Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fastened the panel from an old radio to the headboard with sticky tape and tied the driving wheel to Pete 's cardboard box with string . |
| 2 | She looked from her grandson 's angry glower to Caroline 's pale face . |
| 3 | Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl 's tight implementation timetable . |
| 4 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 5 | A drawing by Webber , the artist assigned by the Admiralty to Cook 's third voyage , of Keelakekula Bay inscribed ‘ the Place where Captain Cook was killed ’ is reputed to have already found a buyer not far below its original purchase price . |
| 6 | He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in . |
| 7 | Figure 7 ‘ The Country of the Iguanadon ’ , frontispiece to Mantell 's Wonders of Geology , eighth edition , 1864 . |
| 8 | Frontispiece to Galileo 's Dialogo i due massimi sistemi del mundo ( 1632 ) . |
| 9 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 10 | The relegation of less frequently used books to remote storage should eventually increase the overall relevance of the stock to users ' needs and therefore lead to a more efficient use of resources ( assuming that books which replace the neglected material issue more frequently ) . |
| 11 | British Rail released details of the damage to Saturday 's 8.49pm Southport to Hunt 's Cross train only last night . |
| 12 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 13 | The two companies have announced a side deal to Novell 's pending acquisition of Unix System Labs , that will see Novell and AT&T co-developing and co-marketing products that link their core businesses : computer networks and business phones ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 14 | No I think your neighbours to the south have a different perception to Craven 's strategic role . |
| 15 | Delighted civic leaders said at a champagne celebration in the city that the decision was a vital boost to Manchester 's challenge to stage the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 16 | In the wake of the Rallye 's poor showing on the world rally circuit , the Limited 's success will be something of a boost to VW 's Motorsport division . |
| 17 | It is a welcome boost to Compaq 's somewhat elderly SystemPro line , four times faster than the previous top-end model in large server configurations . |
| 18 | * WordPerfect has provided an important boost to IBM 's alternative to Windows and DOS . |
| 19 | Many are likely to cross the Atlantic to visit Clinton 's old Oxford haunts offering a boost to Britain 's tourism industry . |
| 20 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 21 | But Mr Huismans sees little sign yet of a consumer-led recovery in the American economy giving a significant boost to Courtaulds ' operations there . |
| 22 | Although these unequivocal signs of changing western attitudes were tempered by continuing British and French opposition to the re-establishment of full diplomatic and political relations , they were sufficient to give an enormous boost to Franco 's confidence in himself and the rightness of his own actions . |
| 23 | A further boost to Ted 's detective work came when the broadcaster Raymond Baxter put out an appeal for instruments during his commentary at the Farnborough Air Show in September 1972 . |
| 24 | Another vital boost to Dawn 's confidence and motivation was her introduction to the British ‘ Les Autres Sports ’ , an organization which encouraged sports competitions for people with disabilities . |
| 25 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 26 | Lloyd George announced his resignation to the Commons on 17 March in a speech that was close to tears , and the reaction of Unionist MPs was equally emotional , testament to Law 's great standing in his party . |
| 27 | It is a testament to Butler 's skill that he served as Private Secretary to both Edward Heath and Harold Wilson and , even more impressively , stayed the course as Principal Private Secretary under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 28 | The fact that attendance figures grow each year is testament to Newbury 's deserved popularity . |
| 29 | Past childhood 's ken to adult 's sombre zen . |
| 30 | It relied both on the circumstances of the shooting and on a confession alleged to have been made by telephone by the defendant to Paulette 's husband , Jimmy Zaidie ( ‘ Zaidie ’ ) immediately after the shooting , and also on threats previously made by the defendant to kill Paulette , as alleged by the prosecution and as testified to in evidence by Zaidie and by Daphne Matadial ( ‘ Matadial ’ ) , Paulette 's sister . |