Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 2 | The company , faced with a bad debt of £40,000 , took drastic action to accommodate the blow to cash flow . |
| 3 | In principle , to target the virus to cell surface molecules which are not recognised by natural viral coat proteins , we could incorporate functional nonviral polypeptides into the virion . |
| 4 | To enable the wife to work , the couple have employed a nanny and have also decided to educate their children at private London day schools . |
| 5 | The auditors also discovered delays and large variations in the department 's reporting procedures which are supposed to alert the ministry to problems . |
| 6 | The effect of an abrupt change , for audiences more experienced than those of 1896 , is to alert the viewer to camera trickery , destroying belief . |
| 7 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 8 | JAPAN 'S second largest car maker , Nissan Motors , has announced it is to close one of its main passenger car factories in Japan and shed 5,000 of its Japanese workforce by 1996 in a bid to restore the company to profitability . |
| 9 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 10 | Thus homoeopathy seeks to restore the organism to harmony and balance . |
| 11 | Some predominantly immune-driven diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , and vasculitides such as Behet 's or Wegener 's granulomatosis also show high serum CRP values , and as with Crohn 's disease these may be used to monitor the response to treatment . |
| 12 | Representatives of 40 countries , of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) and of the EC 's European Investment bank ( EIB ) , met at the Elysée Palace in Paris on May 29 to sign the founding charter of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD or , by its French acronym , BERD ) , a new international organization intended to finance industrial and economic development in the countries of Eastern Europe , using loans , guarantees , equity investment and underwriting to promote the transition to free-market economic systems in those countries . |
| 13 | He got some of the men to carry the leather-worker to Zeinab 's flat . |
| 14 | The bottom of the planes dipped into a cut which connected with the Harborough Arm , about 100 yards east from the Foxton Junction , and crossed by a bridge newly constructed to carry the road to Foxton . |
| 15 | During the long years of war , their numbers slowly dwindled till only the most savage , cunning and ruthless survived to carry the war to Chaos . |
| 16 | The securing of Edinburgh Castle was to have been announced by the firing of three cannon from the ramparts , the signal for a chain of beacons to carry the news to Braemar , 70 miles [ 112 km ] to the north , but in the end the rising went ahead without this symbolic success . |
| 17 | More than 100 children entered the competition , and suggestions for the future included personal helicopters and jet boots to carry the mayor to meetings . |
| 18 | 8 ) It was decided to circulate the paper to members of the Scottish Churches Christian Aid Committee for comment at their meeting on June 9 . |
| 19 | We hold such information in our collections , and our staff have the necessary skills to interpret this information , to recognise its significance , and to impart the knowledge to others throughout Europe . |
| 20 | But to lose the part to George Birkitt … that he found hard to stomach . |
| 21 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 22 | Whether the investors are prepared to support the migration to software remains uncertain . |
| 23 | Kelly declared himself " disgusted " by Thompson 's intervention , which appeared to confer legitimacy upon the position of Operation Rescue , as did the decision by Dick Thornburgh , the US Attorney General , to support the challenge to Kelly 's authority . |
| 24 | SCOTVEC aims to issue the RET to candidates within 2 weeks of results arriving in its office . |
| 25 | About 30 passengers were allowed to leave or slipped out of the back door in Tallinn , leaving some 50 passengers and crew to continue the journey to Stockholm . |
| 26 | In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie . |
| 27 | But what was simpler than to drive the car to Streatley , siphon petrol out of the Rolls into it ( possibly even siphon some into a can as well , to top it up near London ) and then drive back ? |
| 28 | But , allowing that he could , he might just about have been able to drive the car to Exeter Sunday night . |
| 29 | Every few weeks I would get one or two days off duty to catch the ferry to Nanaimo and motor down the scenic Malahat Drive to Victoria . |
| 30 | We then said goodbye to the kindly fireman and Paul Ingouf said he would come with us to the Harbour where we were to catch the ferry to Portsmouth . |