Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff , ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East . |
| 2 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 3 | Earlier , in one of the best speeches by an outgoing party chairman in recent years , Anne McGuire added her voice to chorus of attacks on the SNP 's action . |
| 4 | And I was gon na carry and bring his coat to sort of like down there . |
| 5 | Putting one foot after the other in a style I have developed during cross-country runs organized by Cranborne School , I allowed my head to sort of loll forward and my legs to patter after it , leaving the middle bit of me completely free for inflation and deflation . |
| 6 | Some people were already turning their thoughts to food of another kind , impatient to get home . |
| 7 | Kuhn started his academic career as a physicist and then turned his attention to history of science . |
| 8 | It is likely that , in the early days , the Ayrshire owed its improvement to infusion of Dutch , Holderness Shorthorn , Highland and possibly Jersey blood . |
| 9 | Although one can speak also of being aware of the value of something , it will be essential to confine our usage to awareness of the existing , of persons , things , events . |
| 10 | Yet in today 's Britain many groups of individuals are systematically discriminated against by a society which fails to recognise their right to equality of opportunity . |
| 11 | Local legend attributes its origins to commemoration of the village 's deliverance from the Great Plague in 1665 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm just exercising my right to Freedom of Expression . ’ |
| 13 | Between three and five hundred people are believed to be in detention solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression , association or assembly or their right to leave the country . |
| 14 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 15 | At the conference held in 1888 by the three compositors " unions , the Typographical Association ( English provinces ) , the London Society of Compositors and the Scottish Typographical Association , specifically to discuss the Edinburgh question , the following resolution was passed : That while strongly of the opinion that women are not physically capable of performing the duties of a compositor , the Conference recommends their admission to membership of the various typographical unions upon the same conditions as journeymen , provided always the females are paid strictly in accordance with the scale . |
| 16 | The villagers have taken their case to Department of Transport officials in Manchester . |
| 17 | Apparently the intention of the testatrix to bind her sons to performance of a trust in favour of their descendants is not sufficiently clear . |
| 18 | Classroom teachers might find their entitlement to leave of absence curtailed . |