Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once her interest was not centred on the Grand Prix , but on her father , and his reasons for coming out to Spain to find her . |
| 2 | Only part of the case for answering positively to the question Why save ? has been given . |
| 3 | For example , Meric Casaubon , a prolific classical scholar , made out a good case for supposing there to be much of human value in the tradition he wished to defend . |
| 4 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 5 | Gilly finds an excuse for going back to Mr Randolph 's house and she manages to steal the rest of his money , but there is still not enough to pay for her ticket to San Francisco . |
| 6 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 7 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 8 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 9 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 10 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 11 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 12 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 13 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 14 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 15 | IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort . |
| 16 | A day of sorrows for Crusaders was capped just before half-time when the usually lethal Sid Burrows was booked for throwing the ball away and referee Alan Snoddy had a word with manager Roy Walker for coming on to the pitch . |
| 17 | it does n't sound as if people had much inhibitions about coming up to you and asking you . |
| 18 | There are halls for banqueting up to 3,000 , for small exhibitions , industrial theatre and simultaneous translation . |
| 19 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 20 | PROUD dad Phil Stancliff lost half his blood after plunging on to church railings before his daughter 's wedding . |
| 21 | The gang bundled the family into a bedroom after bursting in to a house on Coventry 's ‘ millionaires ’ row ’ in Kenilworth Road . |
| 22 | Because food preparation generally involves a good deal of doubling back to and from the refrigerator , sink , stove and different work surfaces , the walking distance between all the main work areas should not be excessive . |
| 23 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 24 | Companies thus appear to have made some strides towards repairing net worth , partly as a result of responding early to signs of recession . |
| 25 | Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces . |
| 26 | Bevan suggests that the growth of conglomerates was further facilitated by a number of other factors : the perceived need by Banks to offer a full range of financial services to customers for fear of losing out to competitors ; established international connections ; and pre-existing strong links with the securities business . |
| 27 | This has been reduced , and there 's been a considerable move in Indonesia towards turning over to sustained yield management . |
| 28 | in the practice of teaching solely to the tests HMI were obliged to administer to pupils annually ; and not least |
| 29 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 30 | In the Russian Federation , for instance , the Tatar Republic adopted a declaration of independence in October 1991 and declared its intention of affiliating independently to the newly established Commonwealth . |