Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOW TO WRITE A LETTER to Feedback ( R4 ) , rule one : always be incandescent with rage about something so minor that a normal person would not even notice it , let alone write to complain . |
| 2 | The editorial contents will be designed to provide a back-up to course work and a bridge between the college experience and the realities of working on site . |
| 3 | Registered postgraduate students may be required to provide a contribution to fieldwork costs , in addition to the fees and research costs set out above . |
| 4 | IT is seldom remarked how curious it is that so many people need to find a meaning to life . |
| 5 | Two dates have been arranged so far for climbers who wish to obtain a pass to Range West . |
| 6 | Mr Peters , I want you to escort a patient to X-ray ! |
| 7 | The amount of the counterclaim is now a factor that can be considered by the court in deciding whether to rescind a reference to arbitration . |
| 8 | The Party 's choice of one man and one woman ( London school teacher Jean Lambert ) is intended to reflect a commitment to equality . |
| 9 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 11 | Then , with 13 overs to go to the close , paceman Merv Hughes forced Haynes to edge a catch to wicketkeeper Ian Healy . |
| 12 | If , therefore , someone wishes to assert a right to confidentiality , the initial burden of establishing circumstances giving rise to this right lies upon him . |
| 13 | The union , notoriously moderate and bureaucratic , repudiated the strike and made several attempts to engineer a return to work ( including alleged collaboration with the employer ) . |
| 14 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 15 | In South Arabia as part of the Pax Britannica in the 1950s and 1960s , when some local robber baron was ‘ persuaded ’ to stop plundering caravans , he was invited to surrender a hostage to authority , as a gesture of future good faith . |
| 16 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 17 | The Preamble and Article 1 of Regulation 2052/88 should be amended to include a reference to Article 130 R of the Treaty . |
| 18 | This afternoon I wanted to ask Caliban to post a letter to G.P. from me . |
| 19 | " It 's enough to drive a man to insanity . " |
| 20 | It is enough to drive a man to distraction . ’ |
| 21 | Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by . |
| 22 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 23 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 24 | It is a programme designed to add to the wealth and efficiency of the nation , to give a spur to industry and to open the way to markets . ’ |
| 25 | And he was going to give a rocket to Show-Off , whose performance on the publicity front had been absolutely dismal . |
| 26 | Mr Lamont aimed to give a boost to business and recovery this year while sending a clear message to the markets of the measures he — or his successor — will take to claw back borrowing . |
| 27 | On May 27 , 1990 , a major rail strike was brought to an end following the intervention of Walesa , who urged strikers to negotiate a return to work . |
| 28 | To assign a role to culture is not to resolve the problems of structure versus action because the here and now culture , whatever its foundations in historical action , can be regarded as a component of social structure in a general sense . |
| 29 | So that when want numbers of non-directed peasants began to spill out of the disaster areas in the early summer of 1921 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered its guberniia counterparts to put a stop to migration ‘ since the flight of the peasants … will ruin entirely our economic life ’ . |
| 30 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |