Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) Rules relating to complaints to hospitals , the Family Health Service Authority ( FHSA ) , the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and the Health Service Commissioner . |
| 2 | A pertinent statistical table produced by Nykrog shows how clerks are always successful in the eternal triangle of sexual competition , pitted against husbands ranging from knights to peasants . |
| 3 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 4 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 5 | But sport is fighting an uphill battle against the recession and competing leisure time activities ranging from videos to computers and home shopping , the survey adds . |
| 6 | Claiming to speak at Gorbachev 's behest , and using some of the most hardline language heard from a senior official in recent years , Kryuchkov lumped together groups ranging from radicals to nationalists to economic saboteurs in warning that anti-democratic forces were " rushing to seize power on a wave of anti-communism " . |
| 7 | But it will also contain high levels of nitrates ; chlorine and/or chloramine ; and a host of other nasties ranging from metals to pesticides . |
| 8 | In relation to child care , for example , she documents how assistance given by mothers to daughters typically is more extensive than between sisters . |
| 9 | Visits made by inspectors to schools have been praised by school personnel in many instances for the value of the advice , recognition of good practice and the consequent professional support given . |
| 10 | Nonetheless any differences in some aspect of the responses made by subjects to stimuli presented in left and right visual fields may plausibly be attributed , in the absence of more compelling alternative explanations , to differences of one kind or another between left and right cerebral hemispheres , at least where a visual field effect clearly over-rides the effect of stimulus-response compatibility factors ( e.g. Anzola , Bertolini , Buchtel and Rizzolatti , 1977 ) and/or procedures to counterbalance the effect of the responding hand are incorporated into the experimental design . |
| 11 | In trying to regulate insider dealing within conglomerates by means of a Chinese Wall , obligations owed by conglomerates to customers may need to be modified . |
| 12 | Where once husbands and wives would ‘ go into mourning ’ for prescribed periods ranging from months to years , we like to see people pick themselves up and get on with it . |
| 13 | BASIC and some versions of FORTRAN contain built-in functions to convert from degrees to radians . |
| 14 | Certificates of deposit ( CDs ) are certificates issued by banks to customers ( usually firms ) for large deposits of a fixed term ( e.g. £100 000 for eighteen months ) . |
| 15 | Our terrain changed from fields to bridleways and lanes as we approached Abbotsbury once again past the old swannery . |
| 16 | A similar shift occurred on attitudes to policies which promote equal opportunities for women and ethnic minorities and the provision of abortion on the National Health Service . |
| 17 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 18 | Secondly , on the face of it , the middle class contains an extremely diverse group of workers ranging from secretaries to accountants , shop-assistants to managers , shopkeepers to social workers . |
| 19 | Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends . |
| 20 | The Education Act of 1902 brought about the establishment of secondary schools with 25 per cent of places going as scholarships to children who had passed an exam at the elementary schools . |
| 21 | City workers calling for improvements to conditions in the factories |
| 22 | The various stages of plant evolution can be seen here , from relatives of ferns found in fossils to hybrids created within the last few years . |
| 23 | Bankers acceptances are written promises issued by borrowers to banks to repay borrowed funds . |
| 24 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 25 | language work of various kinds , involving the drawing together of evidence , descriptions of artefacts , writing stories , recording observations based on trips to museums and local environment |
| 26 | By careful drafting the drafter can avoid many of the problems associated with references to periods of time . |
| 27 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 28 | Usury was forbidden among Jews but was not forbidden in loans made by Jews to foreigners . |
| 29 | An attempt to avoid liability on the part of the seller for any representations given by him/her or on his/her behalf save for replies to enquiries given by the seller 's conveyancer and stating that the buyer proceeds entirely on the basis of the buyer 's own survey and inspection . |
| 30 | These were in turn used to gross up the export values declared by respondents to estimates of exports for all exporters in Scotland . |