Example sentences of "in [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though most of these reforms benefited from widespread political and public support , de Gaulle had played a critical role in bringing them to fruition . |
| 2 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 3 | Judge Owen stayed the proceedings last November , ruling the trial should not go ahead because delays in bringing it to court amounted to an abuse of the court process . |
| 4 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 5 | It is very profitable to the place , as also in the number of shipping employed in bringing it to London ’ . |
| 6 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 7 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 8 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | It seems more likely that Taylor was correct in attributing it to Sheldon 's poor opinion of his judgement . |
| 10 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 11 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 12 | It 's very , very hard in encouraging them to … |
| 13 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 14 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 15 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 16 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 17 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 18 | The current British test meets all those requirements , but if clarification is needed , then the following is an attempt to interpret the test in the light of practical experience in applying it to films and video recordings . |
| 19 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 20 | We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be . |
| 21 | I am not alone , I feel , in believing it to be high time boxing is recognised for what it really is , a sordid and revolting spectacle of the baser human urges , demeaning alike to those who support or take part in it . |
| 22 | It is , however , encouraging that statutory authorities are beginning to see how helpful advocacy schemes can be in alerting them to easily ignored issues and in raising awareness of users ' rights , particularly those focused on legal and civil liberties and welfare benefit entitlements . |
| 23 | And the church as bible road to fame in alerting us to our responsibilities . |
| 24 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 25 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 26 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 27 | We have come to that stage now and the council has reached the conclusion that Mr Sugden 's proposition is the best on offer and we have no hesitation in recommending it to you . ’ |
| 28 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 29 | While hating him she had loved him , and , loving him , had no shame in wanting him to be her only mate . |
| 30 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |