Example sentences of "to [noun pl] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 2 | A working party in Ayrshire and Arran recently invited consumers to meetings and commissioned a survey on consumer views . |
| 3 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 4 | Thus , Egenhofer and Frank ( 1988 ) suggested a way in which the WYSIWYG principle of ‘ what you see is what you get ’ could be extended to GIS and outlined the components of their own system which included a study of the selection of objects and areas , legends and query specification . |
| 5 | The Secretariat of the Central Committee is given the teeth to do what it is meant to do : appoint , control access to decision-makers and supervise the policy which the Politburo formulates . |
| 6 | He prefers to go out to restaurants and read a book , or watch people . |
| 7 | Well that would enable us to go to pic one of us to go to pictures and get a penny bag of sweets , or a pennyworth of fruits , or a pennyworth of stale buns . |
| 8 | So we shifted our focus to words and shortened the range to five stages from ‘ very good ’ to ‘ very bad ’ . |
| 9 | R admitted that he took the equipment to parties and converted the cocaine into a form in which it would vaporise and be inhaled . |
| 10 | They walk up and down the teeming thoroughfares of Central London distributing to lookalikes and doppelgangers a leaflet advertising Mr Tim 's College of English . |
| 11 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 12 | That could be a recipe for stagnation and frustration ; but it could also be another way of emphasising the potential importance of curriculum managers intelligent enough to give scope to individuals and to exploit the coming confusions . |
| 13 | The writers spent a year talking to workers and visiting the factory to make sure their production was as authentic as possible . |
| 14 | At the beginning of February A C Canoe Products and Palm got together at Ace 's factory to show off their products to dealers and to reveal the secrets of rotational moulding to those not already in the know … |
| 15 | We will encourage the transfer of people and technology from universities to businesses and upgrade the LINK scheme , which funds joint research . |
| 16 | Other SERA members and teachers ( not as yet part of the Association ) have contributed to Observations and played an important part in the development of the network . |
| 17 | We will convert Invalid Care Allowance into a Carer 's Benefit , increasing its value by an immediate 15% , indexing its future level to earnings and altering the entitlement rules to enable carers to combine caring with part-time or even full-time jobs and to ensure that people will still be eligible even if the caring starts after the carer reaches pensionable age . |
| 18 | Mr Gummer said : ‘ The proposals complement the range of environmental incentives already available to farmers and reflect the Government 's continuing commitment to caring for the countryside and to integrating environmental objectives into agricultural policy . ’ |
| 19 | They would have to rise to that level at which the monetary sector was forced to find some other solution to its liquidity shortage , perhaps by calling in advances to customers and reducing the stock of its outstanding deposits . |
| 20 | Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties . |
| 21 | She listened to cicadas and breathed the pervasive liquorice which grew locally and was processed in a factory on the Nîmes road . |
| 22 | The developer made a claim against the owner for extra costs caused by additional building works due to variations and initiated the reference of the claim to an expert . |
| 23 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 24 | You can go to museums and see the work of old craftsmen , but when they die , that 's it . |
| 25 | The laboratory was lit by a battery of fluorescent tubes , merciless to shadows and propagating a hard , white glare . |
| 26 | Is not that what we would have expected when the Government take on the 16 to 18-year-olds and perpetuate the myth that that age group is in full-time employment , in full-time training or in full-time education ? |
| 27 | The remaining job sharer intended to provide locum cover for her absent partner in order to provide continuity of care to patients and ensure the minimum of disruption to the practice . |
| 28 | On 16 July a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines killed 1600 people , caused serious disruption to communications and affected the whole country 's economy . |
| 29 | However , they are now going to extremes and breeding the traditional British breeds to be veritable giants at two years old , turning Herefords into red and white Charolais … |
| 30 | Council confirmed its response to comments and approved a number of amendments . |