Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ? |
| 2 | Regular meetings are held with residents to better understand their problems and share information on C&P operations . |
| 3 | Palaces are designed by architects to be looked at rather than lived in . |
| 4 | The singer 's life contained enough misbehaviour to make director Oliver Stone 's job easy ( pace that notorious gig in Miami when Jimbo bared more than his soul ) ; his songs are riddled with references to drugs and sex ; and — making the film a dead cert — he obligingly took an early bath in Paris in '71 . |
| 5 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 6 | Viruses can also spread if computers are linked by modems to the outside world . |
| 7 | When a table is transferred into the Working-Set the entries are allocated as bundles to groups of lexicographers . |
| 8 | The Oxford Record Linkage Study does not collect information about prescriptions but data are collected about admissions to hospital for peptic ulcer . |
| 9 | Disaffected Cantarero supporters were considered by observers to be a danger to future constitutional order . |
| 10 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 11 | The programme is prefaced by tributes to Arlott from Richie Benaud and Ian Botham , but is otherwise unchanged from the original , as reviewed in WCM Oct 1988 . |
| 12 | The task of this chapter is to look at attitudes to ageing and old people , to look at their consequences and to consider changing them . |
| 13 | The problem here is that unless some attempt is made by sociolinguists to ‘ unpack ’ the pertinent variables for which social class stands proxy , progress in formulating a satisfying explanation of the relationships between linguistic and social structure is likely to be slow . |
| 14 | Nearly half the songs on Lovesexy explicitly expound Prince 's nebulous ideas about salvation , and the rest of the album is limned with references to a ‘ new power ’ , a positivism that is our answer to the problems of a world that 's going to hell in a handbasket . |
| 15 | However , the latter figure is based on answers to a question in the 1981 census about the country of birth of one 's head of household , and can not be considered very accurate . |
| 16 | Furthermore , all donated blood is tested for antibodies to HIV and other blood-borne infections before it is used . |
| 17 | The accounts of the aforementioned sieges are dotted with references to the importance of neighbouring churches as lookout and artillery directing points ; of local hills used by signallers ; of the construction of ‘ sconces ’ ( outlying strongholds ) ; of the siting of artillery pieces on rising ground , or in woods within range of the besieged ; of troops lying in ambush in local lanes ; of the use of church bells to sound alarms and of church registers to record the names of those slain in skirmishes . |
| 18 | No less a masterwork though , as the military complexes of America and Russia are reduced by circumstances to mere personal bickering while the countdown to global destruction ( and a life of harem-shagging in coal mines for the ‘ lucky ’ survivors ) ticks relentlessly away . |
| 19 | But most of them have some vague understanding that past judicial decisions must be respected in the future , and anyone 's practical experience with litigation will confirm this sense , for the opinions of judges are stuffed with references to earlier decisions of other judges . |
| 20 | In getting the bombs to where they can be used , air crews are helped by extensions to their senses — infra-red vision , light amplification and radar for night flight — all of which rely on electronics . |
| 21 | These barriers were identified by references to those outlined in the 1985 White Paper , " Completing the Internal Market " , and by a series of surveys of businesses in the EC . |
| 22 | Individual responses in a class test were compared with responses to the same items presented in an interview : many were found to differ . |
| 23 | England were hampered by injuries to the Hightown pair , goalkeeper Carolyn Reid and striker Tina Cullen , which prevented both from playing . |
| 24 | In addition , we have increased the Occupiers and Family Personal Liability cover from £250,000 to £500,000 to take account of the very large settlements being made by Courts to accident victims nowadays . |
| 25 | One should remember , however , that similar criticisms were levied at delegates to the Church Congresses of the period . |
| 26 | Particular outstanding work is dealing with changes to the Community Charge Register which have to be reflected in the Council Tax liabilities , approximately 30,000 changes were to be processed in this area . |
| 27 | People on low incomes are entitled to rebates of up to 80 per cent , and further help is included in payments to those in receipt of income support . |
| 28 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 29 | Dissolved material may subsequently be reprecipitated or be reincorporated into other minerals , but the great proportion is carried by rivers to the ocean . |
| 30 | The nickel exploration programme in north-east Scotland was initiated following references to the nickel content of a particular soil type developed over ultrabasic rocks in the Belhelvie area ( Glentworth and Muir , 1963 ) . |