Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TOWN 'S newest soccer league for youngsters is set to kick-off with a little help from the local beat bobby . |
| 2 | Another stated objective of many case management services is the improvement of the client 's quality of life , and there are a great number of attempts being made to measure quality of life ( QOL ) ( Lehman et al. , 1986 ; Oliver , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | Another group of subjects were subjected to REM or Stage 4 sleep deprivation for three nights , and then deprived of sleep altogether for one night , again allowing a comparison of the effects of a four-day cumulation of loss of Stage 4 sleep with REM sleep . |
| 4 | This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party , whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament . |
| 5 | The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year . |
| 6 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 7 | Results of examinations are sent to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 8 | A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent . |
| 9 | Access to tribunals for unfair dismissal of strikers is narrowed to victimization in the complainant 's own ‘ establishment ’ ; workers taking part in it elsewhere no longer count as his fellows . |
| 10 | It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire . |
| 11 | However grand the latter might be , those who bought the lower order of tickets were condemned to tin huts at the end of the platforms where the sole facility might be a single stand-pipe tap . |
| 12 | A group of travellers are going to court to challenge a council 's right to move them on . |
| 13 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |
| 14 | All organisations working for the welfare of children were invited to affiliate . |
| 15 | We also know that at about the age of 13 a very high proportion of boys are attracted to science and scientific careers . |
| 16 | In the early 1890s a growing proportion of revolutionaries were converted to Marxism . |
| 17 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |
| 18 | ALMOST exactly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canaries and St Lucia , the radio net for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers was brought to life on 10 December with a dramatic mayday from the one-off Chaot owned by Manfred Boschmann . |
| 19 | Good and evil are understood , just as with Moore , as non-natural characteristics whose presence in things is revealed to intuition . |
| 20 | Erm volumes are about level with last year and the improvement in profits is related to currency changes . |
| 21 | The schemes that do exist in the private market for pensions are related to purchasing power — so inequalities in earnings will be reflected in life after retirement , whilst those without the power to buy a pension will become increasingly dependent on the low rates obtainable from state pensions and means tested benefits . |
| 22 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |
| 23 | The School for Nightingales was danced to music by Couperin and set ( in the period when he lived ) in a singing academy where ‘ the arrival of a visitor suggests that singing is not the only lesson to be learned ’ . |