Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 2 | Due to the difficulties of achieving fast even concentrations of gas in such large congested volumes , their adverse effect on human beings , and ineffectiveness on rapidly developing deep- seated carbonaceous fires , and halon systems will normally only have application to parts of the ancillary accommodation such as computer suites . |
| 3 | The cliffs soon give way to miles of long sandy beaches . |
| 4 | MINSK ( Reuter ) — A thousand people packed the main Catholic church here yesterday to pay tribute to victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , a day after an unprecedented protest march through the city . |
| 5 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 6 | If he later showed hostility to policies of the United States this was quite separate from his personal feelings about the American people . |
| 7 | In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
| 9 | Although it is easy to observe what is going on in practice , constructing an explicit statement of what the system is that is being considered inevitably gives rise to problems of interpretation and semantics . |
| 10 | Her later career , from the time of her marriage to Darnley in the summer of 1565 , inevitably gave rise to writing of a very different and much more partisan nature . |
| 11 | Text books often include reference to explanations of legislation given by a minister in Parliament , as a result of which lawyers advise their clients taking account of such statements and judges when construing the legislation come to know of them . |
| 12 | Foreign learners increasingly need access to dictionaries of " English Language and Culture " ( for example , Longman 1992 ) not only for literary texts , but for London Underground posters . |
| 13 | The roaring , bellowing growls sometimes gave rise to screams of agony . |
| 14 | Hey ( 1979 ) suggests that Seebohm employed a variety of understandings , shifting from concentration on closely defined function to notions of distinctive competence . |