Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reaction of some scholars to the question of ‘ coherence ’ is to search for cues to coherence within the text and this may indeed yield a descriptive account of the characteristics of some types of text . |
| 2 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |
| 3 | The White Paper ( see p2 for detailed news coverage ) addresses a number of the structural issues which AEA has identified as barriers to innovation in the UK . |
| 4 | It also included the lowering of barriers to entry into the Stock Exchange by British and overseas banks and other international dealers in securities . |
| 5 | The environmental crisis will , he says , require an increase in the flow of resources to the Third World , debt relief , fair pricing of commodities , land reform and help for Third World food producers in the form of a phasing-out of subsidies to agriculture in the developed nations . |
| 6 | Seed offers a simple means of raising a healthy stock of plants to dot about the garden , or plug-plant into the mini-meadow . |
| 7 | There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s . |
| 8 | Over 2,000 programmes were referred to by our sample , ranging from specific short courses to six or twelve month programmes , which altogether represents a quite considerable commitment of resources to training on the part of public librarianship as a whole . |
| 9 | This molecule is also involved in the adhesion of neutrophils to endothelium during the inflammatory response . |
| 10 | profits have continued to represent about one-third of the turnover ; this is seen as not necessarily the highest proportion of profits to income in the headhunting business as a whole , where estimates of 60% have been made in some cases . |
| 11 | It has long been recognised that the ratio of doctors to population in the United Kingdom , at 1 to 562 , is the second lowest in western Europe , where the average is 1 to 338 . |
| 12 | Lawani 1977 has drawn attention to the significance of citations to science in the following terms : |
| 13 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 14 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 15 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 16 | A roundtable discussion on the question ‘ What type of information do we need in the Middle East ? ’ dealt , among other things , with attitudes to information in the region , in view of the perception that information means power , and that access to it should therefore be restricted . |
| 17 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 18 | The Americans have demanded a reduction of 75% in subsidies to agriculture across the board . |
| 19 | With the help of Japanese partners , the group competes successfully in everything from detergents to lingerie against the likes of Unilever , Procter & Gamble and Colgate . |
| 20 | The general thrust can be seen intuitively by supposing that inference is basically a matter of moving from premises to conclusion along an acceptable path . |
| 21 | Those proposals have generally been well received but councillors are concerned over plans to part of the grounds for housing . |
| 22 | Leibniz took a different route and looked for clues to particularity within the monads themselves , but the only " criterion " he was able to produce was his " principle of indiscernibles " , and eventually he was forced to introduce the additional metaphysical postulate of " sufficient reason " in order to safeguard the existential uniqueness of his monads . |
| 23 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 24 | The moves were linked by observers to sensitivity on the part of the authorities at the approach of the anniversary of the anti-government riots of July 1990 [ see p. 37603 ] . |