Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun] " 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 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Two crowns of laurels were offered to Braque and his wife . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party , whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament . |
| 7 | A petition signed by the thousands of supporters was handed to Chelmsford Borough Council leader Tony Sadler . |
| 8 | Like Nos. 17–26 , this batch of cars was transferred to South Metropolitan tracks in 1906 , having been built for ‘ Croydon District Tramways ’ in 1902 , and run as Croydon Corporation Nos. 56–60 . |
| 9 | Two small groups of captives were shown to reporters in Zakho and Dahuk . |
| 10 | Poor Martha 's experience of suitors was limited to Sam Baldwin who , although hardworking and dependable , was not the type to turn a girl 's head . |
| 11 | The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THE recession has caused a large rise in the number of dogs being given to kennels by owners unable to afford the animals ' upkeep . |
| 14 | Results of examinations are sent to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 15 | The picture painted by the Survey is one of a book provision system which is capable of coping remarkably well with the complexities of a Library whose collections have been built up over three centuries : a high proportion of requests are satisfied ; the great majority of items are delivered to readers without difficulty ; and the time taken for most items to be delivered is not only comparatively short , but , despite the fluctuating level of demand for printed books , shows little variation . |
| 16 | In all cases , a small number of items were supplied to readers after having been removed from another reader 's reserve shelf . |
| 17 | Bob Dockray , chairman of South West Durham Community Health Council , said the incident was rare and the system was working if 97pc of ambulances were getting to destinations within 19 minutes . |
| 18 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 20.4% of the grants made and 3.6% of loans were awarded to pensioners . |
| 21 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 22 | Rape counsellors believe only ten per cent of rapes are reported to Police … |
| 23 | This became a forward base for the NPFL , and reports told of ships being diverted to Buchanan and their cargoes used to replenish the rebel supplies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire . |
| 26 | The liability of members is limited to £1 each . |
| 27 | That 's why the vast majority of users are attracted to Microsoft Windows by its very simplicity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A group of travellers are going to court to challenge a council 's right to move them on . |
| 30 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |