Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 2 | Britain has apparently undertaken to review its own aid to Vietnam once it becomes clear that forced repatriation is working smoothly , and that Hanoi keeps to its side of the bargain , not to punish boat people who are deported from Hong Kong . |
| 3 | ALAN Kernaghan is ready to book a World Cup passage to America but it means waving goodbye to Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |
| 5 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 6 | At some time Bracy Clark had lent £500 to Bond , and his widow , unable to discharge the debt , gave the skeleton to Clark and it remained in his study until shortly before his death . |
| 7 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 8 | Its secession , however , would be a blow to Serbia because it controls the narrow strip of Adriatic coast that includes the rump federation 's only commercial port and naval base . |
| 9 | A MOUSE brought rush-hour chaos to Birmingham when it bit through wires in a traffic light control unit . |
| 10 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 11 | The points made , the order of delivery and even some of the phrases used so closely resemble Scott 's first letter to Palmerston that it seems likely that Elcho had been briefed by Scott . |
| 12 | She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people . |
| 13 | I admit to having been a bit sceptical beforehand about this year 's family holiday to Florida but it turned out to be a huge success , not least on account of the terrific food and service we encountered everywhere . |
| 14 | The charity organisation assessed the hospital 's needs on its last visit to Romania when it took out over 30 tons of relief aid on three articulated lorries . |