Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 2 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 3 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 4 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 5 | We 've devolved the money to schools , but they 've got to spend most of it back with the council here . |
| 6 | Keith said : ‘ If a wave had caught it it would have smashed the craft to pieces . |
| 7 | He told the inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that he had reported the matter to supervisors and a new radio system was planned . |
| 8 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've torn the place to pieces and could n't even find a handbag . |
| 10 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 11 | The jury 's note should have alerted the judge to problems that might occur . |
| 12 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 13 | In August the Moscow authorities restricted the sale to non-residents of scarce goods , following similar decisions in other cities . |
| 14 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 15 | Anyway that 's got that 's put the world to rights has n't it ? |
| 16 | We 've put the world to rights |
| 17 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 18 | The exchange has roused the analyst to contributions that are firmer and more energy-consuming than those he generally vouchsafes : ‘ it 's not the past but what we make of the past that shapes our future and present . ’ |