Example sentences of "to [det] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've got twenty five minutes at present shall we can you just wipe around a couple of other things and then we 'll come back to that if time remains ? |
| 2 | My plan will give joy to some and satisfaction to many : satisfaction to Prince Richard because he can now join the king his brother , to Cardinal Bourchier because his mission has been successfully accomplished , and to the protector because he will have his nephews where he wants them — wherever that may be ! |
| 3 | The examples of Sugar Ray Robinson , Henry Armstrong and Ike Williams attest to this and heavyweight boxing was dominated by black boxers almost totally from 1937 . |
| 4 | Lester , with cameraman Nicolas Roeg , managed to stamp his mark on the film by employing quick cutting from one scene to another and sight gags that included Crawford tying a love note to a pigeon and watching the bird promptly plummet to the ground . |
| 5 | Later research was to show that whilst it would be most irresponsible to move children unnecessarily from one family to another because separation does cause psychological trauma and harm to the child , nevertheless given optimum conditions children can re-attach themselves and overcome the trauma of early separations ( Kadushin , 1970 ; Clarke and Clarke , 1976 ; Tizzard , 1977 ; Triseliotis and Russell , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 7 | A few controversial mammalian fossils were known from the age of reptiles , and Lyell appealed to these as evidence that the whole sequence was unsound . |
| 8 | We will refer to these as intro , A , B , C and coda shape of a circle with a cross on it . |
| 9 | We have been ‘ good news ’ to many since Radio Norfolk visited Mary Fox 's Class . |
| 10 | Evidence that Liberals had used the movement to pursue policies favourable to their party had confirmed to many that cooperation should be neutral ( Bailey 1948 ) . |
| 11 | The shape of the inner depends on the design of the tent , but to all but lightweight buffs it can be the deciding factor of your purchase . |
| 12 | The Queensland legislation is also contract based and permits a court , on application , to make an order that the defendant forfeit an amount equal to all or part of the proceeds received or to be received by him , or by any other person on his behalf from a contract relating to : |
| 13 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 14 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | It is a package with measures to promote investment and provide capital allowances similar to those that industry and commerce are begging for — pleas that are falling on the deaf ears of the Chancellor . |
| 16 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 17 | ‘ It does n't amount to more than gossip , you know . |
| 18 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 19 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 20 | A strike of about twenty-five staff in the sterile supplies stores had dramatically reduced activity , which was already hampered by the union policy of refusing admission to any but emergency cases . |