Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers rally to back Major |
| 2 | Top BBC leaders rally to defence of Birt |
| 3 | A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder . |
| 4 | The existence of surplus labour is not con fined to capitalism . |
| 5 | These included not only the psychiatric cases but also those suffering from tuberculosis ( nineteen patients in 1945 ) and others con fined to hospital for long periods . |
| 6 | If you 'd like one of the wall charts , which give useful hints , tips and cooking times , you can get one free if you are one of the first 100 readers to write to Prestige Pressure Cooker Wallchart Offer , Film House , 142 Wardour St , London W1V 3AU , enclosing sae . |
| 7 | Much of DEC 's future success , it estimates , rests with how well NT does in the market and whether NT ISVs will be willing to write to Alpha machines as well as Intel and MIPS . |
| 8 | They would like to write to Brownie pen-pals in Britain . |
| 9 | You 'll have to write to Lady Anyone else wish to comment on |
| 10 | It 's this ‘ woman as victim ’ angle that particularly bothers other female musicians , especially Miki Berenyi , who was moved to write to Angst after Steven Wells ' Daisy Chainsaw interview ( wrongly ) alluded to Katie Jane Garside having been mentally and sexually abused as a child . |
| 11 | Ask your Brown Owl to write to Acorn Marketing Limited or ring them on . |
| 12 | I have been asked by Messrs Grant Thornton , our financial advisors , to write to Parish Priests to provide you with the information regarding Pay As You Earn regulations . |
| 13 | Ask local car dealer to write to car manufacturers to press for the introduction of more fuel efficient cars ? |
| 14 | yeah I would , I 've got to write to Dot tomorrow |
| 15 | Hartlepool 's Conservative candidate Graham Robb intends to write to borough council chief executive Brian Dinsdale to find out if poll tax payers ' money was spent on a cabaret show to mark International Women 's Day . |
| 16 | Mr Straw is to write to Transport Secretary John MacGregor urging a probe to discover why the vandals were n't spotted and whether cash cuts were to blame . |
| 17 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 18 | Wh what I 'd like to suggest , without going through it all again , is that perhaps we could agree to ask the Town Clerk to write to Planning Department and voice our concern at the way this matter is being handled . |
| 19 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
| 20 | Basler have chosen to alter the cabin glazing to porthole style . |
| 21 | The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year . |
| 22 | Yet it still finds that the official statistics-gathering system is designed to measure the state economy , but not the rapidly growing private one . |
| 23 | Results indicated that the combination of self-paced audio-visual study , followed by verbal discussion with a librarian , was the most effective way of increasing student achievement in the ninety question test designed to measure course retention . |
| 24 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 25 | There are several devices on the market which are designed to measure the pitch angle with varying degrees of accuracy but , like everything else , the good ones are expensive . |
| 26 | Like the TACL , this test ( Bishop 1982 ) is designed to measure children 's comprehension of a range of grammatical devices . |
| 27 | Two scales of ‘ resistance ’ and ‘ interference ’ , designed to measure the intensity of obsessional distress and the intrusion of symptoms on other activities , produced a similar result . |
| 28 | If performance indicators are designed to measure change , and goals are expressed in terms of improvement , this process will be easier . |
| 29 | For this reason , Edwards ' indicators were designed to measure in various ways the extent to which speakers have contact with black friends and neighbours and participate in black social activities . |
| 30 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |