Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination .
2 This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy .
3 With dye terminators , 96 templates can be sequenced in a single microtitre dish and excess dye terminators are removed 24 samples at a time by gravity chromatography using a perspex block of microcolumns scaled down to microtitre format ( 12 ) .
4 Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England .
5 Consumers pay either through insurance or income tax for health services , hence there is no true test of the New Right model of suppliers reacting directly to consumer preferences in the market place .
6 Simultaneously , they propose the general liberalisation of prices applying both to enterprise and the public .
7 The development of relevant critical factors needs to be based on a properly sequenced series of requirements leading logically to success in the market place and hence NPV .
8 A further set of issues contributing significantly to globalization concerns the environment .
9 In the pre-war years , his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment .
10 In Nelson , three miles away , an equal number of women went out to work , yet the infant mortality rate was lower than in John Burns ' own constituency of Battersea .
11 And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work .
12 But , like turkeys looking forward to Christmas , industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action .
13 A special Home Office committee is already looking at the problem with orders to report back to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke within the next few months .
14 The division had a good year in 1992 , with results coming close to budget .
15 But König 's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age .
16 The scheme has the defect , however , that the name-space and the properties specified in context-tables relate only to Guide .
17 As we will see in Chapter 3 , the gap in wages runs parallel to productivity to give the two quite distinct units of production and employment that characterize the Japanese economy .
18 ( The great increase in mail order use has coincided with the increase in women going out to work .
19 Josie was a solidly-built woman , hefty but fit-looking , whose taste in clothes ran mostly to knitwear and slacks .
20 Although total revenue was steady at £6.4m , interest on borrowings taken on to switch into American , Japanese and Australian bonds cut pre-tax earnings from £4.23m to £3.2m and earnings per share from 2.57p to 1.95p .
21 Care should be taken for claims relating solely to loss of cash .
22 Hope , however , was provided by the offer of a gift of £1,000 from Alderman Ephraim Hallam , to provide leaving scholarships for boys to go on to University .
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