Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 3 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 4 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 5 | Fun-filled Faliraki is only a 20–25 minute walk away but there is a public bus service which departs from outside the hotel , and lots of taxis to whisk you to the beach and Faliraki centre . |
| 6 | ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Her move , she said , was in no way caused by the spate of allegations linking her to the murders of the township activist Stompie Moeketsi and the Soweto physician Dr Abu-Baker Asvat and to other possible charges of kidnap , assault and theft . |
| 8 | In 1.1 , for example , we showed a sequence of instructions to add one to the operand field of an " add " instruction , so that when executed it referred to successive locations in store . |
| 9 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 10 | But , although they defended free trade against Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reformers , most of the leading Liberal politicians and an influential minority of socialists accommodated themselves to the underlying assumptions of the new imperialism . |
| 11 | Despite this , it is worth noting that in Townsend 's sample 31 per cent of men assigning themselves to the middle class had ‘ manual ’ occupations , and 25 per cent of men assigning themselves to the working class had ‘ non-manual ’ occupations . |
| 12 | Despite this , it is worth noting that in Townsend 's sample 31 per cent of men assigning themselves to the middle class had ‘ manual ’ occupations , and 25 per cent of men assigning themselves to the working class had ‘ non-manual ’ occupations . |
| 13 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 14 | It was certainly true that now , when at last it looked as if we might have our prahu , an increasing number of extremely sinister nakodas were approaching us with offers to take us to the Aru Islands . |
| 15 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 16 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |