Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , faced with a bad debt of £40,000 , took drastic action to accommodate the blow to cash flow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The effect of an abrupt change , for audiences more experienced than those of 1896 , is to alert the viewer to camera trickery , destroying belief . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Thus homoeopathy seeks to restore the organism to harmony and balance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whether the investors are prepared to support the migration to software remains uncertain . |
| 14 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 15 | COSE , it turns out , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat to Unix — and OS/2 for that matter — posed by Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming Windows NT operating system , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 16 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 17 | Control had shifted away from LEAs , but central government claimed to lack the power to secure the improvement to education that it sought and which the Conservatives promised the electorate in 1987 . |
| 18 | The United Nations was supposed to supervise the move to independence . |
| 19 | The concept of the inner child is a theory often used to find the key to unhappiness . |
| 20 | Finally , as Astbury comments , libraries would claim to contribute the critical component in the market , to provide the counterweight to bestsellerdom , and to contribute substantially to sustaining a wide range of serious books . |
| 21 | The aim of structural fire precautions is to limit the spread of fire within the building or from one building to another so as to minimize the risk to life . |
| 22 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 23 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 24 | On March 13 King Michael had written to interim President Ion Iliescu stating that he was prepared to lead the country to democracy through a constitutional monarchy . |
| 25 | This endorsement should be applied where it is necessary to restrict the cover to furniture , furnishings and household appliances . |
| 26 | On Oct. 15 the Bundestag voted by 364 to 24 with two abstentions in favour of altering Article 16 of the Basic Law ( constitution ) to restrict the right to asylum for " persons persecuted on political grounds " . |
| 27 | Team manager , Buckley 's Tudor Jones , has decided to entrust Flint 's bid to recapture the crown to youth and that means no places for Hall 's heavyweights . |
| 28 | Certain administrative changes at this time appear designed to effect a stricter supervision by the Exchequer over the collection of the Forest revenues , and to lessen the temptation to extortion by the Forest officers . |
| 29 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Dunderl Goldhand will want to destroy the shrine to Slaanesh here ; in this case , a Daemonette will arrive to attack him . |
| 30 | Once finalized , the new accord was expected to open the way to resumption of debt reduction talks with Western commercial banks which had been suspended since June 1991 . |