Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems these humans are often — unwell — a kind of failure even to non-scuttle . |
| 2 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 3 | To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque . |
| 4 | This organisation is an industry lead and awarding body that has developed national standards and assessment material to support vocational qualifications and SCOTVEC awards in engineering at a variety of levels up to technician . |
| 5 | Evangelical opponents of cruelty to animals campaigned against the trade in feathers , along with other forms of cruelty closer to home including cock-fighting and scientific vivisection experiments . |
| 6 | In the last five partial responders prolongation of therapy up to week 38 led to a definite response and HBsAg seroconversion in three of the five patients . |
| 7 | Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea . |
| 8 | One chapter brings the complex biology of ferns vividly to life . |
| 9 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 10 | All versions of Okapi up to Okapi '87 were written in Z80 assembly language and operated on a network of Apple IIe microcomputers connected to a Nestar PLAN/4000 file server . |
| 11 | It is well established that tension and stress can cause a variety of physical problems , ranging from attacks of influenza through to heart attacks , strokes and even cancer . |
| 12 | The most obvious test of television 's ability to set the public agenda was provided by its massive shift of emphasis on to defence in the third week of the campaign . |
| 13 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 14 | The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel . |
| 15 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 16 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 17 | She declared herself to be " conscious of the differences in national parliamentary traditions across the Community " but said that " differences of style and opinion are insignificant against the background of the proven commitment of Europeans today to reconciliation and democracy " . |
| 18 | More importantly John Sadler is credited with inventing a method of transfer-printing on to earthenware tiles . |
| 19 | I wonder how many millions of logos are black and white and how many thousands of artists limit their use of colour purely to black and white , which is not in fact true of Joseph Kosuth . |
| 20 | The exhibition , imaginatively divided into six ‘ worlds ’ , brings the famous Guinness Book of Records vividly to life . |
| 21 | Having been satisfied with the tool 's performance on the rafters , we used it to tack down sheets of fibreboard on to chipboard . |
| 22 | An alternative to post-production commentary addition is to record explanatory comments in the form of speeches straight to camera as you go along . |
| 23 | The sun was shining but there was a bank of cloud out to sea ; no discernible movement anywhere . |
| 24 | Without doing so , we could miss vital factors of detriment both to water voles and other wetland wildlife . |
| 25 | Were the records of work up to date ? |
| 26 | Yes , yes , I 've been to se I 've a couple of people up to sort of promise a hand |
| 27 | The garden , which had provided not only subsistence but a little cash crop , was overgrown with brambles and cow-parsley and other vegetation of interest only to wildlife . |
| 28 | It is important , however , to have a source of money close to home . |