Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Eleanor divorced King Louis , who preferred religion to women anyway , and married Henry , who then became Duke of Aquitaine through her . |
| 2 | In windy weather there will be a definite tendency for the fuselage to weathercock round into wind unless the tail-wheel or skid is chocked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 5 | The targeting of investment to areas rather than people , and the creation of a layer of bureaucracy to ‘ represent ’ such areas , is , in other words , a critical process in the delivery of urban policy initiatives . |
| 6 | Although the leader of the Union Defence League in succession to Walter Long , he shared Law 's belief in the inevitability of ultimate compromise , and this made him , like Law , an object of suspicion to the diehard Irish Unionists . |
| 7 | Mr Major has invited the French president to dinner tomorrow in a bid to win his support . |
| 8 | It is , I think , also of interest to note that section 84 will normally come into play for the benefit of a defendant to action already begun by the local authority in the county court . |
| 9 | Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough . |
| 10 | It can be a prelude to inquiry just as questions are a spur to searching . |
| 11 | The potential social and economic costs of AIDS to countries already ravaged by poverty are enormous . |
| 12 | The sailor went off in disappointment to Morocco where , they say , he became a renegade . |
| 13 | Of course , the indifference to time generally attributed to medieval people was not absolute . |
| 14 | And she she 's primary ed so she 's no good to Jean either . |
| 15 | Remember I 'm no trollop to while away the hours for you . ’ |
| 16 | Even a genetic predisposition to psychosis usually has to be ‘ potentiated ’ by one or both of the other causes . |
| 17 | If there is any predisposition to psychosis then the changes induced can be permanent . |
| 18 | It is always possible that some ingenious modification of its protective belt will lead to some spectacular discovery that will bring the programme to life again and set it on a progressive phase . |
| 19 | It also offers users the option to trade up to HP 700/RX stations or to add X terminals to their networks , and is claimed to be the only industry programme to o so . |
| 20 | The parries in opposition to Government now decided to infiltrate the police and also to influence government servants . |
| 21 | But the evidence is incontrovertible , and Anselm based his later opposition to homage entirely on the decree of 1099 . |
| 22 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 23 | Both Simon Draper and Ken Berry had been vehement in their opposition to Branson even contemplating rehiring Wilson , and advised him to now tear up the contract and be done with it . |
| 24 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 25 | Haig had ordered the artillery to bombard not merely the enemy front-line trenches but those to the rear , to prevent German reinforcements coming up . |
| 26 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 27 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough sends its second City Challenge bid to London today . |
| 29 | The reasons for this higher proportion than might be expected demographically are partly ‘ localist ’ ( specialism in an area is a distinct class of subject partition ) , but also because of the strength of indigenous departments in national terms , and the applicability of Scottish research to problems elsewhere . |
| 30 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |