Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next stop was across the Gulf of Oman to Gwadar in Pakistan , close to Iran 's border . |
| 2 | It 's his son , who 's related to Jim through marriage . |
| 3 | to talk to Jim on Monday er |
| 4 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 5 | Whereas the South 's contribution was reportedly focused on timing , inspection site selection , inspection procedures and post-inspection measures , the North 's proposals concentrated primarily on achieving international guarantees for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and the opening to inspection of US military bases in South Korea . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 7 | But Part VII of the Act starts with a prescription of a company 's obligation to maintain current accounting records ; and logically enough , because , although these are not open to inspection by members or the public , unless they are kept it will be impossible for the company to produce verifiable annual accounts . |
| 8 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 9 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |
| 10 | We 've told 'em they 've t'keep the place open to inspection fer health an ’ sanitation , so there 'll be no recurrence of any take-overs from outside , like happened before . ’ |
| 11 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 12 | Charles flies to break news to sons at school |
| 13 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 14 | Hoomey found he looked to Jazz for support , trusting his judgement . |
| 15 | Pre-tax profits increased 29 per cent to £3m on turnover up from £39.8m to £49.3m . |
| 16 | Operating costs also fell to 23% from 25% of turnover due to ‘ effective working capital management ’ , or careful attention to inventory levels and debtor activity . |
| 17 | Operating costs also fell to 23% from 25% of turnover due to ‘ effective working capital management ’ , or careful attention to inventory levels and debtor activity . |
| 18 | DEPARTURES Flight Bookers ( tel : 071-757 2002 ) flights to Botswana via South Africa , £699 . |
| 19 | Go-Video Inc has turned in second quarter net profits of $60,220 against losses of $622,705 last time , on turnover that rose by 186% to $8.6m ; mid-term net profits amounted to $81,383 against losses of $1.1m last time , on turnover that rose 121.5% to $14.7m . |
| 20 | $39,000 for Flamingo ; $70,000 to $200,000 for Cobra ; $150,000 to $600,000 for Ruby . |
| 21 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 22 | Standard is selling most of its continental commercial banking operations to WestLB for £100m . |
| 23 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 24 | Martin Head has guided them to wins over Walthamstow Pennant , Basildon United and Canvey Island . |
| 25 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |
| 26 | Amdahl Tuxedo Transaction Manager 4.2 , based on the Unix System Laboratories Inc product , offers support for migrating some transaction processing applications to UTS from IBM Corp MVS systems while maintaining links to corporate databases in the MVS/CICS environment . |
| 27 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 28 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 29 | ( 2 ) Where in any proceedings against any person for such an offence the defence provided by subsection ( 1 ) above involves an allegation that the commission of the offence was due ( a ) to the act or default of another ; or ( b ) to reliance on information given by another , that person shall not , without the leave of the court , be entitled to rely on the defence unless , not less than seven clear days before the hearing of the proceedings , he has served a notice under subsection ( 3 ) below on the person bringing the proceedings . |
| 30 | Trial told of death threat to lorryman in robbery |