Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men — 30 was not uncommon . |
| 2 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 3 | The organisers of a Dusseldorf trade show for manufacturers withdrew permission to film there after reading a scene in which German businessmen try to trick Wilcox . |
| 4 | As stated earlier , whereas creative artists such as authors commit words to paper , artists paint or carve and composers write scores away from the performers , choreographers create movements directly on the dancers in front of them . |
| 5 | IBM and Object Design plan to develop a series of products linking ObjectStore to IBM 's range of databases . |
| 6 | IBM and ODI plan to develop a series of products linking ObjectStore to IBM 's range of databases . |
| 7 | In the course of the ninth century , the minting of coins to pay tributes to Vikings exhausted supplies of bullion that were already meagre . |
| 8 | The process is in general ( but not in detail ) analogous to the Brownian motion of molecules giving rise to fluid viscosity . |
| 9 | Josiah Wedgwood was a major backer of projects forming links to Staffordshire , not only to cheapen the costs of his intake of clay and flints but also because steadier transit on canals reduced the breakage losses in carrying pottery . |
| 10 | While there is some research activity in linking statistical models to GIS there would seem to be scope for further applications of operations research techniques to GIS problems . |
| 11 | Trevor Nicholas , head of Barclay 's computer operations , says that the bank has been the victim of attempts to move funds to accounts in other parts of the world , but that as far as it knows , they have been thwarted . |
| 12 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 13 | Figure 4.3 includes the test results for a pair of groups given pre-exposure to saccharin before being conditioned and tested with milk . |
| 14 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 15 | From my audience ( a solid queue of cars waiting bumper to bumper at a side road ) there came a sort of gasp or groan . |
| 16 | The Faculty of Arts offers instruction to honours level in Arabic , Chinese , Japanese , Persian and Sanskrit . |
| 17 | Suppose also that the seller despatches a lorry carrying 100 cwt. of potatoes to make delivery to A , B and C in that order . |
| 18 | The promoters are also marketing imaginative packages which sometimes include books of vouchers giving entrance to places of historical or geographical interest , discounted theatre tickets , unlimited travel on the bus or underground , tee shirts and other promotional give-aways as well as hotel accommodation and meals . |
| 19 | By the eighteenth century the position in Rome had become so impossible ( since not merely considerable areas around foreign embassies but also churches and the houses of cardinals offered refuge to criminals ) that the papal police had to be equipped with special maps to show them which streets they were permitted to pass through . |
| 20 | It is morally certain that a number of persons signed confessions to crimes of which they were innocent . |
| 21 | The most common kinds of situations giving rise to interaction amongst Network members are summarised below , together with a checklist which sets out the obligations of the initiating member and the participating member in each set of circumstances . |
| 22 | In addition the public reacts strongly to media " scandals " of patients denied access to treatments like renal dialysis . |
| 23 | But on Saturday afternoon peals rang out as the York Minster Society of Change-Ringers called Christians to Evensong . |
| 24 | The most important of these constitutional factors , but not the only one , was the difference between the genitals of boys and girls , and the capacity , only visible later in adult life , of females to give birth to children . |
| 25 | What is equally disturbing is the number of tobacconists selling cigarettes to children under 16 . |
| 26 | A more publicised arrangement is when a wholesaler or group of wholesalers invite retailers to affiliate to them and agree to take the bulk of their purchases from them . |
| 27 | Chief Superintendent Jeff Meadows , head of Lancashire Constabulary 's Traffic and Uniform Operations Department , said : ‘ Tests in April showed that police cars parked at the side of motorways reduce speeds to 70-71mph , while the decoy reduces speeds to around 71-72mph . |
| 28 | It is the function of elections to identify claimants to seats in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | For example , there have already been reports of hospitals giving preference to patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 30 | As they flew over the capital , returning the Archon to the Imperial Palace , the sight below was of units of soldiers fighting hand to hand battles with other military units . |