Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GCC states — in the diplomatic as in other fields , generally inclined to support Iraq — had lobbied vigorously during the run-up to the Security Council vote for the emergence of a form of words incorporating censure of Iran . |
| 2 | The Gazette reported their arrival in Fleetwood 's main street : ‘ The car with its brilliantly illuminated electrical devices , was a sight which overwhelmed the people in the street with astonishment , broken later by applause as the car passed slowly through the town to the terminus ’ . |
| 3 | All creatures communicate only in the manner to which they are instinctively and inwardly programmed . |
| 4 | The principle of induction can not be justified merely by an appeal to logic . |
| 5 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 6 | She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee . |
| 7 | Cenwulf 's dealings with Sussex are witnessed only by a grant to the bishop of Selsey from 801 . |
| 8 | Yet in the matter of the primacy , which entailed the most extensive ecclesiastical power in western Europe apart from that of the papacy , he fought stubbornly from the beginning to the end of his archiepiscopate against every papal or local obstacle to the exercise of this power . |
| 9 | It is fair to say that the disposals ranged widely from the good to the very poor . |
| 10 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 11 | Voters will need to know enough about the candidates to be able to judge their relative merits . |
| 12 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 13 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 14 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 15 | Ballantine , of Birchburn , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road last 13 July and while over the limit . |
| 16 | Ballantine , of Mossat House , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road and while over the limit . |
| 17 | I did n't know enough about the subject to be able to query it . |
| 18 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 19 | Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy . |
| 20 | Luke moved swiftly round the desk to where she sat , and she flinched as he put out a hand , lifting a loose , shining curl away from the side of her brow . |
| 21 | ‘ I imagined kidnapping you , driving away into the mountains to some remote spot and forcing you to say you 'd forgive and forget . |
| 22 | Maxim stopped just inside the door to the public bar and looked around . |
| 23 | When they moved away from the fire to the outer rooms the steady constant drip of rain from the eaves in the silence was like peace falling . |
| 24 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 25 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 26 | She stopped close to the entrance to St Martin 's and walked up the steep path of a tiny church , ancient before St Thomas was born . |
| 27 | In such cases , although adult reaction and response to questions and discussion can not be expected , I feel that the child can be approached directly with a view to exploring the significance of the behaviour to himself or herself . |
| 28 | Just to make sure , however , I moved quickly through the showers to poolside and dived in . |
| 29 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 30 | But much will hang also on the extent to which teachers succumb to the temptation to teach for the test , and thereby create a classroom atmosphere that focuses narrowly on learning the content and the skills that will be tested , and is therefore less lively , less varied , more repetitive and more anxiety-provoking for the pupils . |