Example sentences of "to the [noun] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can imagine that erm , er during the war of course , th they buses made because they made to the trolley buses made plenty of money because erm , labour was cheap and erm , you had the soldiers they were , lot of them , no other form of transport , petrol rationing and that , so the buses really did come into their own during the war . |
| 2 | Sometimes the cat even brought his ‘ ladies ’ back to the church steps to sing their own eerie vespers to a cold silver moon . |
| 3 | Otherwise , junk issuers wanting to cut their debt might have to resort to the bankruptcy courts to encourage their debt-holders to accept stock . |
| 4 | Once in place , put decorative chrome caps on to the screw heads to hide them . |
| 5 | Shadow Heritage Secretary Bryan Gould has written to the Sunday Times slamming its ‘ extraordinary decision ’ . |
| 6 | In concept it was an equivalent to the capital gains tax which would have been levied had the building been sold . |
| 7 | Questions relating to the way teachers perform their tasks can readily be translated into statements about what teachers ought to be doing ! |
| 8 | The design is created by wrapping a weft thread around four ( or sometimes more ) warp strands and then drawing it back and wrapping it around two , a technique of " looped " weaving not dissimilar to the way fishermen make their nets . |
| 9 | how to distinguish a statistically significant coefficient , right , rule of thumb is that the T ratio has to be greater than two with absolute value right and the figures in square brackets next to the T ratios tell us the exact level of significance , right , er of that coefficient , right , so the incoming elasticity of demand is statistically significant from zero only at the eighty five percent level , a correspondence of fifteen percent significance that incoming the price elasticity demand , highly significant , right , significance level as given by the probabil by the probability er unit in square brackets , the timing level therefore we could be very highly confident about that coefficient okay . |
| 10 | Now let me ask you , a lot of you this , some of you have been coming to Congress year after year , you probably come from branches from five hundred , a thousand , fifteen hundred people , but how many people actually go to the branch meetings to elect you to come to Congress ? |
| 11 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 12 | The coal is sold to the fishmeal factories to fire their furnaces . |
| 13 | ‘ And circle round to the farm buildings to see what I can see . ’ |
| 14 | Their last victory was in 1991 when they lost out last year to the Leinster champions Terenure who are the favourites to win tomorrow . |
| 15 | Customs state , in their official publication , Single Market Report ( Special Edition , Christmas 1992 ) , that amendments to the draft regulations make it clear that the register refers only to temporary movements , ie for a period not longer than two years . |
| 16 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 17 | But the thousands of people who trudged to the polling stations to cast their vote for this party must have known what the terror tailpiece to the democratic process would have been . |
| 18 | Later , both teams adjourned to the changing rooms to continue their frolics , and there were close-ups in technicolour of all sorts of couplings and triplings . |
| 19 | But ill-health led him to cash in his 22.6% stake for £70 million in late 1989 and he retired to the Yorkshire Dales to tend his Highland cattle . |
| 20 | The defeat of Redgrave and Pinsent is unlikely to prevent their selection for the Olympic coxless pairs and it could prove to have been a useful warning to the world champions to raise their performance for Cologne in two weeks ' time , when all the potential Olympic crews will have their first try-out . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 22 | But instead of such intensive interest , they received their usual level of medical care from their own personal physicians , with an annual visit to the project clinics to have their progress monitored . |
| 23 | To allow the army in Egypt to deliver an early riposte to the Axis forces facing them , before these could be built up to any really dangerous strength , a fast convoy carrying 295 tanks , 180 motor vehicles , and 53 crated Hurricanes had been despatched from England , leaving Gibraltar on the morning of 6th. with Force ‘ H ’ in attendance . |
| 24 | The Comintern , however , disapproving strongly of these tactics , obliged the Mexican Communists ’ to send directives to the peasant leaders instructing them to turn their arms against the government and fight an action on two fronts with a view to precipitating social revolution' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 6 ) . |
| 25 | Between shouts to the dock hands unloading my trunks he asked , ‘ You 've got the drugs I cabled for ? ’ |