Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 2 | The targeting of investment to areas rather than people , and the creation of a layer of bureaucracy to ‘ represent ’ such areas , is , in other words , a critical process in the delivery of urban policy initiatives . |
| 3 | It can be a prelude to inquiry just as questions are a spur to searching . |
| 4 | It is always possible that some ingenious modification of its protective belt will lead to some spectacular discovery that will bring the programme to life again and set it on a progressive phase . |
| 5 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 6 | Yet the paradox gets deeper if devolving budgets to the front-line is seen as the very key by which the golden doorway to needs-led rather than service-led care packages is to be opened . |
| 7 | The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution . |
| 8 | It 's so easy to just write the slip and say I 've sold my car to mister so and so . |
| 9 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't — ’ she cried , shaking her head from side to side even as her body yearned towards his . |
| 11 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 12 | b ) This permits the blade to be moved from side to side so that it can be made parallel with the sole . |
| 13 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 14 | Nevertheless technology now provides the possibility of allocating high energy and repetitive work to machines so that the typical man at work is in a supervising rather than an operating mode . |
| 15 | So that was a benefit to people outside and people inside the church . |
| 16 | about six o'clock I 'd quite like to go and have a chat to Bob otherwise if he |
| 17 | It was partly her age , of course , she was an old woman by anyone 's standards , but her attitude to life too and her clothes , her grey tweed skirt and green Viyella blouse and green and grey check cardigan , her stockings and ‘ court ’ shoes , the powder on her nose , lipstick on her thin old lips and the perm in her hair . |
| 18 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 19 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 20 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 21 | There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) . |
| 22 | This in itself is a great help to designers even before any analysis of their new product is undertaken . |
| 23 | This in itself is a great help to designers even before any analysis of their new product is undertaken . |
| 24 | Interestingly , scientists are now saying that odour is different in degree to memory rather than different in kind . |
| 25 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 26 | The meeting made it clear that the main reason for changes in relationships between the Council and the colleges was ‘ the need to give greater independence to colleges rather than the pressure of work at the Council ’ . |
| 27 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 28 | This does not make opencast coal ‘ one of the cheapest forms of energy in the UK ’ , but rather one of great profitability to BC primarily because the full social and environmental costs are not currently being paid . |
| 29 | Sunlight streamed through the windscreen , settling burnished rays over his black hair , turning his olive complexion to gold so that for a moment his face took on the appearance of a mask . |
| 30 | LANCASHIRE crashed to a 60-run defeat at home to Essex yesterday but it could be a blessing in disguise . |