Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One contained the tomb of one of Bosnia 's most famous sons , Serhad Pasha Sokolovic , a Christian convert to Islam who became Suleiman the Magnificent 's grand vizier . |
| 2 | Where these signs are not obvious , subtler discriminations can be made : Quebecois who refuse to understand anglophones who talk in a Canadian accent , will respond to anglophones who talk with a British or US intonation , as Flemings who claim not to understand French spoken with a Belgian accent , understand French French . |
| 3 | But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed . |
| 4 | Highest score of the day went to Norbury who hit 228–5 at Hartford , Pete Holland scoring 116 . |
| 5 | The moral authority of law gets a foothold in the idea that it is rational to give special consideration to views which result from a process of impartial , informed and capable reflection , and this not simply because this process helps us to know more precisely what will promote independently ascertained moral goals but also because it is liable to result in superior judgements about what goals we ought to pursue ( Campbell , 1971 ) . |
| 6 | One ‘ hangover ridden ’ shortness of response , or a snappy turn-off to views you do n't like , causes infinite harm . |
| 7 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 8 | It represents a major synthesis in what has become an increasingly complex field and , because the approach is founded so solidly on comparative nutrition , should be of interest to biologists who work on wild and domesticated herbivores . |
| 9 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 10 | When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably . |
| 11 | When George Orwell went to Sheffield he visited the area and described the conditions of houses in Wallace Street . |
| 12 | Since we spoke to Adaku she has moved away . |
| 13 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 14 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 15 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 16 | His father owned a record shop in Baltimore and before he went to university he had become the buyer for the shop , a job which provided an unlikely education . |
| 17 | improved value for money should be obtained by cutting down on unnecessary procedures , ( e.g. committals , remand hearings ) , strengthening controls on the progress of legally aided proceeding , changing listing practices , and restricting legal aid to solicitors who have demonstrated competence by membership of an appropriate panel ; |
| 18 | We feel very strongly that people should have access to solicitors who have knowledge of immigration law , and who can protect people by explaining the difficult legislation and regulations dealing with immigration policy . |
| 19 | The result for n = 1 is found by letting n tend to unity which shows that the second term in the expression is while the first term is zero . |
| 20 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 21 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 22 | Being called away to prayer she clutched the book to her bosom and having forbidden Lambarde to fall upon his knees before her , concluded , " Farewell good and honest Lambarde " . |
| 23 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 24 | It would show whether the US and the Soviet Union really had a role to play in Europe and it would be up to Germans themselves to work out their international posture . |
| 25 | Man 's activities can affect sea-birds in many ways : pollution of the sea , either by chemical elements dispersed in the water column which may poison their food , or surface pollution , for example , by oil spillage , can be the direct cause of death to birds which have no option but to use the sea surface . |
| 26 | The company markets a wheatless version that would appeal to chefs who want an unadulterated product . |
| 27 | The review proposes a national insurance contribution ‘ holiday ’ to employers who recruit the long-term unemployed , although it admits that the Treasury would probably veto the plan . |
| 28 | The diversity of skills it develops makes history graduates particularly attractive to employers who seek flexibility of mind rather than specialised expertise in a single discipline . |
| 29 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 30 | Four pilot Workstart schemes will be started , offering financial assistance to employers who take on people who have been long-term unemployed . |