Example sentences of "to [noun] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 2 | It was clear to The Times that bankruptcy was far less of a protection to creditors than a licence to dishonest traders to speculate with other persons ' property . |
| 3 | Do n't make firm plans : Your ticket bears a warning that you are ‘ subject to removal if a confirmed passenger arrives before actual flight departure ’ . |
| 4 | The assertion that that is all the information given to shareholders when a company comes to market , or is subject to a takeover bid , will not wash . |
| 5 | Mr Reid said the matter came to light after a pupil informed a teacher that he had been offered drugs by the suspended boy . |
| 6 | The facts came to light when a former Brent librarian , J.T. Gillet , read the good news that a new library had been opened in Brent . |
| 7 | The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing . |
| 8 | The court was told Smith 's crooked past came to light when a separate civil court action began . |
| 9 | These came to light when a couple brought the album in for valuation without knowing the artist 's identity . |
| 10 | In some cases subsidence damage will have come to light when a property is being sold and we may find ourselves under pressure to resolve the claim quickly to allow the sale to proceed . |
| 11 | The case , coinciding with the treatment of the subject of serial killings in a number of recent films , came to light when a man told Milwaukee police on July 22 that he had been threatened by Dahmer but then escaped from his apartment , where police later found numerous dismembered bodies . |
| 12 | But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase . |
| 13 | This is subject to the minor exceptions in subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , and to adaptations when a private company has validly elected under section 252 to dispense with laying of accounts before general meetings or when shareholders of listed companies have elected under section 251 to receive summary financial statements instead . |
| 14 | A FAMILY holiday turned to tragedy when a four-year-old boy plunged to his death from a fifth floor balcony , an inquest heard . |
| 15 | Why should the fact that D was engaged on causing damage to property at the time ( even damage to D's own property ) make his conduct into an offence punishable with life imprisonment when , if D were engaged on some other activity , it would not be punishable as such and would only amount to manslaughter if a death happened to be caused ? |
| 16 | In Central News tonight : Meningitis alert : Warning to parents after a schoolgirl dies . |
| 17 | The head of Lynnfield Primary School in Hartlepool , Joy Lowe , has written to parents after a ten-year-old girl complained that a man tried to accost her as she made her way to the school . |
| 18 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 19 | Disappointment and despair turned to delight when BP Exploration stepped in with financial support for a Dorset Youth Orchestra concert tour to Ireland after a proposed trip to Spain fell through . |
| 20 | Another commando raid that summer was mounted by 12 Commando ; 16 men led by 2nd Lieutenant Pinkney landing near Ambleteuse where they made a general reconnaissance returning safely to England although a stoker on the naval craft was killed by enemy action , probably during the withdrawal . |
| 21 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 22 | The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then . |
| 23 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |
| 24 | Andrea Arrica , head of the local World Cup organisation in the Sardinian capital Cagliari , has dismissed worries about English hooliganism , saying that England 's prestige as a footballing nation meant more to Sardinia than a potentially troublesome minority . |
| 25 | Returning to work after a career break can pose problems for both women and men . |
| 26 | The increased speed of the modern game and the athleticism of the participants has led to more crowded play so that linesmen are apt to flag when a forward suddenly breaks clear to receive a pass . |
| 27 | A relational flagger may be added to flag when a developer is leaving the relational subset , but Beech believes there is no inconsistency between the two basic models . |
| 28 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 29 | Established companies , concentrating on defending what they already have , tend not to counter-attack when a newcomer challenges them . |
| 30 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |