Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 2 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 3 | A second IMF-approved emergency economic plan , announced in December , included a 3 per cent sales tax and a 10 per cent surcharge on all imports , raising fears that members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades ( GATT ) , to which Costa Rica acceded as the 100th member on Nov. 20 [ see p. 38259 ] , might retaliate in kind . |
| 4 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 5 | OK Tedi is typical of the remote and difficult locations to which Courtaulds paints have to be delivered in this part of the world . |
| 6 | Next door to him Sigmar Polke works in ink , wash and lacquer to provide an untidily wrapped brown paper parcel with a profusion of Ben Day dots and the cut-out metal remains of a Max Ernst frottage . |
| 7 | In Prague Ladislav Sacher , Minister for Trade and Industry , left Hradcany Castle and walked to his Skoda car parked by the kerb . |
| 8 | One thing which , it seems , has been sorted out is that contrary to what SINEAD O'CONNOR said in this very organ recently , her record company have emphatically denied that she 's going to stop making records . |
| 9 | Both belong to what Geoffrey Thurley diagnosed as the sealed world of French rationalism ; the difficulty of convincingly transplanting such forms of intellectual discourse from a French to an English context remains formidable . |
| 10 | In fact the six-year-old is saying things remarkably similar to what Ludwig Wittgenstein says in The Blue Book . |
| 11 | It argues that a ‘ national strategic technology acquisition plan ’ is needed to provide a boost to the industry 's own research efforts comparable to what US companies receive from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which spends about $ 900 million a year in the field . |
| 12 | However , rather more attention has been devoted to what R.U. Cooke characterizes as an ‘ empty quarter ’ ( Cooke , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | It comes close to what Arthur Haley described in his novel Roots . |
| 14 | There is n't much to add to what Mr. Kennedy wrote in your March issue except to agree with him . |
| 15 | As a business it 's as circumscribed as any other , with A&R departments answerable to what Jeff Young describes as ‘ men in grey suits ’ shouting , ‘ Bottom line ! |
| 16 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 17 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |