Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 2 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nearly time for the children to go to bed . ’ |
| 4 | Her mother could look after the chickens , and he would pay for the children to go to school . |
| 5 | But the game , referred with a scrupulous lack of bias by ladies ' chairman Sue Hinkin , swung back in their favour and pride was restored as the men scraped to victory . |
| 6 | The path through the exhibits led to World War I , a display featuring a talking dummy who reduced that gigantic disaster to an argument over submarines . |
| 7 | The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services . |
| 8 | This will be achieved by developing abilities to analyse critically the work of the professions allied to medicine by being able to understand the way in which the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions , as well as those designed to prevent disease and promote health , are evaluated . |
| 9 | Candidates will normally be expected to be members of the professions allied to medicine . |
| 10 | I glimpsed white teeth and a gaping jaw but the sight of the eyeballs turning to water and the blackened flesh of the man 's hands proved too much . |
| 11 | As I have said , the abolition of the poll tax is to be welcomed , but even more welcome would be the abolition of the system of grants — the standard spending assessment which is responsible for most of the problems relating to capping and high poll tax bills . |
| 12 | WHAT THE RULES SAY NOW Controlled trust accounts are now within the reporting accountant 's scope , and one of the rules relating to interest on clients ' money has changed too |
| 13 | Many of the males went to work in town and sent back a little money occasionally . |
| 14 | This will happen regardless of the efforts made to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which are responsible for depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 15 | The specificity of the assays applied to perfusion fluid was assured by dilution and by recovery experiments showing correlation to the standard curves . |
| 16 | We suggest that since 94% of the asthmatics consented to endoscopy , selection bias was unlikely to be a major factor in biasing our results . |
| 17 | As a leading article in The Times put it : ‘ Undaunted by the superior timidity of the House of Lords the Court of Appeal persevered in its determination to set limits to the scope of the immunities granted to trade unions by statute . ’ |
| 18 | Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines . |
| 19 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 20 | Table I shows the distribution of the women according to waist-hip ratio , body mass index , and age , and the percentage that became pregnant in each category . |
| 21 | One of the matters brought to light by the plans to operate trolleybuses , was the need to rationalize electric current supply and with that in mind a new agreement was drawn up with Croydon Corporation . |
| 22 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 23 | This results in excessive contraction of the muscles leading to death . |
| 24 | Since publication is one such measure , and one which is relatively easy to determine , a study of the factors leading to non-publication is of potential value to funding bodies . |
| 25 | Since publication is one such measure , and one which is relatively easy to determine , a study of the factors leading to non-publication is of potential value to funding bodies . |
| 26 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 27 | Many of the criminal laws which affect the media — official secrets and prevention of terrorism , and most of the laws relating to contempt , reporting restrictions and obscenity — can not be invoked in the criminal courts by anyone except the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions ( who works under the Attorney 's superintendence ) . |
| 28 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 29 | In the 1960s the import of the systems approach to geomorphology was probably reflected most significantly in the emphasis which developed in research investigations as many more dynamic investigations appeared . |
| 30 | Most of the panels devoted to money were on the order of how-to sessions . |