Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | People 's propensity to misjudge the context of a reference is an indication of their willingness to assimilate the situations they encounter to paradigms of thought and action with which they are familiar , however misleading or falsifying this process of assimilation might be . |
| 3 | I believe that the Christian faith provides us with a unique perspective on matters of political economy which is not con fined to issues of personal honesty and motivation , but which is also related to the basic institutions and goals of our societies . |
| 4 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 5 | The charity is to write to doctors at North Tees , South Cleveland , Darlington Memorial , Hartlepool and Bishop Auckland General Hospitals asking what they want . |
| 6 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 7 | Lautro has ordered 13 life assurance companies to withdraw some of their advertising for single premium with profits bonds , and two were requested to write to clients with a fuller explanation of the bond 's characteristics . |
| 8 | In 1838 the congregation ( and the Society ) moved to premises in South Bridge Street where they remained until 1852 when they returned to St. Stephen 's Church , this time in the school buildings . |
| 9 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 10 | Or moved to tears by its same sound . |
| 11 | Ruddock , 25 , signed a three year deal when he moved to Spurs from Southampton for £750,000 12 months ago , and claimed Venables promised him a renegotiated contract if his first season went well . |
| 12 | The squadron , which moved to Uplands in 1955 , has over the years operated a variety of transport aircraft , viz North Stars , a C-5 , Comet 1As , Yukons and Cosmopolitans . |
| 13 | Uncle Bill got a job in a joiner 's shop out Haymarket way and he moved to lodgings in Dalry Road . |
| 14 | When he moved to Rangers as a player and the red cards flourished it was a quote he was destined to regret . |
| 15 | Being unfit for service , and to escape the danger of bombing , Firbank moved to rooms in the High Street , Oxford , in October 1915 , and remained there until September 1919 . |
| 16 | In the autumn It moved to offices in Endell Street , still in Covent Garden . |
| 17 | BP was among the many leading companies and other organisations that contributed to deliberations of the committee . |
| 18 | It supposes that the community as a whole can be committed to principles of fairness or justice or procedural due process in some way analogous to the way particular people can be committed to convictions or ideals or projects , and this will strike many people as bad metaphysics . |
| 19 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 20 | He will reel out the numbers — 621 million Ecus ( £477 million ) committed to projects in eastern Europe , with outside investors adding a further 1.5 billion Ecus . |
| 21 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 22 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service . |
| 23 | Unlike our sisters and brothers overseas , who are committed to programmes of human resource development , leadership programmes , our work in this field has gone largely unsupported by training in the skills needed to motivate and conscientize others . |
| 24 | We have always been committed to programmes of investigation … and we always will be in the future . |
| 25 | Leonard , born in 1864 , educated in Germany in the 1880s , and committed to ideals of international friendship and socialism . |
| 26 | In that respect , the Government 's policy is very different from that of the main Opposition parties , both of which are committed to reductions in real terms in expenditure on our roads . |
| 27 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 28 | It is surprising that higher education libraries have not become more fully committed to aspects of the teaching of study skills , for various reasons . |
| 29 | In Minor award schools this management dimension was less significant , the smaller award confirming such positive trends as a good librarian , a history of sound internal funding , the enthusiasm of a core of teachers and at least one or two departments committed to aspects of resource-assisted learning . |
| 30 | Seaweeds grow to depths of about 100 m ; below that level plants are rare , but the sea-bed is thinly carpeted with animals that live in or on the mud and feed on the rain of debris from above . |