Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland , asking permission to nominate him as president . |
| 2 | I have no information with which to write to the Chairman of the Committee asking it to investigate the sale . |
| 3 | Please could I ask you to find a few minutes to write to the Secretary of State for Wales , Welsh Office , Cathays Park , Cardiff CF1 3NQ , urging him to persuade his cabinet colleagues of the importance of finding time for an Environment Bill which includes these measures . |
| 4 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 5 | The secretary was directed to write to the Master of the Horse , asking leave to nominate him as president of the College at the forthcoming general meeting . |
| 6 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 7 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 8 | It is a good idea to get some of the conservation bodies to write to the Department of the Environment supporting the listing application as well , particularly the Georgian Group or Victorian Society if the building falls within their remit . |
| 9 | Coun Davies wants Aberconwy Borough Council to write to the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , asking that the safeguard be written into exploration contracts being negotiated . |
| 10 | Immediately after The Builder published its report about Hall 's conclave on 30th August , 1856 , architects began to write to the Office of Works asking for details . |
| 11 | Moreover , when in 1870 urban administrative councils ( dumy ) analogous to the rural zemstvos were established , even the most prominent commoners tended to defer to the minority of nobles represented on the councils . |
| 12 | Thus the closing months of 1954 found the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arguing ( exactly on the lines feared by the British ) " that the timely achievement of the broad objective of U.S. security policy can not be brought about if the United States is required to defer to the counsel of the most cautious among our Allies " . |
| 13 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 14 | Whether the farm worker preferred to defer to the authority of his ‘ betters ’ , or fight against it , or merely accept it as a fact of life and accommodate to it as best he could , he recognized that there was a clear , qualitative difference between this relationship and that with his fellow workers . |
| 15 | Earlier cases had tended to defer to the judgment of the police officer on the spot without setting out an objective definition to which he or she was required to adhere . |
| 16 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 17 | Apart from the Society of Friends , there was no established organisation ready to come to the help of children under threat in Czechoslovakia . |
| 18 | Their society is co-operative , with many examples of seemingly altruistic behaviour , and dolphins are always ready to come to the assistance of those in distress , both their own species and humans . |
| 19 | JUST BEFORE he was taken hostage , Terry Waite had promised to come to the laying of the foundation stone of the North East Cheshire Hospice , in Macclesfield . |
| 20 | An appeal by Landsbergis for Lithuanians to come to the defence of parliament was answered by several thousand people who formed a cordon around the building . |
| 21 | Others , such as the Prime Minister , Juan Negrín , advocated struggling on , in the hope that the situation in Europe would degenerate into an open conflict with Hitler and Mussolini , and that this , in turn , would oblige the western democracies to come to the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 22 | She held onto herself , trying to come to the surface of her cranial quicksand . |
| 23 | She moved violently in her sleep — and started to come to the surface of that sleep , just as , outside the hotel , there was a sudden screech of tyres on tarmac as brakes were slammed on . |
| 24 | Their work is more likely to come to the attention of headquarters staff ‘ in practice … ’ , as a senior man put it , ‘ only when there 's a cock-up ’ . |
| 25 | This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation . |
| 26 | In the most emotional speech of the day , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Vice-President , appealed for parliament to come to the aid of the Russian minority in the TransDniestr region of Moldova , the scene of bitter fighting in recent months . |
| 27 | BIOTECHNOLOGY seems set to come to the aid of the short children of America . |
| 28 | However , your willingness to come to the aid of your fellow readers is causing a few headaches in our office . |
| 29 | ‘ It is reasonable for the telecommunications industry to come to the aid of law enforcement . |
| 30 | All the British and Americans need to do is convince the Shiites of Iraq that they now realize they were wrong not to come to the aid of the Shiite uprising . |