Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Yes it does , it 's If anybody 's interested in that provision , the allocation provision you do need to er to write to the Teachers ' Pensions Agency .
2 I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter .
3 RCN members are also advised to write to the college 's assistant adviser ( enrolled nursing ) , , for advice and an information pack on issues of interest to enrolled nurses .
4 To come to a queen 's palace .
5 The text of the new treaty was substantively identical to that negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1991 , dropping the 1948 commitment for either side to come to the other 's assistance if it were attacked .
6 She is not a communicant member because she does n't find herself worthy to come to the lord 's table .
7 He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ .
8 Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing .
9 The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . "
10 The first view would probably extend the law further than it has commonly been thought to go and would expose strikers having no immunity under trade union legislation to a very wide-ranging liability ; on the other hand it is not quite accurate to describe the plaintiffs in these two cases as merely ‘ ricochet ’ victims for it may be the effect of pressure on the public and customers which causes the employer to succumb to the strikers ' demands .
11 Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor .
12 Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world .
13 Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school .
14 Unfortunately , this is not always as successful as it might be , largely because your dog comes to relate to the trainer 's commands and so then proves more reluctant to follow your instructions .
15 And it was not necessarily praiseworthy to kowtow to the government 's desire to avoid legislation .
16 The testator has instituted his sons heirs , and set up a trust : whichever dies first , if he dies childless , is to make over his share of the estate to his brother ; if both die childless the whole is to pass to the testator 's granddaughter .
17 The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later .
18 That environmental statement has now been published to conform to the Committee 's requirements .
19 If regulations become increasingly tight it will be difficult politically for the UK not to conform to the world 's most stringent safety practice .
20 Also if a civil servant fails to answer to a committee 's satisfaction , the government accept that the appropriate minister should be prepared to come before the committee .
21 I 've just wasted ten minutes trying to listen to a man 's chest .
22 They all sat down in front of the television to listen to the Queen 's Speech , feeling at peace with one another and the world .
23 One of the most important tasks in analysing intonation is to listen to the speaker 's pitch and recognise what it is doing ; this is not an easy thing to do , and it seems to be a quite different skill from that acquired in studying segmental phonetics .
24 There are signs that the council of Lloyd 's is starting to listen to the names ' cries .
25 This scheduled time could also be used by the manager to listen to the team 's feedback .
26 The politicians do n't want to listen to the nation 's voice because they believe they know best and are scared that the people will vote against .
27 During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside .
28 Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks .
29 It met the flight attendants ' union on Monday and is also hoping to talk to the pilots ' union .
30 Their true significance is their separate platform chassis , which VW is prepared to sell to the world 's specialist kit car builders with service back-up .
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