Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Text books often include reference to explanations of legislation given by a minister in Parliament , as a result of which lawyers advise their clients taking account of such statements and judges when construing the legislation come to know of them . |
| 2 | The tree-lined city embankments , riverside walkways and yuppiefied warehouse flats soon gave way to deserted shipyards . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , specialist officers invariably have loyalties to their profession as well as to their employing authority and this further weakens the concept of a unified service . |
| 4 | Wine merchants often lend glasses to customers for a small charge or even for free — assuming that you buy a few bottles from them . |
| 5 | With the fees for shooting hill stags currently averaging £200 to £250 , the total income from commercial lets is £1.5–£2 million . |
| 6 | The service managers also offered support to the family carers . |
| 7 | Some slimming magazines also publish guides to the fat and fibre content of food . |
| 8 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 9 | Besides those of proven wealth , the immigration laws only allow entry to specific categories of employees who are required to fill jobs which can not be filled by the existing labour force . |
| 10 | Management consulting assignments generally require solutions to perceived problems and experience at implementing solutions . |
| 11 | Sometimes the rug is simply washed in water and then left out in the sun to dry , but many weaving groups now add chemicals to the water in order both to alter the tonal intensity of the colours and to give the pile a gloss or matt sheen . |
| 12 | Few library authorities now give allocations to individual service points , since the benefits of gearing stock provision to a larger geographical area are widely recognized . |
| 13 | The operations of insider traders effectively cause losses to market-makers with whom they deal . |
| 14 | This is worth emphasising since monetary control regulations often include references to ratios of various sorts . |
| 15 | We can hardly resist the conclusion that the parish officers only had recourse to the policy of subsidizing wages wherever the attraction of urban industry made itself felt too weakly , leaving a pool of surplus manpower and substandard wages . |
| 16 | The thermal paper materials alone cost £2.75 to the trade . |
| 17 | Coconut and banana trees quickly give way to a dim still forest . |
| 18 | Government forces then laid seige to the building and , after a standoff of several hours , there was a four-hour gun-battle which culminated in the storming of the hotel . |
| 19 | Star Micronics now exports printers to Russia . |
| 20 | Such provisions are common in contracts of carriage or bailment which normally impose a financial limit of £n per item or per unit of weight ; sale contracts generally restrict liability to the amount of the price of the goods , or ( possibly ) a multiple of it , for instance " our liability to pay damages for any breach of contract shall not exceed the amount of the contract price " . |
| 21 | Restaurant chefs always have access to marvellous trimmings for their soups . |
| 22 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 23 | Gentle , rolling countryside of wooded glens and tumbledown cottages gradually gives way to a dramatic landscape of magnificent mountains towering above luminous lochs . |
| 24 | A two-way system of regulation began to be established , whereby purity groups either presented information to the police or the police referred cases to purists themselves . |
| 25 | Older associationist models gradually gave way to interpretations based on concepts of language learning . |
| 26 | Narcotics are widely available in prison , with prison officials illegally selling heroin to inmates , sources say . |
| 27 | Airtours rose 5p to 302p and its bid victim Owners Abroad advanced 13p to 129p , after the DTI nodded through the bid and revived hopes of an increased offer or a counter-bid . |