Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demands of this kind of social experience are perhaps most acute when the infant wishes to communicate to the adult about the object — for example , if the child wishes to draw the adult 's attention to an object or request an object from the adult . |
| 2 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 3 | Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to write to a file in the supplied working directory . |
| 4 | The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland , asking permission to nominate him as president . |
| 5 | I have no information with which to write to the Chairman of the Committee asking it to investigate the sale . |
| 6 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 7 | I enclose copies of letters I have been obliged to write to the Managers of InterCity , Regional Railways , and ScotRail , and I would be grateful if you could take up these issues with British Rail on my behalf . |
| 8 | The Bar Services Committee and its Information Technology Sub-Committee aims to be responsive to the needs of the profession , and members of the Bar who have suggestions for its future work are encouraged to write to the Secretary with particular proposals . |
| 9 | Please could I ask you to find a few minutes to write to the Secretary of State for Wales , Welsh Office , Cathays Park , Cardiff CF1 3NQ , urging him to persuade his cabinet colleagues of the importance of finding time for an Environment Bill which includes these measures . |
| 10 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 11 | The secretary was directed to write to the Master of the Horse , asking leave to nominate him as president of the College at the forthcoming general meeting . |
| 12 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 13 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 14 | Saltburn/Marske and New Marske parish council wants to form a junior version of its council and is to write to the headteachers at Bydales , Marske and Huntcliff , Saltburn , schools to drum up interest . |
| 15 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 16 | It is a good idea to get some of the conservation bodies to write to the Department of the Environment supporting the listing application as well , particularly the Georgian Group or Victorian Society if the building falls within their remit . |
| 17 | Before making a formal application , candidates are strongly advised to write to the department in which they hope to study in order to obtain advice about their proposed study . |
| 18 | Coun Davies wants Aberconwy Borough Council to write to the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , asking that the safeguard be written into exploration contracts being negotiated . |
| 19 | A few months ago I asked you to write to the magazine with your queries about Silver machines , and suggestions for the subjects you 'd like me to write about . |
| 20 | I had to write to the family with the new material ; they reacted in different ways , a mixture of distress and anger . |
| 21 | Immediately after The Builder published its report about Hall 's conclave on 30th August , 1856 , architects began to write to the Office of Works asking for details . |
| 22 | So we need to write to the police to er I suppose the thing to do is we write in a general way to the , the Chief Constable , North Wales police |
| 23 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 24 | Moreover , when in 1870 urban administrative councils ( dumy ) analogous to the rural zemstvos were established , even the most prominent commoners tended to defer to the minority of nobles represented on the councils . |
| 25 | Thus the closing months of 1954 found the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arguing ( exactly on the lines feared by the British ) " that the timely achievement of the broad objective of U.S. security policy can not be brought about if the United States is required to defer to the counsel of the most cautious among our Allies " . |
| 26 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 27 | Rather than seeing the electorate as independent and politically minded , it has been argued that they were easily susceptible to manipulation from above , and that they tended to defer to the wishes of their social superiors . |
| 28 | The loyal voter may have voted consistently out of party principle , or because ties of dependence persistently obliged him to defer to the wishes of committed partisans amongst the local elite . |
| 29 | Whether the farm worker preferred to defer to the authority of his ‘ betters ’ , or fight against it , or merely accept it as a fact of life and accommodate to it as best he could , he recognized that there was a clear , qualitative difference between this relationship and that with his fellow workers . |
| 30 | Earlier cases had tended to defer to the judgment of the police officer on the spot without setting out an objective definition to which he or she was required to adhere . |