Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Anglophile girls in Adidas plead fruitlessly for admission to the bus in the hope of getting a piece of Clint . |
| 2 | Regardless of evidence to the contrary , the authorities in the People 's Republic of China maintain that there are no political prisoners in China . |
| 3 | Because such systems do not take into account the variation in individuals , they are generally only of interest to the classicist . |
| 4 | Because such systems do not take into account the variation in individuals , they are generally only of interest to the classicist . |
| 5 | Excuses are only of interest to the competition , problems and difficulties need facing and resolving . |
| 6 | The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal . |
| 7 | These might include the giving of instructions to others in a group , problem-solving activities related to the school or local community , role-play and simulation work and , where feasible , the undertaking of small representative roles on behalf of a group , a class , or the school , eg with visitors to the school . |
| 8 | Far from meeting the equivalence criterion , these alternations express differences in focus which can be explicated only with reference to the discourse matrix in which they are embedded ; furthermore , they do not have a systematic social distribution in the speech community . |
| 9 | Each picture-strip depicted both of the events referred to by the sentence , and the two strips differed only with respect to the order in which the events were depicted . |
| 10 | The communicative situations evoked by different poems may vary considerably , not only with respect to the identity of the speaking persona , but also with respect to the scope of the deictic field , the presence and status of the addressee , the position reserved for the reader and so on . |
| 11 | Cost may well be a big influence on all your decisions , but choose the venue not only with regard to the quantity and type of work you have for display but also the likely customers it will attract , and therefore its location . |
| 12 | Whilst still positive , Solihull secondary school teachers are somewhat less so with regard to the flexibility and effectiveness of the booklet than with its general utility . |
| 13 | On the other hand , in the next ten units ( Saint Laurent , Chinon , and Cruas ) , the engine rooms are located radially with respect to the reactor buildings . |
| 14 | The building pattern of the northern part was dominated by the Hanseatic League and this work , together with areas to the west ( Holland ) and the east ( Poland ) along the Baltic are considered on p. 136 . |
| 15 | Second , services were grouped together with respect to the scale upon which they needed to be provided . |
| 16 | The canal age effectively began in south-west Lancashire where it developed naturally from improvements to the river navigations serving Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 17 | Apparently in deference to The Builder 's comments , the submission date was extended and designs had to be inscribed with a motto and delivered to Westminster Hall on or before 20th March , 1857 . |
| 18 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 19 | However , the new register will include personal details , especially in relation to the benefit and discount systems . |
| 20 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 21 | I refer to the decision in respect of roads and the environment and to the prospective legislation that will put railways into the same category , especially in relation to the channel link . |
| 22 | I am sure that my hon. Friend welcomes the steps taken by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in the Agriculture Council on this matter , especially in relation to the export of live horses . |
| 23 | More recently , writers interested in social mobility ( the movement of individuals and groups up and down the social scale ) have studied rates of social mobility in different societies in an attempt to discover its causes , especially in relation to the process of industrialization . |
| 24 | Within this structure , the legislation would require an enhancement of the finance and personnel functions , and recognition of the increased responsibilities of College Administrative Officers , especially in relation to the servicing of the new Governing Bodies . |
| 25 | As far as Europe is concerned , it is hoped that variations in copyright laws can soon be harmonised , especially in respect to the introduction of the Single European market on January 1 1993 . |
| 26 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 27 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 28 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 29 | Since at least the later 1970s , perhaps in reaction to the flamboyant ( and highly successful ) practices of the Munrow era , many critics writing in England have suspected that conspicuous and varied orchestrations of medieval and Renaissance music reflect performers ' failure of confidence in the variety and quality of the music they are performing . |
| 30 | Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment . |