Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] their [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely to be up to 10 years before the banks would be able either to sell their stake on the local stock market or to pass on their holdings to other investors . |
| 2 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 3 | Sir : Dr Paul Robertshaw ( 3 October ) suggests that the frequent practice of the rich ( typical libel plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity acts ‘ as an additional and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling ’ . |
| 4 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 5 | What is clear however is that the liberating influence of peer group learning , the facility to discuss with other commonly faced problems , to share common interests , and to relate directly their experiences to our own , in our own terms , is a powerful learning tool for social development . |
| 6 | This is hardly surprising , for there were very few museums , and the high cost of oriental rugs ensured that they were only affordable by the very rich , who were understandably not inclined to open up their houses to public view . |
| 7 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 8 | If you grant racist ideologies their own relatively autonomous conditions of existence , however , you might be inclined to give a higher priority to educational or cultural issues , whilst at the same time taking care , not to bracket out their links to other dimensions of racism . |
| 9 | When I lived in South London unscrupulous property developers were buying up the-freeholds of converted houses at auctions and raising the ground rents to astronomical figures in order to force people to sell back their flats to them . |
| 10 | Over the next decade , several factors could complicate the metals scene still further , making it even more difficult for governments to weigh up their approach to issues such as stockpiling . |
| 11 | The markets ' obsession with credit ratings has spawned a sideline for investment banks : advising clients how to spruce up their presentations to the rating agencies . |
| 12 | The bill also breaches the confidentiality enjoyed by many professions — notably lawyers , doctors and journalists — who do not usually have to give up their files to the police . |
| 13 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 14 | He was a hippie when hippiedom was in fashion : he grew his hair long and then ( when people began to give up their seats to him on buses , under the impression that he was a pregnant girl ) he grew a straggly beard as a declaration of sex . |
| 15 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 16 | The regarders , like the verderers , were frequently amerced at Forest Eyres for failure to carry out their duties to the satisfaction of the judges — for failing to appear with the other regarders to make the regard , or to take the regarders ' oath , or to present their rolls of the regard on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or for losing their rolls , or for incompleteness in their returns . |
| 17 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 18 | Dramatic play is an important stage which people need to go through to build up their commitment to the work , but do n't expect learning to take place without teacher intervention . |
| 19 | The precise mechanisms of action and interaction of these factors on carcinogenesis require elucidation in order to understand fully their relationship to colonic cell proliferation . |
| 20 | ANTI-POLL tax activists have claimed a victory after sheriff officers were forced to call off their visit to a house in Bonnyrigg . |
| 21 | It enables prisoners to pay off their debts to society by working hard and banking the money . |
| 22 | Both parents need to think out their attitudes to discipline and discuss them fully . |
| 23 | It said Clerical Medical & General Life Assurance and Royal Insurance , which between them own 37.4pc of Brixton 's existing shares , had undertaken to take up their rights to the new issue in full . |
| 24 | Sotheby 's in Ireland present an Oriental — Islamic advisory day , along the lines of an Antique Roadshow , where members of the public are invited to bring along their items to be valued by the Sotheby experts . |
| 25 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 26 | Seventeen people died in armed clashes in Palestinian-controlled areas east of Sidon on Feb. 15 , when members of Fatah suppressed a rebellion by other Fatah regulars who were refusing to hand over their positions to the Lebanese army . |
| 27 | Some former social therapy clients describe being asked to inform NAP of their whereabouts at all times so they could be contacted for party activity , or to hand over their children to the party 's care in order to devote more time to politics . |
| 28 | The hurlers get the chance to show off their skills to a whole new audience after staging a miraculous recovery in the drawn game when they trailed by 12 points at half-time . |
| 29 | At the beginning of February A C Canoe Products and Palm got together at Ace 's factory to show off their products to dealers and to reveal the secrets of rotational moulding to those not already in the know … |
| 30 | Perhaps it was because the glamorous life was too far away to show off their child to friends and relatives . |