Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Railway Museum has a varied programme of events to interest everyone over the half-term holiday from Saturday October 24 until Sunday November 1 . |
| 2 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 3 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 4 | E & I Manager Chris Dodwell said : ‘ With the switch from construction to commissioning our role is changing as are the type of queries coming in . |
| 5 | A sum of £27,500,000 was paid by the United Arab Republic in final settlement of claims to property which was not being returned . |
| 6 | Daly , in a reduction of culture to biology which recalls Dawkins , says that relations between the sexes are ‘ subject to evolutionary change ’ ( 1970 : 145 ) . |
| 7 | The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply . |
| 8 | They are the values of physical autonomy and freedom from molestation , the liberty to decide for oneself the level of pain to subject one 's body to ( e.g. in sport ) . |
| 9 | I want a bit of face to face something more interesting this is er getting a little bit tedious . |
| 10 | Lazonick ( 1979 ) argues , for instance , that when Marx took the self-acting mule as a prime example of a technology permitting the increased subordination of labour to capital he was in fact relying , at second hand , on the claims made by the machine 's manufacturers , and that in practice the mule-spinners held a relatively superior position in the division of labour . |
| 11 | FOR THOSE who are n't aware , Jack Dee is the stand-up comedian who might look like a vampire masquerading as a stockbroker but whose singular style of delivery — deadpan sneers , disbelieving snorts of mirthless laughter , and , most refreshingly of all , blatant contempt for 99 per cent of the human race — is not only a timely call for the return of misanthropy to comedy it 's also brilliantly funny . |
| 12 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 13 | Maud Ellmann , in her brilliant reading of Eliot 's The Waste Land , ‘ Eliot 's Abjection ’ , is similarly concerned with the figure of prosopopoeia , here the giving of face to death itself — a case of killing the past by finding it already dead . |
| 14 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 15 | let me ask you something else on a development Mr I when I watched use the er help from time to time there are major items of expenditure , after the properties built , correct |
| 16 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 17 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 18 | Where the employer can justify such a requirement without regard to sex there will be no unlawful act . |
| 19 | Such sums are not obtained without some sort of commitment to success which , in contemporary terms , means circulation and advertising rather than a blind commitment to a political creed . |
| 20 | He became a Wesleyan Sunday-school teacher and an enthusiastic if unsophisticated temperance advocate — the sort of convert to respectability whose transformed life the new movement liked to advertise . |
| 21 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 22 | Users ' freedom to browse in a library collection has not only been desirable but would also appear to be linked with the right of access to information itself . |
| 23 | Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward . |
| 24 | Every so often the animal would rear , lashing out with his sharpened hooves , as the men struggled with a stream of oaths to back it into the stable . |
| 25 | Apparent indifference , quiescence and apathy might be the product of subjection to power which they feel too constrained to object to , and indeed which they may not even recognize . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is the policy of the courts in England where there is security with recourse to property which can be effected by means other than a transaction of loan or charge , not to treat it as registrable under s395 of the Companies Act 1985 ( as amended ) . |
| 27 | But in considering any possibility if development , would you agree Mrs that one must have regard to the suitability of one site versus another site in relation to damage which might be caused ? |
| 28 | A typical approach is to assume a ratio of hydrogen to helium which is the same or fairly similar to that measured in the atmosphere , and to assume that there is a small fraction of heavier elements and their compounds which may be concentrated in a core or dispersed to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 29 | Sugar beet might be given the capacity to produce new amino-acids of value to man which could be extracted at the same time as the sugar . |
| 30 | and this would , you would think , because there 's a shift back of capital to agriculture you 'd get a rise in agricultural wage rates because that changes the capital to labour ratio again and so this would counteract the movement . |