Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insider dealing in this respect is controlled by restricting the number of traders who have access to information , a technique which they believe is easier than trying to control how much information is announced over a given period of time . |
| 2 | The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiastical possessions , as well as those who associated with them afterwards . |
| 3 | Each major opera company in this country has an outreach and education programme and the Arts Council 's touring programme supports clients who take opera to areas of the country which would not otherwise have access to it . |
| 4 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 6 | A new feature this year is the inclusion of details of those attractions who offer concessions to members of the Transport Trust ‘ Travelback Scheme ’ . |
| 7 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 8 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 9 | The talk was one of the many social activities which include visits to Exbury Gardens , Bournemouth and Haslemere Theatre . |
| 10 | Ten units each in two stages structured for practice in special vocabulary , language use , and extension activities which give opportunity to practice language in a less controlled way . |
| 11 | His ultimate conversion , after long and courteous discussions which added cubits to Gandhi 's stature , provided a timely justification of the latter 's claim to leadership . |
| 12 | Given the complexity of the issues involved here , and the fact that discussions which gave rise to teacher comment were frequently lengthy and often contentious , any attempted summary of remarks is necessarily difficult . |
| 13 | In Dewsbury the Council got the magistrates to cooperate in reporting pubs which gave sweets to children under thirteen in order to entice them inside the Wigan Council got the Home Secretary to the local police force . |
| 14 | The elements which bring language to life in a classroom are gestures , handling and touching things , incidents , pictures , some or all of which may be part of a game or a contest . |
| 15 | The starting point for investigation may be taken to be the eighteenth-century revolutionary movements which gave impetus to beliefs that social progress was possible and that social organization could be reconstructed in accordance with rational principles . |
| 16 | Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were . |
| 17 | The legislature creates a rather abstract mandate and an agency to implement it , while only defining explicitly the offences which give rise to prosecution . |
| 18 | These openings can be found by ramblers who prefer daylight to darkness and , like me , like to wander in search of them , but the black labyrinth to which they lead , the complex network below ground , is reserved exclusively for those experienced in subterranean travel , hardy adventurers who risk rockfalls and flooding to satisfy an insatiable curiosity to go where few men have been before , to see what few men have seen before . |
| 19 | Testing laboratories and occupational health departments should find the data concerning the proportion of non-responders who have antibodies to core antigen useful in estimating the number of hepatitis B carriers likely to be revealed with use of the protocol suggested in the joint working party 's paper . |
| 20 | She said drivers in the Dales who ferry people to hospitals in nearby towns could be hardest hit . |
| 21 | My second point — about which the Bill is silent — concerns refugees who gain access to Britain . |
| 22 | Hunt for muggers who put knife to baby 's face |
| 23 | An active secondary market in which shareholders who have access to information about the company and are able to deal freely , will lead to share prices accurately reflecting the companies prospects and in turn the accurate pricing of new issues . |
| 24 | Such are the sonnets which include addresses to Nature ( 11 , 20 , 67 , 126 ) , Time ( 12 , 15 , 19 , 123 , 126 ) , Love ( 1 , 137 , 148 ) , the Sun ( 7 , 18 ) , Night ( 27 ) , Day ( 28 ) , the Soul ( 146 ) , or the Muse ( 100 , 101 ) . |
| 25 | The predominant mood of rural England was replaced by the sharper view of vagrant cosmopolitans like Eliot and Ezra Pound , and of course the European expressionists who came face to face with social realism . |
| 26 | Soon they will be playing football together ; it was British troops who brought football to Burma years earlier and the game has become a national one . |
| 27 | This can be provided by Community Alcohol Teams of specialist social workers , nurses and psychologists who provide support to people at home as well as information , education and guidance to other agencies handling drinkers . |
| 28 | Mariana is yoked in an arranged marriage to her uncle , Philip IV ; she , as representative of the Spanish crown , is also a representative of the colonial and religious yokes which bound Mexico to Spain . |
| 29 | It is not every failure to comply with law or every constitutional and non-constitutional short cut which adds up to an approach to powers which give rise to questions of legitimacy . |
| 30 | Gangs of the energy clans jealously guarded those ports which gave access to power stations and thus to the heat sink . |