Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Out " tray held two manila files , the top labelled " Chapel — Proposals for transfer to Department of the Environment , and the second , a large , old and unwieldy file which had been much mended , was marked " New Laboratory — Commissioning " . |
| 2 | Try the early summer flowering B. alternifolia , its shoots wreathed with clusters of pale purple flowers , and August flowering B. davidii , with tapering heads of white to purple at its stem tips . |
| 3 | There are , however , a number of formal and , more importantly , informal channels of communication to government about the mood of the House . |
| 4 | The usual order is judgment for arrears of rent to date of termination of the tenancy , and for mesne profits to date of hearing and thereafter mesne profits at a daily rate and ( almost invariably calculated by reference to the rent ) from the date of hearing until actual possession is given up . |
| 5 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 6 | However , it makes sense to keep the variations of lighting within reasonable bounds from shot to shot by shooting your scenes in groups which are consistently lit . |
| 7 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The political pressures of comprehensive reorganisation of secondary education in Britain , combined with increasing recognition of multilingualism in British schools in response to migration into the UK , led to greater sensitivity to the facts of multi- dialectalism and language variety . |
| 10 | The section provides that the Secretary of State may make provisions by regulations in relation to revised accounts and reports which , in particular , may : — make different provisions according to whether the previous documents are replaced or merely supplemented by a statement of corrections ; deal with the functions of the auditors ; require the directors to take specified steps in relation to circulation to members and others entitled under section 238 ; laying before a general meeting and delivery to the Registrar ; and the application of provisions of the Act ( including penalties ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 13 | The plasma CCK concentrations in response to infusion of graded doses of CCK-33 were not significantly different between the three experiments . |
| 14 | That is , cinematic signification , especially in the age of high technology and 30-million-dollar film , comes closer than other forms of signification to resemblance of reality . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus irreducible elements are seen to be the fundamental building blocks with respect to multiplication for the system Z. |
| 18 | It is an etiquette in which the participants tacitly assume that there are reciprocal obligations with respect to right of way , freedom from inquisitive glances and capricious encroachments upon privacy . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The sun was low in the sky now , shimmering the mud flats in a golden glow — and there were the graceful avocets , sweeping long curved bills from side to side through the fine silt , scooping up their favourite opossum shrimps and rag worms : a marvellous sight . |
| 21 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 22 | Alf and Bessie lived in Cricklewood , and would receive visits from time to time from Bessie 's sister Minnie who , having worked alongside her father at Curry Rivel School for a while , later became headmistress of a similar but smaller establishment in Newton St Loe , Somerset . |
| 23 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 24 | In Sheffield a small , interconnected group of industrialists dominated football , passing down their directorships from father to son like family property . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Reportedly Univel has already lined up at least 70-plus companies to port to Destiny including WordPerfect , Oracle , Borland , Gupta , Lotus , 3Com , Ingres , Hyperdesk , Sybase , Informix , Frame , Applix and Island Graphics . |
| 27 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 28 | In this experiment , which used the same general procedures as those employed by Hall and Channell ( 1985 b ) , rats received 16 days of pre-exposure to presentation of a light , enough for their tendency to orient to habituate . |
| 29 | Meantime , the important principle which emerges is that the network measure is concerned with an underlying variable of integration to a social group ; hence , selection of indicators is motivated by the need to characterize in a principled way differences between individuals with respect to degree of integration . |
| 30 | The Gulf crisis caused revenues from tourism to fall by 65 per cent ( official estimate ) by December and dues from the Suez canal were down by 25 per cent compared with 1989 . |