Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safety includes safety in the context of risks of damage to property as well as in the context of risks of death or personal injury . |
| 2 | both offer grounds to favour support teaching methods in preference to withdrawal where possible ; |
| 3 | She slumps , exhausted , moving only her eyes from side to side as she follows our next exchange . |
| 4 | Norris ' ideas seem highly plausible and if this amazing and beautiful process is a correct understanding of part of the physical aspects of the dolphin 's 3-D sonar system , it also explains why they move their heads from side to side while they are emitting their characteristic echo-locating clicks — they are simply scanning their targets for angular , 3-D information . |
| 5 | He raised the tension from episode to episode until the mill girls of the north and midlands had to buy their own copies rather than waiting to borrow one . |
| 6 | In brief , then , the two main parties have adopted rather different philosophical stands in relation to equality though this does not mean that they have translated these into practical policies when in government . |
| 7 | A great avalanche of steel and concrete had crashed downwards into the shaft which had been the stairwell ; gathering bulk , weight and destructive momentum from floor to floor as it collapsed . |
| 8 | So I have spoken instead of forms of knowledge , and allowed the various possible objects of knowledge to surface where they will . |
| 9 | The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder against liability at law for damages and claimants costs and expenses and all costs and expenses incurred with its written consent in respect of death of or bodily injury to any person and up to a limit of £1,000,000 for damage to property where such death injury or damage arises out of an accident caused by or in connection with |
| 10 | ‘ What 's the percentage of uranium to plutonium after the elements have been reprocessed ? ’ |
| 11 | Bukharin realised , just as well as Preobrazhensky , that there would have to be a transfer of resources to industry if industrialisation was to proceed . |
| 12 | The only reported appeal in Scotland against liability to detention while on leave of absence concerned a patient who was spending three or four days at home each week . |
| 13 | In the evening Kalchu went round the village from house to house until he found someone who was going to the Bazaar the following day . |
| 14 | Voyages took the seaman from port to port where his life was led in the streets , alleys and boarding houses of yet other seagoing communities , a ready prey to disease and vice of all kinds . |
| 15 | The other departments will inevitably come into conflict with marketing from time to time because the latter 's need to satisfy customers requires an adaptability that does not fit into their drive for efficiency of operations . |
| 16 | She works in the bookshop from time to time cos she 's only got the two has n't she , Robin and Stephan . |
| 17 | Such a calculation is not a perfect one , and there is bound to be a failure from time to time if you are really trying to achieve that objective . |
| 18 | Does the Minister accept that patients , irrespective of age group , should not have to undergo prolonged suffering , being fobbed off with medication from time to time when cardiac surgery is necessary ? |
| 19 | That is a higher proportion of beds in relation to population than in England . |
| 20 | It is sometimes salutary to imagine yourself selling your clients product from door to door when clarity and persuasion would help you far more than oratory . |
| 21 | You will be moving round the room from child to child because every child is doing something different , different as an individual — if he is not it is perhaps your fault . |
| 22 | Since World War II , they have both surrendered empires , acquired nuclear forces , fought distant wars , maintained troops in Germany , and devoted a larger share of output to defence than the European average . |
| 23 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 24 | Another alternative is divided responsibility ; it then rests with the functional departments involved and changes from department to department as the project moves ahead . |
| 25 | Muscle cramps can be relieved , and the animal 's sense of balance restored , by rocking a stranded dolphin or whale from side to side as the tide comes in , just before its refloating . |
| 26 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 27 | Matthew shook his head from side to side as though trying to make a comprehensive denial . |
| 28 | He began turning his head from side to side as he ran , to locate the source of the unknown danger . |
| 29 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 30 | We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur . |