Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exclusion of parts of the centre " let or constructed or adapted for letting " is fair and reasonable , but quite often an exclusion will relate only to parts of the centre " not let on the same terms as this lease " which could result in the occupying tenants paying part of the service charges for unlet premises . |
| 2 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 3 | To have a set-aside system which applied only to farms in the north of Europe would discriminate considerably . |
| 4 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 5 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 6 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 7 | Such is one of my favourite swims : the top of the shelf is 2½ft deep and then it rapidly drops away to 8ft at the base . |
| 8 | A considerable research tradition was built up , and yet : " this tradition has been confined largely to studies of the comparative effectiveness of conventional procedures and selected types of so-called visual or audiovisual media in attaining the same objectives . " |
| 9 | The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces . |
| 10 | For example , the Allianz group in Munich has close to 25% of the Bavarian Hypo Bank , one of Germany 's biggest . |
| 11 | Thirty-seven year old Michael Hughes , who was married with five children , was driving home to Glasgow from the enquiry in Dumfries , when he collided with a lorry . |
| 12 | But when they fly home to Karachi at the end of the month they are in danger of being remembered as cricket 's chumps , not champs . |
| 13 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 14 | We hope that the more frequent training schedule will enable us to get students out teaching classes earlier in the course , returning later to top-up for the examination . |
| 15 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 16 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 17 | The dead officers were drawn from a number of battalions , revealing that the coup attempt was not confined solely to rebels within the ‘ Urraca ’ company . |
| 18 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 19 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 20 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 21 | Say no to sweets in the privacy of your kitchen and they may accept it with scarcely a murmur . |
| 22 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 23 | On the contrary , among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at the community of Qumran , there are rules applying specifically to members of the sect who are married and have children . |
| 24 | Obruchev Institute for Permafrost Science in the USSR ( 1930- ) are examples of research institutes that contributed significantly to developments in the science of cold regions . |
| 25 | In the pre-war years , his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment . |
| 26 | I need refer only to passages in the speeches of Lord Scarman and Lord Wilberforce . |
| 27 | The people who emigrated in the first stage were mainly farming families from the state of Gujerat ( see map ) and craft-workers from Punjab , while those who came directly to Britain in the 1950s and 60s were mainly farming families from Gujerat and the Indian and Pakistani areas of Punjab . |
| 28 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 29 | Will he bring home to Ministers on the continent the fact that the headage basis would prove devastating for hill and upland farmers in the United Kingdom and will he do everything possible to make those Ministers see our point of view ? |
| 30 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |