Example sentences of "of [adv] [verb] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 2 | The Law did not , however , provide for genuine representative government as demanded by many Hong Kong citizens , although it increased the number of directly elected seats to the Legislative Council to one-third of the total by 1997 . |
| 3 | Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case . |
| 4 | Written records attributed to the Hittites of Asia Minor of 1500BC contain references to wine , and its use is familiar from Homeric legends onwards . |
| 5 | Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits . |
| 6 | She continued caring for his wardrobe during her royal romance , on one occasion delivering a pile of freshly laundered shirts to the back entrance of St James 's Palace , where Rory was on duty , in order to avoid the press . |
| 7 | It is the genius of Shakespeare that his plays offer plenty of fully written parts to a band of players . |
| 8 | Of course this 6000 includes some individuals that we picked up more than once ; but by marking the toads we ensured that we counted each one only once each year , and standard marking and recapture techniques enabled us to estimate the size of the population , and the annual rate of mortality and recruitment of newly matured adults to the breeding population . |
| 9 | Following the principle of decorum ( to be found , for instance , in Horace 's Ars Poetica ) , the classical view was that the style which dealt with serious matters had to be non-realistic , in the sense of systematically eliminating references to everyday life and using a type of language much more elaborate and re fined than that of everyday usage ; non-serious subjects could be dealt with realistically , in ordinary language , but on no account could the different levels of style be mixed together . |
| 10 | has been for , that has actually been the case , has been the problems in terms of actually getting nurses to actually come out and doctors and pharmacists to actually come out publicly . |