Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But hosiery companies are fighting back this Christmas with some flamboyant stockings and tights designed to liven up the festive party season . |
| 2 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 3 | Mowbray moved to Celtic in a £1m move last year but has been dogged by injuries since his transfer . |
| 4 | These procedures will need to tailored to each specific sale but a common theme will be a guideline for the submission date for indicative offers rather than a deadline . |
| 5 | Revolutionary seamless sails , formed in one piece in a 3-D mould , in place of conventional sails sewn or glued from numerous panels , are expected to used on Stars & Stripes soon . |
| 6 | ‘ Obviously , what has to demonstrated to the court is that the delay complained of has produced genuine prejudice and unfairness . |
| 7 | Conversely , most of the group 's competitors offer modular software that has to processed in batch , generally overnight . |
| 8 | Gambian officials also blamed Senegal for a week of electricity failures in the capital Banjul , power returning to normal on Dec. 3 after supplies of gas and oil were guaranteed from Senegal . |
| 9 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 10 | The Elwood Glover referred to graduated to CBC national network status from the announcers ' staff of CHAB , Moose Jaw . |
| 11 | Jessica Jartley used to terrified of hairdressers . |
| 12 | Davies still looks to Labour as the likeliest carrier for such ideas . |
| 13 | Inclusion of a proforma fax sheet addressed to MAS as part of the Investment Overview package may encourage responses from even no interest parties and thereby save follow up effort . |
| 14 | City have slumped to halfway after three defeats on the trot and it is doubtful whether the recovery will start at Maine Road today against a Villa side that Reid acknowledges is ‘ brilliantly balanced right through ’ . |
| 15 | Only last September every frame of Rupert Bear 's new animated TV series had to be minutely examined after a Canadian animator decided to liven up Rupert 's life . |
| 16 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 17 | UK church-based organisation Rom-Aid appealed to International for help and the company responded by providing supplies of its Child-Safe paint . |
| 18 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 19 | You would think that Ipswich came to United to be happy going home losing only 2–0 . |
| 20 | Voluntary personal abstention continued in a modest way through to the end of American slavery but plans positively to develop free-labour cultivation in the American South , India or West Africa came to little in the 1850s and the British government never gave any serious consideration after equalisation of the sugar duties beginning in 1846 to a policy of discriminating in favour of free-grown produce . |
| 21 | It is a good idea to list the positive and negative consequences of dieting on an index card , which you can then carry around and refer to prior to eating , or exercising . |
| 22 | The first goes up left of COTW following a line of pegs and is said to hard for the grade . |
| 23 | Yet , while the background of terrorist violence remained , and the gulf between the two communities in the North hardly seemed to narrow at all over the years , the stance of the Thatcher government was clearly one based on diplomacy and compromise . |
| 24 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 25 | The unforgiving finger of fate always seemed to single out Frank Haffey but eventually the fall-guy had his day . |
| 26 | He seemed to single out Marion , to be looking straight at her . |
| 27 | This is because speakers of these German dialects look to German as their standard language , read and write in German and listen to German on radio and television . |
| 28 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 29 | Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued . |
| 30 | After that there was no way back for City and Rangers now travel to Marine in the second round on December 5 . |