Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to the [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrator , Richard Papen , longs for entry to the college 's charmed but destructive inner circle — a clique of privileged students fired by their classics professor 's admiration for the ancient Greek mysteries of bucolic visions and violence . |
| 2 | The closing date for responses to the consultation is March 26th 1993 . |
| 3 | In the absence of P , it has a shape which enables it to bind to S and convert it into A. However , a P molecule can also bind to the enzyme , typically at a site different from S. When it does so , it alters the shape of the enzyme so that it no longer binds to S. The binding of P to the enzyme is non-covalent , and hence readily reversible . |
| 4 | Often , the only cause of damage to the glider is if the wings or fuselage break loose . |
| 5 | Curiously , the addition of fungicides to the glue is not very effective . |
| 6 | THE daily delivery of milk to the doorstep is under threat . |
| 7 | With so much data being reported for so many pollutants and with the news media and control agencies employing diverse terms to describe air quality , some degree of confusion to the public is inevitable . |
| 8 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |
| 9 | A good flow of blood to the head is vital for optimum brain function . |
| 10 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 11 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 12 | Another characteristic of importance to the choreographer is the nature of a dancer 's response to music . |
| 13 | The device which controls the supply of water to the sprinkler is a 12V d.c. solenoid valve . |
| 14 | To achieve this he creates a sense of the gap between the speaker and God by contrasting verbs of action which embody a sense of the dynamic power of the love of God to the speaker 's trapped stillness , and then resolves these apparent opposites as he perceives his stillness to be the very condition of the inner movement he desires . |
| 15 | As one is not supposed to leave a family no matter what the dispute or argument , so a lifetime of commitment to the firm is expected from workers . |
| 16 | ‘ Look under the trail of smoke to the plane 's left . ’ |
| 17 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 18 | The Forest of Shadows to the north is dense and dark , and inhabited by Forest Goblins and ferocious wolf packs . |
| 19 | There was a claim for forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and eighty six pence for the cost of alterations to the plaintiff 's home already carried out as I have indicated already , that was discharged by payment and by local authority grant of nine thousand eight hundred and forty seven pounds and an interim payment of thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine pounds eighty six pence . |
| 20 | The maritime antarctic as a whole has 20% more lichens than the continent and 150% more mosses ; in addition it has 25 taxa of hepatics to the continent 's one , and two species of angiosperms that have not yet been found on the continent . |
| 21 | The usual means of approach to the crag is from the layby at its north-east end . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there are those who turn this prophecy into a programme for political and economic emancipation : the poor are the exploited proletariat , the captives are the prisoners of conscience and the recovery of sight to the blind is achieved through ‘ awareness building ’ so that the exploited recognise the factors which have contributed to their plight and come to realise that their situation is not inevitable . |
| 23 | Of concern to the association is the growing proportion of foreign-made robots in Britain 's factories . |
| 24 | It is that in a conditional sale agreement the passing of property to the buyer is expressly postponed until some condition ( usually all the instalments being paid ) is fulfilled . |
| 25 | The major source of information to the prospector is British Geological Survey ( BGS ) . |
| 26 | A subtle war of approaches to the sculptor is being fought by his daughter in the French capital |
| 27 | Second , addition of records to the file is no longer a matter of adding to the end of the file . |
| 28 | If so , we hope this booklet will explain why the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood is both important and urgent . |
| 29 | Men as well as women are now realizing that the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood is a gospel issue . |
| 30 | imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal . |