Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] of [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comic disruption becomes a much needed gesture of resistance to prevailing conditions in America . |
| 2 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images . |
| 4 | Until recently , a salmon farm inhibited fishing in Skeltar , but this enterprise has since ended and salmon once more have freedom of access to their traditional spawning grounds . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 6 | US-government-funded research has also linked fluoridation of water to an increase in osteosarcoma , a bone cancer . |
| 7 | Through his service under the war treasurers back in 1642 , he had also become man of business to Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , and served conscientiously as an executor of the ex-lord general 's encumbered estate after his death in 1646 . |
| 8 | The conduct struck at by section 19 was made an offence in the 1965 legislation , and was a more frequently prosecuted form of incitement to racial hatred than the utterance of words . |
| 9 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |