Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday night after he had pulled down the blind Dan Salmon handed over five sovereigns to Charlie along with several wafers of matzos . |
| 2 | Steps already taken by some manufacturers to phase out animal testing were welcome , as was the EC 's encouragement for the development of alternative tests . |
| 3 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 4 | TRIPS to Ireland recently have reinforced my view that the P ( probationer ) plate carried by those cars driven by people who have passed their driving test within the last year , are a good thing and should be adopted here . |
| 5 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 6 | Intensive livestock methods increase the susceptibility of animals to diseases easily spread by humans , and visitors threaten good farm hygiene ; and the danger can easily be reversed — some farming operations , particularly spraying , threaten visitors . |
| 7 | And having found a vantage-point where he had a clear view of the meadows and was himself sheltered , he halted his pony and stood to watch , narrowing his eyes to single out coat-armour , and number the forces in the English party . |
| 8 | There are no concessions to sentimentality either in the 1966 performance of Franck 's D minor Symphony which is coupled with Schumann 's Piano Concerto featuring Annie Fischer as soloist ( ) . |
| 9 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 10 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 11 | ‘ One of them places where they have rooms for drivers to kip down for the night . |
| 12 | However , this enthusiasm to convey solutions to pupils often ends up by precluding the pupils ' own ideas and can not only be inhibiting but also take away the pupils ' enjoyment of getting there themselves . |
| 13 | Today it is in demand all over the world either from people bringing their legal disputes to courts here , or from those wishing to come here and study law . |
| 14 | For example , Lloyd 's Register surveyors invariably decline to be nominated as experts to determine technical disputes during construction , for this very reason ; and the parties usually refer disputes to arbitration rather than expert determination . |
| 15 | Fixing kitchen units to walls always poses problems for the ‘ one-man ’ DIYer , but it can be simplified . |
| 16 | Elsewhere national language maps are exceptionally complex , ranging from large and clearly educationally viable groups like Hausa or Luganda through progressively smaller units to situations where numbers speaking the mother tongue are very small or very scattered . |
| 17 | He must be at least six feet two , she decided confusedly , wondering why those blue eyes turned her legs to jelly so quickly . |
| 18 | Thanks to Ma really , he thought , and grinned , thanks to her fall and not being able to manage the washing herself . |
| 19 | Pound — thanks to Hewlett probably more than anyone else — had , at the time of his dinner party for Hewlett and Prothero and the rest , the chance of moving into that society . |
| 20 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |
| 21 | These youngsters are , of course , rather older than James Bulger , and thanks to Carol better able now to fend off strangers . |
| 22 | During its early years this Church was well supported , thanks to Mrs Still , with social functions for young and old . |
| 23 | But give thanks to God above ? |
| 24 | But thanks to drivers as indomitable as their machines , Timbuctu could become the Le Mans of the desert . |
| 25 | Despite all of these bad aspects to life here I love this place , Donald . |
| 26 | The conference was broadly enough based to include both Samuel Gurney and the intemperate American Garrisonian , Parker Pillsbury , but although the BFASS committee supported a resolution encouraging American abolitionists of all ‘ persuasions , it refused to eat enough of its past words to single out for particular mention the American Anti-Slavery Society , associated with the Garrison 's ‘ heretical ’ notions . |
| 27 | Those were his opening words to Moses then . |
| 28 | He lowered his own head again , allowing his lips to pressure gently over her face , seeking their pleasure over the rise and fall of her face and neck . |
| 29 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 30 | And if recent reports are anything to go by it was n't only aircraft which were paying their respects to Parham yesterday . |