Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 2 | For reasons best known to the RAAF at the time , they started cutting back on pilots and offered his course a transfer to the RAF . |
| 3 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 4 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 5 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 6 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 7 | Similarly , studies of the international transfer of technology by multinational firms find that transfer costs ( and times ) vary inversely with the amount of host country R&D , its manufacturing experience , and with the number of projects already transferred to the host country ( see Mansfield et al. , 1982 , and Teece , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the modern law of contracts tenaciously clings to the liberal ideal of individual autonomy . |
| 9 | Bernal was of course deeply committed to the Communist ideal and was never , so far as I know , privy to any of the atomic bomb developments during or after the war . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 11 | Charles had already left , a couple of hours ago according to the secretary on the other end of the line . |
| 12 | Truman 's work focused more explicitly upon organised groups , the increasing number and importance of which he regarded as a result of governmental growth : the ‘ trend towards all increasing diversity of groups functionally attached to the institutions of government is a reflection of the characteristics and needs , to use a somewhat ambiguous term , of a complex society ’ . |
| 13 | , Swedish scientists have called attention to the large amount of halon gas , hundreds of times more damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs , which was used in the gulf war . |
| 14 | It becomes oddly insulting , not only because it rules out appreciation of beautiful souls lurking behind plain faces , but also because the kind of admiration then given to the beautiful woman begins to assume that her equally lovely nature is sweet , kind , gentle and unselfish — an image of passive , yielding femininity . |
| 15 | Phillips also queries the amount of money newly allocated to the research councils to cover overheads of some projects previously paid for by the universities . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend may know that I have made the views of the Government and of Members of Parliament well known to the Kenyan Government for a long time . |
| 17 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 18 | This difference can not be attributed to more enlightened guessing when subjects knew the title because recall of words closely related to the title and of words not closely related to the title was equally improved . |
| 19 | The Hoskyns Group have developed a range of computers specially tailored to the hotel industry . |
| 20 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Suspected drug traffickers set off 12 bombs , injuring 35 people , in the latest round of violence here linked to the country 's cocaine war , authorities said . |
| 21 | Conversations between agricultural workers on the edge of subsistence constantly refer to the city : a city that exists nowhere but which continually transmits promises ' . |
| 22 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 23 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 24 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
| 25 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 26 | A decorative horizontal panel of fabric usually attached to the top of the window frame , or just above , to hide rods and provide added interest . |
| 27 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 28 | The requirements of the crusade and the tensions of being brought to the brink of battle both pointed to the need for a long , rather than a short truce . |
| 29 | German bonds and those of countries closely allied to the Deutschmark , such as the Netherlands and Belgium , have strengthened . |
| 30 | Sport , as John Gillis put it , in Youth and History , took on many of the functions of the rites of passage once reserved to the Latin language , and enshrined the separation of boys from the world of women . |