Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 2 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 3 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 4 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 5 | Firstly , and I return to this point which I have mentioned again and again in debates such as this and that 's the the question of the lack of there being a central agency er in existence to see to the enforcement of these matters . |
| 6 | THE family of the young Donegal woman dismembered by a 19-year-old man today slammed the three year prison sentence given to the killer . |
| 7 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 8 | Both words were used to push the Morrissey vision of men 's liberation ; not , as it may sound , a freedom given to the Penthouse reading hordes but a glimpse of Morrissey 's ideal world where gender barriers are entirely dispensed with . |
| 9 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 10 | A special book has been illustrated by Sister Frances Therese at the Carmelite Convent to record every donation given to the hospice in memory of someone who has died . |
| 11 | Creativity refers to the generation of novel ideas — innovation to making money with them . |
| 12 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |
| 13 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 14 | I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has given me the opportunity to report to the House the latest figures for inward investment . |
| 15 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 16 | The serums were mainly calf lymph for the whooping cough patients , and the diphtheria anti-toxin given to the patients who needed this . |
| 17 | The wrist moves to get the plate spinning and when it is going fast enough you stop the stick and , because of the hollow in the plate , the stick goes to the middle After practice you can try tossing it in the air and catching it or passing it behind your back . |
| 18 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 19 | Basically , by weighting the left rail the board turns to the right and vice versa . |
| 20 | The legal cloak given to the US action by the formal request for US assistance by the new government of President Guillerm Endara is not convincing , since the government was sworn in on a US military base with a US general standing by . |
| 21 | Recent discoveries at the site of the Graeco-Roman city of Hierapolis in ancient Phrygia , made during this summer 's season of work by an Italian team , include a marble basilica situated to the north of the city , forming one corner of an extensive agora ( 280 x 180m ) , the largest of its type in the Roman world yet uncovered , and bounded on the other three sides by stoas . |
| 22 | As to more general options for change , the Board referred to the possibilities of exclusive or semi-exclusive ‘ contracting , ’ and of ‘ franchising . ’ |
| 23 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 24 | The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken . |
| 25 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 26 | The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows , where he was hanged . |
| 27 | The 15-seat Cellobus goes to the East Bridgwater Community School , winner of a competition held among 38 organisations . |
| 28 | The cheque given to the jeweller proved worthless and he sued the pawnbroker to recover the ring . |
| 29 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
| 30 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |