Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting question is whether the reform to regulations regarding fee structures in 1982 and , to a lesser extent , the greater freedom architects enjoyed from about this time to practice in a less restrictive manner have influenced the pattern of events . |
| 2 | Fletchers are famous for their forward planning , and so it was off to another aquatic centre , this time for some mortar to bed down the perimeter slabs . |
| 3 | ‘ She was proud of that piece to camera at the end , ’ murmured Terry , in his flat London accent . |
| 4 | It is therefore important to have all of this information to hand before beginning the installation procedure . |
| 5 | When trying to relate the global structure of this solution to part of the Schwarzschild space-time , it should be emphasised that for this class of colliding plane waves the coordinate is not periodic but covers the full range . |
| 6 | His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week . |
| 7 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 8 | For in their case an initial violation of the presumption of innocence is further compounded by a complete absence in Britain ( almost uniquely — see Shelbourn , 1979 ) of any entitlement to compensation for wrongful detention before conviction . |
| 9 | They are the inclusion of the Asylum Bill and the absence of any commitment to action against what we still — inappropriately — refer to , as the Home Secretary did today , as joyriding . |
| 10 | Mannheim 's reflexivity , his willingness to tolerate the limits of any claim to truth in his own work was unrecognizable to the epistemological scientism of American sociology . |
| 11 | Peter Reid , the factor on Kildalton Estate ( 36 ) , in part of his statement said " I do n't suppose it is of any consequence to advert to the question of how people were removed , but I do n't think we can admit that there were any evictions , and I think there is no need , unless it is wished , to call forward witnesses to show that there were no evictions , at least in the ordinary sense of the word . " |
| 12 | Associated with this rise to prominence of the social survey method were new modes of theorising about social action and social organisation . |
| 13 | With this rise to power of a single male deity and the concomitant lessening in status of the other members of the Israelite pantheon ( especially its female members ) , the role played by women in public religion began to diminish . |
| 14 | Some Christian women are dissatisfied with this route to equality through male generic neutrality . |
| 15 | The British Union of Fascists represented the mature form of the fascist phenomenon in British society , being the only organization with any pretension to significance in inter-war Britain . |
| 16 | Yet there was nothing in this relationship to gate against the susceptibilities of the reformers , for it implied no set position in the ecclesiastical hierarchy . |
| 17 | And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 19 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 20 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 21 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |