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

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1 There is now much more public demand for support to the victims of violent crime .
2 There was a printed form of recommendation of patients for admission to the benefits of the infirmary , and it was emphasised that no child under seven years of age , except in case of an operation , and no person without decent apparel and a proper change of linen , or labouring under any infectious disorder whatever could be admitted as an in-patient .
3 The World Bank granted Algeria a total of dollars 341,000,000 in loans during its fiscal year ending June 30 , 1989 , including a dollars 63,000,000 loan for improvements to the ports of Algiers , Oran and Annaba was approved on June 29 ( see also pp. 36749 ; 36905 ) .
4 The filter will usually come with the suckers for attachment to the sides of the tank .
5 The second group are the likely end-users of the AI ; they range from officers in middle management through SNCOs to the Airmen on the line .
6 I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it .
7 This level increases depending on our activity and the demand for a surge of blood to be sent where it is needed , for instance to the muscles during exercise or to our brain when under pressure mentally .
8 Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention .
9 I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’
10 More recently I have been on the phone to Minsk , Nottingham 's twin town , in connection with the Lord Mayor 's appeal for aid to the victims of Chernobyl .
11 1803 " From a statement to this Meeting of the Desertion of the Militia men or non appearance ; which they consider as Disgracefull to the Inhabitants of Islay .
12 The agreement involved a delicate balance between concessions to the demands for greater autonomy by much of the French-speaking majority of Quebec and by representatives of the native Indian and Inuit population , and wider constitutional reforms designed to appeal to the western provinces , particularly the creation of an elected Senate where all 10 of the country 's provinces would be equally represented [ see p. 39000 ] .
13 And he sent er memo after memo to the commanders in Korea advising them of what the guidelines were , what they were allowed to say , what they were n't allowed to say and so on .
14 Meanwhile , a general strike scheduled to begin on Dec. 16 was called off after assurances to the unions by Koffigoh that the decisions of the national conference would be respected .
15 We attribute the steady increase in nitric acid during autumn and the reduction during winter to the effects of heterogeneous chemistry .
16 It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ?
17 Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace .
18 Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior .
19 The day of the opening of Danu to the emissions of the outside world , a couple of ancient boats gurgled alongside the wharf , bearing a crowd of stage extras from the outlying , historically malai islands .
20 The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association .
21 In the past , rationing took the form of requests to the banks by the Bank of England , and hire-purchase controls .
22 Disclosure of damage to the nests of a colony of little terns came yesterday during a VIP visit to the former defence research site led by Minister for the Environment , David Maclean .
23 The problems that have arisen in applying the principles of the law of negligence to the facts of a case such as the present result from the following matters .
24 He 's continually er , persecuting them , and there 's many , many indications that he uses er , poisoned gas , or chemical weapons , and er lays waste their whole villages , and he 's seeking to do this because he wants to dominate his own country , and not allow any minorities a chance to look after themselves , and the same applies of course to the Kurds in the north , whom we have a direct responsibility , the international community , to protect .
25 It appears that under the Act of 1980 the content of that policy was entirely a matter for the governors , subject of course to the requirements of section 6 of the Act of 1980 .
26 I began as the kind of feminist who said , " It 's not men , it 's the system , " but this journey convinced me that men and masculinity , in their everyday , individual manifestations , constitute a systematic bloc of resistance to the women of their own community and class .
27 One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue !
28 In the earliest stages , bilingual children typically produce only one label for a category , despite exposure to the labels from both languages .
29 The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities .
30 Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land .
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