Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 2 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 3 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 4 | I do n't know who well I do n't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation , all the |
| 5 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 6 | They are invited to write to the Principal Librarian to arrange a postal loan service . |
| 7 | ‘ We need to let our members know that this is happening so that they can check out their own individual situation and we need to write to the regional council to find the basis for banding of agricultural housing here , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 9 | AMNESTY urges all members to write to the Malawian embassy in London to secure her release ( see details , page 6 ) . |
| 10 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 11 | It need not take much effort to write to the local paper , or phone a councillor , with a complaint , and the effects will impact upon management . |
| 12 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 13 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 14 | As Stewart Young says above please feel free to write to the Editorial Team . |
| 15 | Linkworth did not want his wife to write to the old lady . |
| 16 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
| 17 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 18 | And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city . |
| 19 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 20 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 21 | Due recognition was soon to come to the industrious doctor : in 1716 George I created him a baronet , an honour as yet conferred on only one other physician . |
| 22 | I have , however , experienced enough , and spoken to sufficient numbers of experienced psychics , to come to the private conclusion that the psychic is a reality . |
| 23 | Rakhmanov appealed on Nov. 21 to leaders of armed factions in the country to come to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 24 | Four twos two fours which ever one 's easier it 's going to come to the same answer . |
| 25 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 26 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 27 | A former male compositor , apprenticed between the wars , told me that in his school , near Nelson 's printworks in Parkside , the foreman used to come to the top class every year and recruit " the brightest boys " . |
| 28 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 29 | She could get them to broadcast an announcement for her , spread the word around the gallery that Mr James Worsdale was to come to the main entrance . |
| 30 | It was some relief to come to the Bolivian town of Copacabana with its huge white cathedral . |