and assessing the options to minimize damage to the company and its people while resolving the problem . |
| 9 | So , from their viewpoint , management 's job is to use the factors at its disposal to provide returns to the shareholders , but also to provide returns to employees . |
| 10 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 11 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 12 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 13 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 14 | Former mayor Marion Barry , who had recently been convicted of cocaine possession [ see pp. 37647 ; 37769 ] , failed in his attempt to secure election to the city council , winning only 17 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | At Straiton , however , a combination of the grout injection method and the placing of a heavy-duty geotextile membrane at rockhead level was used to provide support to the road embankment over the limestone and Pentland oil shale workings . |
| 16 | However , if the fish begin to suffer damage to the scales , which could result in an outbreak of fungus , I would advise you to remove the Plec . |
| 17 | Clean drinking water is supplied and this is as important as a varied diet to encourage birds to the garden . |
| 18 | The team , led by Margit Laimer , injected a gene into apricot tree cells which earlier work had shown to provide resistance to the plum pox virus which causes Sharka disease affecting , among others , apricots , peaches and plums . |
| 19 | Rule 41 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules ( HC 169 ) provides : ‘ A man seeking to enter the UK for marriage to a woman settled here and who intends to settle here thereafter ’ will be refused entry clearance unless the ECO is satisfied that it is not the primary purpose of the marriage to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 20 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 21 | Two basic fieldwork strategies were used to obtain entry to the neighbourhoods . |
| 22 | Camdessus also urged the industrialized countries to increase aid to the LDCs and to write off official loans to the poorest countries . |
| 23 | The woman began to bear witness to the Jesus of whom she knew almost nothing , and was physically beaten up for her pains . |
| 24 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 25 | There is a need too to find solutions to the problems of older residential areas , for these are generally less safe than new ones as a consequence of their land uses , building densities , street patterns and traffic composition . |
| 26 | A SCOTLAND-WIDE effort to provide aid to the starving in the famine-stricken countries of Africa was begun yesterday by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 27 | In return , the Bank has guaranteed always to provide funds to the houses if , either as a result of these purchases or as a result of the rest of the monetary sector demanding repayment , the houses should find themselves short . |
| 28 | Short-term political considerations have led governments ( or parts of the central state organization ) to put pressure on supposedly autonomous managements to grant concessions to the unions . |
| 29 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |
| 30 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |