Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility . |
| 2 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 3 | Today Strathclyde 's chairman of roads and transport , Malcolm Waugh , will tell the Transport Secretary , John MacGregor , in Glasgow that the Government should not use EC aid as a substitute for its own cash to councils . |
| 4 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk . |
| 6 | Like children , they require a sense of security , of belonging , and of their own importance to others , yet as young people they need also a sense of growing independence , of self-assertion , of occupational skill and of responsibility . |
| 7 | Later , Anthony Eden , by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs , went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy . |
| 8 | The SEC has given evidence of its own inability to police its anti-insider dealing regulations , especially where foreign funding of such trading is involved . |
| 9 | Drexel , which used to commit $3 billion-5 billion of its own funds to market-making , has stopped even quoting prices on 3,000–4,000 junk bonds . |
| 10 | The newly-adopted directive extends the Second Company Law Directive 's minimum restrictions on the acquisition by a public company ( or its nominees ) of its own shares to acquisitions of shares in a parent company by a subsidiary . |
| 11 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |
| 12 | Can the minis can the minister of state in view of his many visits to America , say whether he agrees with the Secretary of State 's earlier statement that American does not have a minimum wage legislation ? |
| 13 | During one of his many trips to Europe , the women 's foundation-wear manufacturer saw 56-year-old actress Sarah Bernhardt playing a 21-year-old . |
| 14 | The Minister has just appointed two of his own governors to Stratford school in my constituency . |
| 15 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 16 | Mr de Klerk sent a company of his own troops to Ciskei to stop reprisals . |
| 17 | And at the same time , mainly voluntarily , lie devolved a considerable part of his own power to Neville Chamberlain . |
| 18 | The reduction of the other to means and of his own ends to survival , itself no more than a means without ends left to serve , would be tolerable , if at all , only because the variety of human ends will open up again for him if he ever gets to shore . |
| 19 | On 1 August Nos. 145 and 150 were transferred and pushed across the gap in the rails at Norbury , whence they were able to travel under their own power to Penge depôt . |
| 20 | Nearby Truro has a modern cathedral , river trips down the River Fal with its many creeks to Falmouth , a country museum and country park . |
| 21 | Too far along her own road to hell to draw back now , she continued rashly , her eyes wide in feigned surprise . |
| 22 | Under the scheme anyone can send a leaf-shaped card to the June global summit , in Brazil , with their own message to world leaders about the environment . |
| 23 | ‘ True equality wo n't come until women have the freedom to behave naturally with their own approach to problems . |
| 24 | I believe that support this and I 've already seen in my own district to traffic calming which never previously existed . |
| 25 | These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles . |
| 26 | It has very strict rules , both in its Charter and in its own Guide to Producers , but these have been increasingly flouted . |
| 27 | This is a topic of interest in its own right to geographers , planners , economists and sociologists , in addition to its implications for electoral change . |
| 28 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 29 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 30 | Members of Mongolia 's approximately 300 rural co-operatives had to decide on their own approach to privatization . |