Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
| 2 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 3 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 4 | JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland . |
| 5 | Earlier , press reports citing Western diplomats had indicated that Russia 's interpretation of the complex mechanism for inspections had prevented access to sites which Western officials said should be opened to scrutiny . |
| 6 | Having declared to Roderigo his true feelings about Othello , Iago later explains why he pays tribute to virtue : personal gain . |
| 7 | Fighting spread to Mostar which Croatian forces took on Oct. 25 and proclaimed capital of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosne [ see p. 39103 ] , with Boban as its president . |
| 8 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
| 9 | For a while , she would have to downscale her first impressions . |
| 10 | But please do n't ask us to crew your young ones up with other adults … many are teachers , meant to be on holiday ! |
| 11 | Check with neighbours that they have n't got the same problem something could be wrong with the main sewer-before attempting to unblock your own drains . |
| 12 | 4 What is the ethical justification of barring access to treatments which some individuals may benefit from ? |
| 13 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 14 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 15 | They were disliked by those whose ideal was a more flexible school , even if they were unclear about the means of attaining it , and that dislike extended to arrangements which classified children by ability , placing he more and the less able in separate streams . |
| 16 | Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do . |
| 17 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 18 | to palm me two things : a key to his house |
| 19 | He took an extreme position on law reform as well as in matters religious , and his fellow millenarians took to meeting regularly at his house to concert their parliamentary tactics . |
| 20 | It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted . |
| 21 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
| 22 | We are forced to conclude that while the main argument does confer qualified and partial authority on just governments it invariably fails to justify the claims to authority which these governments make for themselves . |
| 23 | He added that pubs and clubs should be allowed to stagger their closing times . |
| 24 | Effective safeguards could be built in to prevent the inflationary dangers inherent in parallel currency systems , particularly in that the central banks of all member states would be obliged to repurchase their own currencies from the EMF for hard currencies . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 26 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Inc has hired Fred Newall , former vice-president of NCR Europe , to head-up its European operations as vice-president following the departure of Pierre Donaldson . |
| 27 | D&B Inc has hired Fred Newall , former vice president of NCR Europe , to head-up its European operations as vice president following the departure of Pierre Donaldson . |
| 28 | In some perhaps not fully conscious way critics tend to look for faults in Othello , errors of personality or upbringing ( to neo-Freudians his sexual hang-ups ) , that will explain why he believes Iago and murders Desdemona . |
| 29 | Such an error could upset the plant 's internal clock , causing it to mistime its other activities . |
| 30 | He appointed a seneschal , receiver and auditors to ad-minister his French lands and employed a proctor-general for French affairs to represent his interests at law . |