Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its value for money technique spread from London to the Midlands and North . |
| 2 | It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities . |
| 3 | Creditor business continues to be affected by the poor economic climate but the rating action taken in response to current levels of unemployment is resulting in an improving trend particularly in the second half of the year . |
| 4 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 5 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid , net investment income increased from $84.5m to $97.1m , a growth rate in original currencies of 8.6% |
| 6 | The command vehicle rocked from side to side . |
| 7 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 8 | There have been no serious attempts to eradicate anophelines by the technique of irradiation sterilisation , but another USDA team performed a major trial with Anopheles albimanus sterilised by exposure to a chemical . |
| 9 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 10 | A gut , a large blood vessel and a nerve cord run from front to end through all the segments , linking and co-ordinating them . |
| 11 | In contrast , in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy the gall bladder volume decreased in response to the same dose of cholecystokinin 8 to only 51 ( 6 ) % , the difference being highly significant ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Making Glasgow 's Future ’ was a ten week exhibition in the Peoples Palace launched in response to the urgent need for the revival of British Industry . |
| 13 | In Peru it rocketed amongst under six year olds from 41% to 68% between 1980 and 1983 ; Ghana saw pre-school malnutrition swell from 35% to 54% between 1980 and 1984 ; and in Botswana child malnutrition increased from 25% to 31% between 1982 and 1984 . |
| 14 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 15 | A Greek presence is attested by the altars to Astarte and Hercules and by a gold betrothal ring inscribed in Greek to Aemilia . |
| 16 | When calico printing moved from London to Lancashire in the 1780s , a ready-made journeymen 's union went with it , whose members were so assured of their status and craft autonomy that the employers christened them " gentlemen journeymen " . |
| 17 | He was absolutely colossal — about 5 foot 10 inches tall and 6 foot wide , and carrying a riding crop covered from end to end with thick black tape . |
| 18 | The world 's greatest rock n'roll band returned in triumph to their native land last week . |
| 19 | Members of the Palestinian business community voted in elections to the Chamber of Commerce in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 18 . |
| 20 | Environmentalists fear that the programme is designed to conceal a retreat from a campaign pledge made by President Clinton to increase average fuel efficiency required by law to 40 mpg by 2000 and 45 mpg by 2015 , which has been fiercely resisted by car companies . |
| 21 | As we have seen by all that was covered in Chapter 3 , the technology of multimedia suggests a multimedia environment geared by definition to handling such images and a lot more besides . |
| 22 | A 10% drop ( to £11.3m ) in DK 's children 's books sales was a result of increased competition from what chairman and chief executive Peter Kindersley called a glut of ‘ me too ’ non-fiction in the US , inspired by DK 's extraordinary success in this genre and all vying for a place on the 10% of shelf space allotted by bookshops to children 's books ( including fiction , he pointed out ) . |
| 23 | Presidential elections were held on May 27 , amid an unprecedented nationwide security operation mounted in response to the campaign of violence and disruption waged by drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups . |
| 24 | An original draft of the Hay-Pauncefoote treaty provided for notification to and accession by third States . |
| 25 | Commenting on its most recent losses ( page five ) Advanced Logic Research Inc , Irvine , California said that more price competition reduced its turnover , and that its gross margin for the latest six months was just 14% compared with 22% in the year-ago period ; the impact of the reduction was partially offset by cost-cutting programmes , and its cash position improved by $5.5m to $35.1m during the latest six months while the company simultaneously cut bank debt $7m . |
| 26 | The ratio of pH i /uptake current evoked by D-Asp to that evoked by L-Glu was 0.98 0.10 ( 20 cells ) . |
| 27 | TWO Italian civil engineering firms have won a £23.4 million contract to upgrade part of the A74 Glasgow to Carlisle route , the first a major motorway contract awarded in Scotland to European companies . |
| 28 | They claimed substantial effects would follow from the removal of the higher duties on East Indian and Indian sugar and the termination of the 6 shillings per hundredweight bounty paid by Britain to West Indian producers for the export of their surplus to European markets . |
| 29 | When tested after 21 days , however , the latent inhibition effect produced by pre-exposure to saccharin has disappeared . |
| 30 | On testing for hepatitis B surface antigen after informed consent was obtained we found that most subjects had negative results ( 9/14 , 64% ) ; three ( 21% ; 0.03% of all those vaccinated ) had positive results ; there was no follow up testing on one patient , and the other was later found to have a low level of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen produced in response to an additional dose of vaccine . |