Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | OWNERS of unregistered dangerous dogs are moving their pets from house to house in a bid to prevent the animals being seized by the police , it has been revealed . |
| 2 | Be that as it may , the judges assumed this duty in 1292 and there are dicta from time to time in the succeeding centuries that it is one they have no power to give up . |
| 3 | While discussion of a corporate information system is as yet largely speculative , our experience of the Payroll/Personnel database system over the last three years has given rise to various working hypotheses of relevance to management in general and the personnel function in particular . |
| 4 | By now there were fewer paeans of praise to fecundity in the magazines ; instead they were asking ‘ Why Young Mothers Feel Trapped ’ ( Redbook ) or , with more than a hint of desperation , offering ‘ 58 Ways To Make Your Marriage More Exciting ’ ( Newsweek ) , Graduate wives complained bitterly , especially in the Guardian , of living like cabbages . |
| 5 | An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in … |
| 6 | The order of genes in these transfer vectors was the same as the order of cloning sites from left to right in pAcAB3 and pAcAB4 ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 7 | The symbolic reproduces this imaginary in discrete , regulated entities — small , discontinuous , easily consumable like the bits of information on a computer screen , like the items in the supermarket , like the small , framed and mirrored segments of the glass-skinned skyscrapers that offer us gleaming reflections of our lives from moment to moment in the high-income , high-tech regions of the American urban environment . |
| 8 | In recent years Abraham and co-workers have performed detailed studies of routes to chaos in helium-xenon lasers { 15 } and have observed , as the laser cavity length is fine-tuned , interspersed bands of chaotic output reached , in certain conditions , by period doubling . |
| 9 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 10 | There has been interest in these questions from time to time in the past , in particular in Britain between the end of World War Two and the early 1960s . |
| 11 | Changes from year to year in the number of people in each age group create difficulties for planning , especially as birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict ; estimating what the school population will be in more than five years ' time becomes increasingly speculative and uncertain . |
| 12 | This generalisation , however , masks the fact that there are considerable variations from country to country in each of these regions . |
| 13 | It is not the same as equal numbers of additions to each area , since there will naturally be variations from cylinder to cylinder in the number of additions just because those additions are random . |
| 14 | Because the eruptions burst from the viscous sub-layer , it is often suggested that they are produced by an instability there — particularly as some features of the motion in this region resemble features of transition to turbulence in a boundary layer ( for example , the development of fast- and slow-moving regions mentioned above resembles the development of three-dimensionality illustrated by Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 15 | They appeared , wrapped like their less exalted sisters from head to foot in black , and ostensibly reluctantly . |
| 16 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |
| 17 | Restitution — Quasi-contract — Moneys had and received — Payments of moneys to revenue in accordance with statutory instrument — Payments made without prejudice to claim for return if statutory instrument void — Whether moneys repayable by revenue with interest — Supreme Court Act 1981 ( c. 54 ) , s. 35A ( as inserted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( c. 53 ) , s. 15(1) , Sch . |
| 18 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |
| 19 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 20 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
| 21 | While bees will orientate their dances with respect to gravity in a darkened hive , in bright light , they orientate with respect to the light . |
| 22 | ‘ Price reductions come out top of the list of incentives for people to book in advance . ’ |
| 23 | Land Rovers fall into two categories with respect to VAT in the UK . |
| 24 | Sunnyvale , California-based Boole & Babbage Inc is to buy back up to 250,000 common shares from time to time in the market time for employee stock option and stock purchase . |
| 25 | So the weaver rocks from side to side in the float as it is transported down the road , the cribber latches on to a fence post between mouthfuls of food , and the wind-sucker , out in a large paddock with other horses , may prefer to swallow air rather than eat the grass . |