Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 2 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 3 | Two religious groups swiftly manoeuvred to the front of the pack : the Roman Catholic church , led by Cardinal John O'Connor , and the Christian Coalition , a group of fundamentalists loyal to Pat Robertson . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 5 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 6 | Quilted or ostentatiously functional — the Swiss army penknife of the trouser kingdom — with a thousand pockets , clips , keyrings and a thing for getting stuff out of horses hooves all attached to the waistband . |
| 7 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 8 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 9 | The eyes all swung to the speaker . |
| 10 | One sector is designated ‘ prime user ’ of a section of track , for example , and the other sectors only contribute to the extent that they cause additional ‘ avoidable ’ costs . |
| 11 | … but in my opinion there can not be a general rule of universal application that the rules of the courts of equity as to confidential relationships necessarily apply to the relation of husband and wife . |
| 12 | In the presidential elections no candidate gained an overall majority ; the choice between the two leading candidates thus passed to the parliament at its first session on Oct. 5 . |
| 13 | The Hoskyns Group have developed a range of computers specially tailored to the hotel industry . |
| 14 | He willed himself to sit quietly , allowing his eyes gradually to adjust to the night . |
| 15 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 16 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 17 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 18 | The incomes of these basic organizations thereafter belonged to the area in which they were located and were lost to the parent organization . |
| 19 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 20 | Thanks also go to the publishing team who put so much into making this possible , they are ( in obligatory alphabetical order ) : Moray ‘ World Traveller ’ Lawson Debbie ‘ Where 's my contact lens ’ Maddison Deirdre ‘ Baby obsession ’ Seeley Joe ‘ Newsdesk ’ Tarrant |
| 21 | The Llechwedd Slate Caverns and the Gloddfa Ganol Slate Mine are both working quarries partly open to the public . |
| 22 | Three models were found : a minimalist model based on limited contact between police officers and social workers through formal channels strictly according to the minimum demanded by procedural dictates ; a collaborative model involving close consultations on an informal as well as formal basis , about progress and proposed courses of action ; and an integrated model involving joint simultaneous investigation as a single operational entity . |
| 23 | Complaints about opt-out schools now go to the Education Department , which has a poor track record , says the National Consumers Council . |
| 24 | These are examples of the way even studies of women 's domestic roles tacitly subscribe to the myth of feminine passivity . |
| 25 | The recruits mainly came to the site of the original food source . |
| 26 | Anne Black , who lives in the area , said that Sunday schools originally travelled to the beach by horse and cart . |
| 27 | She watched as Callum wove his way through the various clusters of people and found her eyes irresistibly drawn to the corner where Luke stood , surrounded by a large group of his friends . |
| 28 | His sperms then migrate to the victim 's testes , and when the second male comes to copulate with a female , the first male 's sperm will be injected into her . |
| 29 | In view of the association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and myocardial infarction , different variables potentially related to the disease were compared between ACE/ID genotypes . |
| 30 | Her eyes firmly glued to the screen , she sat , and she endured and enjoyed . |