Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 2 | Blue Arrow plc , a UK employment agency which Mr Reed was responsible for bringing to the bank in 1985 , was seen as a valuable addition . |
| 3 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 4 | Thank You for bringing to this country men who are good listeners , who hear Your instructions and obey . ’ |
| 5 | Personal papers , diaries and autobiographies are exceedingly valuable for bringing to light how past parents coped with the difficult task of rearing their children . |
| 6 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 7 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 8 | There are substantial reasons for attributing to Evesham the monuments to Hester Salusbury ( died 1614 , Stansted Mountfitchet , Essex ) ; Robert Rich , first Earl of Warwick ( died 1619 , Snarford , Lincolnshire ) ; Sir Justinian Lewin ( died 1620 , Otterden , Kent ) ; John Troughton ( died 1621 , Ingatestone , Essex ) , and the black stone panel engraved with allegorical devices in commemoration of Guy Carleton ( died 1628 , Cuckfield , East Sussex ) . |
| 9 | The papers had accused Neethling of issuing poison to members of so-called hit squads for administering to anti-apartheid activists . |
| 10 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 11 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 12 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 13 | Mrs. Michie : I note your ruling about sticking to the new clause , Mr. Deputy Speaker . |
| 14 | A procedure for transforming to a frame in free fall is described in Section 6.6 . |
| 15 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 16 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
| 17 | Responses in experimental tests , such as reacting to one of a range of flashing lights , have been used to study selective attention . |
| 18 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 19 | Facts appear solid , values fluid ; there are firm reasons for accepting , if only provisionally , scientific laws of nature , none for submitting to canons of taste or to the moral law . |
| 20 | Thatcher said that the UK was ‘ financially sound ’ , there was a ban on overtime ( voluntary ) on British Rail ; the US was organising sanctions against Poland for daring to be taken over by the military and the Social Science Research Council , to muffled cheers and sobs , got a £1 million cut . |
| 21 | Parish councillors at Robin Hood 's Bay are calling for policing to be stepped up . |
| 22 | As the major design route passes from analysis , through scheming to manufacturing , it is possible to recognize systems which have their origins in each of these main areas . |
| 23 | The bid drew the attention of the Takeover Panel , and Burson-Marsteller , Dowty 's public relations advisers , were censured for suggesting to various newspapers during the bid that Dowty 's profits would rise considerably in the future . |
| 24 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 25 | Angry with herself for reacting to him , she peeled off her wet swimsuit and vigorously began to towel her body . |
| 26 | Chamber president Norman Campbell acknowledged Darlington had a problem with glue sniffers but praised police for reacting to complaints from traders and members of the public . |
| 27 | The latter specialise in business computers , word processors and ‘ peripheral ’ equipment for attaching to computers . |
| 28 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 29 | Above : The Noral Lanterns range of wallmounted lanterns includes the Regent Mini ( shown here ) for attaching to the wall of your house . |
| 30 | These are for attaching to the erm , tabs . |