Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money sent home has become an important source of income for the country — especially from those who live in the United States and send remittances to their families in dollars . |
| 2 | The king 's need has been calculated by M. Prestwich : between 1294 and 1297 , to fight in Gascony and Flanders and to pay bribes to such allies as the king of Germany and archbishop of Cologne , some £615,000 was required . |
| 3 | The best Centaur , I think , is the Bible Centaur that we 've got , which okay it 's Bruce Rogers — it 's eighteen D on twenty-two , I think — it 's Bruce Rogers , but it 's also the monotype drawing office taking Centaur and doing things to it to make it work as a composition face at that size , beefing it up just enough so it actually holds , and that 's what his Bible 's in . |
| 4 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
| 5 | A basic motivation for recent reforms to create trust hospitals and an ‘ internal market ’ within the NHS and to allow schools to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control is also , to use a neutral phrase , to change traditional patterns of public accountability by shifting the emphasis from accountability to political bodies such as Parliament to financial accountability to auditing bodies . |
| 6 | That temporary phenomenon was possible only because of an EC support control mechanism which passed away last January and brought smiles to thousands of faces . |
| 7 | To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks . |
| 8 | On March 29 , 1990 , the commission met in Moscow and discussed barriers to Franco-Soviet trade and the bilateral deficit . |
| 9 | He soon decided that he would never be a successful artist and set out on foot to tour France and Germany and contribute articles to newspapers and magazines , including The Times . |
| 10 | After winning the collection , Hoving overpraises its considerable merits , adding in nonexistent Raphaels and Dirck Bouts to the litany of masterpieces . |
| 11 | The Dawley Telford branch chose to support the RNLI and presented cheques to the value of £430 to Wellington branch . |
| 12 | It also intended to sell its remaining holdings in Air Canada and to end contributions to the unemployment insurance programme . |
| 13 | The separation process is actually carried out outside Illustrator 88 by a utility program which allows both Pantone and process colours to be extracted from the file . |
| 14 | The use of offal for human consumption or animal feed is prohibited in the UK and export licences to the European Community have been suspended since September 1990 . |
| 15 | As the port took shape and London became the trading centre of Europe , an elaborate system of canals was built , leading away from the Thames , ramifying throughout the UK and enabling goods to be transported inland . |
| 16 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 17 | Cross the stile signed to Zennor and cross fields to Tregerthen . |
| 18 | The wealth generated by our overseas possessions was channelled back to Britain and allowed fortunes to be made and investments to be made in many new industries , including cotton , fabrics , and diverse engineering products . |
| 19 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 20 | During the same period both countries had done deals with Iran and paid ransoms to terrorist groups to get their hostages released and had been strongly criticised by Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan for breaking Western unity . |
| 21 | In that case the House of Lords stated that the Minister had a duty to give genuine consideration to a report of an inspector concerning the siting of a new town at Stevenage and to consider objections to that position . |
| 22 | In Donaghy [ 1981 ] Crim LR 644 ( Crown Court ) , the accused ordered a taxi-driver to take him from Newmarket to London and made threats to his life . |