Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous research projects were set up to investigate patterns of transmitted deprivation where families appear to hand down problems from generation to generation . |
| 2 | While the children each paid 25p to come to school in clothes of their own choice , the staff dressed up St. Trinians style in uniform . |
| 3 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 4 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 5 | In particular , if one compares the provisions relating to recovery of expenses in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 with those in Schedule 10 to the Act of 1985 it is clear that the whole scheme has been rewritten and amended in accordance with recommendations in the Law Commission Report on the Consolidation of the Housing Acts ( 1985 ) ( Law Com . |
| 6 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 7 | The protection is not confined to interference with contracts of employment but where the contract affected is not a contract of employment , there are restrictions on the use of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 8 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 9 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 10 | DNA distribution patterns analysed by cytophotometry , however , have been shown to relate to survival in patients from Japan . |
| 11 | Three Israeli factory workers were stabbed to death by members of the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement in the Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa on Dec. 14 . |
| 12 | Roads were turned to mud by days of rain and Fiorio had the additional hardship of a bubbling radiator to contend with . |
| 13 | The general effect of SOGIT 1973 and the SGSA 1982 is to equate the implied conditions applied to sale in transactions of supply . |
| 14 | As we have indicated above there is now considerable evidence that degree performance for traditionally qualified students is related to performance in examinations before entry , although most of the research relates to England and A-level entry ( Sear , 1983 ; Bourner and Hamed , 1987 ; Johnes and Taylor , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | If Italian politicians can not be moved to action by protests from within their own country , it is up to us outside Italy to turn on the pressure in the world media . |
| 16 | The unwary climber is dive-bombed by irate parent birds as speckled chicks freeze to stillness behind clumps of raffia-like moor grass . |
| 17 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 18 | There 's only so much you can do to jazz up articles on the efficacy of heart tapping in achieving full blood drainage . |
| 19 | After a successful rescue the small party is relentlessly pursued by the Viet Cong , but they are airlifted to safety by helicopters of the Air Cavalry . |
| 20 | He was so tired he had to be hauled to safety by members of the public . |
| 21 | In overall terms , there was a net gain of 9 per cent in the population of rural districts between 1951 and 1961 , mainly owing to overspill from towns like Darlington and some growth in market towns such as Barnard Castle . |
| 22 | Owing to shortage of teachers in nurse education , and the number of learners , we are gradually returning to learning by discovery , with the teacher acting as guide , counsellor and facilitator — in other words , the learner is doing . |
| 23 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 24 | Jones played on , helping back row partner Adrian Varney grab two tries , before going to hospital for x-rays on his jaw . |
| 25 | She was being shepherded to safety by police after the first blast when the second bomb exploded just 50 ft away . |
| 26 | The European Commission are working for radical cuts leading to abolition of subsidies throughout the Community and we strongly support their efforts . |
| 27 | Many of the younger recruits are regarded by older hands as extremely idealistic , a quality deemed more vice than virtue since too passionate a commitment to controlling pollution leads to aggressiveness in dealings with dischargers . |
| 28 | Talcott Parsons argues that this inevitably leads to inequality in terms of power and prestige . |
| 29 | This is not good practice as it leads to confusion amongst users with an increased possibility of errors that may lead to the very problem the procedure was trying to avoid . |
| 30 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |