Example sentences of "to [noun] [coord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for the antediluvian bowl-heads , a right-thinking retailer phoned the RSPCA on the grounds that it was cruel to goldfish and so the whole idea had to be binned . |
| 2 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 3 | The new competition created by all these external and internal forces has increased the barriers to entry and thus the degree of global concentration in many industries . |
| 4 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 5 | Happily , most of Gary 's friends are back to work and even the most seriously injured are recovering well . |
| 6 | The ruins passed to starboard and then the lighthouse . |
| 7 | THE MARS bar has many claims to fame but perhaps the strangest is its use as a guide to the economy , particularly the cost of living . |
| 8 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 9 | Both are worried that Keith is embarking on the long downhill road to delinquency and even the nursery staff have resorted to clichés to describe his behaviour . |
| 10 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 11 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 12 | In Sardinia dining is about excellence from start to finish and even the most demanding of gourmet will be well satisfied by the choice and quality . |
| 13 | Preservation , it was claimed , had not only jeopardized the market 's move to Docklands but even the survival of the fishing industry of Great Britain ! |
| 14 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |
| 15 | Most people would have keyed in their birthday as one of the few six-digit numbers — if you put a zero in front of single figures and for the months up to October and just the last two digits of the year — they can remember apart from their telephone number . |
| 16 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 17 | The recessed set then forms the 19.45 to Machynlleth and apparently the 20.50 to Pwllheli . |
| 18 | It was immediately clear that the weakest area was in information management , where major improvements are needed in order to exploit and make available to staff and public the large and complex information resources present within RBG . |
| 19 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 20 | You know the entertainer first gives himself to God and then the public . ’ |
| 21 | It followed that the periods varied in length from season to season and hence the duration of the hours fluctuated . |
| 22 | ‘ to persons in or on that vehicle ( or trailer ) 'means that the danger or potential danger is sufficient if it applies to passengers or even the driver of the motor vehicle concerned . |
| 23 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 24 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ But all this has to be seen in the context of what is going to happen to Britain and indeed the world in a climate of great tension between nations . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah we went to France and then the thing about the bath came back and we all had a bath but we were all wearing clothes |
| 27 | She returns to prostitution but then the final exploiter , the pimp , forces himself onto the scene and her life effectively comes to an end . |
| 28 | I heard Luney arrive , heard her talking to Franky and then the boat going away . |
| 29 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 30 | Although Mabel was a more sympathetic personality than her sister Ethel , when it came to discipline she was equally strict , the difference being that she did not take pleasure in enforcing the ruthless repetition that was necessary to get the routines to perfection and consequently the Girls adored her . |