Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The " Out " tray held two manila files , the top labelled " Chapel — Proposals for transfer to Department of the Environment , and the second , a large , old and unwieldy file which had been much mended , was marked " New Laboratory — Commissioning " .
2 2 further patients ( 1 man aged 60 and 1 woman of 61 ) were brought to our institution after exposure to CO at the home of an older relative who had died .
3 In total , in the ‘ no training officer ’ group there was less evidence of team decisions , less evidence of decision-making in the frame-work of existing plans/priorities , more mention of need to have local authority approval , and more mention of relevancy to post as a criterion .
4 Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body .
5 Only the west Siberian Tatars , as Muslims in touch with Bukhara and other Islamic centres of Central Asia , were familiar with Koranic Arabic , while the Buryat Mongols east of Lake Baikal used classical Mongolian , written since the thirteenth century in a vertical script , and later , as a result of conversion to Buddhism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , received its scriptures in Tibetan .
6 In a wide-ranging challenge to the opposition of multiculturalism to antiracism as an adequate framework for educational debate , Ali Rattansi argues that , in the wake of the Burnage Report , it is necessary to identify new priorities that undermine old certainties .
7 These developments and the support provided for them were constantly underpinned by the continued demonstration of commitment to partnership by the school 's Governors and senior management team .
8 Try the early summer flowering B. alternifolia , its shoots wreathed with clusters of pale purple flowers , and August flowering B. davidii , with tapering heads of white to purple at its stem tips .
9 There are , however , a number of formal and , more importantly , informal channels of communication to government about the mood of the House .
10 The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person .
11 The usual order is judgment for arrears of rent to date of termination of the tenancy , and for mesne profits to date of hearing and thereafter mesne profits at a daily rate and ( almost invariably calculated by reference to the rent ) from the date of hearing until actual possession is given up .
12 Braud gives the example of Egypt 's 1957 unilateral declaration in favour of third States with respect to transit through the Suez Canal .
13 The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability .
14 Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years .
15 Mathisen ( 1984 ) documented secondary porosity enhancement of 40% in Plio-Pleistocene volcaniclastic sandstones from Indonesia in addition to alteration of many of the original grains and cements ( e.g. feldspars , volcanic fragments , zeolites ) ; this has occurred in burial depths of only 400–900 m .
16 Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes .
17 However , it makes sense to keep the variations of lighting within reasonable bounds from shot to shot by shooting your scenes in groups which are consistently lit .
18 It is not a command from God to advance on all fronts , but is a strategic word identifying and emphasising his order of priorities .
19 A rateable value is intended to represent a rent from year to year at a specific date on terms laid down by regulations .
20 Editor , — John Spooner , of the Paracetamol Information Centre , accuses Gary P Bray of causing confusion in relation to suicide by ingestion of paracetamol .
21 The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together .
22 Lastly , they would remove what is undoubtedly , in the case above , the single most important feature needed to understand what is being said : the fact that these two people are involved in moving a piano and A ( a middle-aged man trying to assert his authority ) is already supporting its weight : hence , perhaps , his impatience , breathlessness , and desperate switch from ordering to pleading with B , a youth who has only reluctantly agreed to come along and help .
23 The final section of the book , " Form and function " , contains a variety of approaches to the problem of the switch from description to interpretation in the analysis of texts .
24 But the German manager has been lifted by the recent club form of 31-year-old captain , Lothar Matthaeus — absent in Sweden due to a serious knee operation — as well as his clubmate Olaf Thon 's successful switch from midfielder to libero at Bayern Munich .
25 The switch from camaraderie to aggression in her working relationships subtly mirrors what we see happen in the rape .
26 Necessity was the mother of invention for Dixon when refereeing interpretation compelled a switch from ruck to maul during Scotland 's 1988 tour to Zimbabwe — of which three survivors played on Saturday : Paul Burnell , Cronin and Derek Turnbull .
27 The studies in Preston have shown that babies who have low birth weight in relation to duration of gestation , who have small head circumference , and are thin at birth tend as adults to develop high blood pressure , impaired glucose tolerance , and syndrome X — a combination of hypertension , non-insulin dependent diabetes , disordered lipids , hyperinsulinaemia , obesity , and abdominal fatness .
28 She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking .
29 Crewmen McMullen and Creelman manoeuvred the boat from house to house in varying depths of water , up to 8ft in places , with underwater obstructions making the going difficult .
30 ‘ We will also develop conversion methods for our clients , and the Pick and Pick look-alike market , providing them with an open alternative , ’ Salmon said , believing that with Apscore 's help , customers will be able to port code and data from Pick to Unix in a matter of days .
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