Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was not so much the fear of the air — or of the weary hours to be passed before they reached London Heathrow — as the fear of the ocean . |
| 2 | The usual convention , followed in this example , is to place the largest , slice on the left and for the other slices to be drawn in descending order . |
| 3 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 4 | Sale agreements commonly provide for the value of the pension rights to be calculated according to a formula set out in the agreement and for the detailed calculations to be agreed between the parties ' actuaries , or , if they do not agree , to be determined by another actuary acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 5 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 6 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 7 | She rested her head against a cushion so that she could stare straight up through the network of rigging and past the light-blanched sails to where the stars wheeled their cold fire beyond the mastheads . |
| 8 | For all its success , molecular biology is still preoccupied with enumeration — the enumeration of the molecular components of cells and of the distinctive organisms to which they belong . |
| 9 | Anyway , the implication of my argument , and of the neurological experiments to which I have referred , is that the functions of the left side of the brain have been developed in a very special way in the human species and that this specialization is reflected in the universals of human culture , including the general structure of language , all of which are reflections of the fact that the left side of the brain operates in binary logic . |
| 10 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 11 | She removed her wooden pattens and , concealing them in her cloak , slipped noiselessly into the tower , past the guardchamber and up the winding stairs to the middle floor where she concealed herself in an alcove outside the chamber door . |
| 12 | On show are sculptures dating from antiquity to the early Christian era , and from the Middle Ages to the present day , with special emphasis on modern German examples . |
| 13 | W. K. C. Guthrie , who has drawn attention to this , makes the interesting point that it was probably an Ionian idea , since ‘ it reappears in Ionian philosophy and in the eastern peoples to whose influence early Ionia lay particularly open ’ . |
| 14 | We wish to see the key role of church and other voluntary-aided schools secured and available equally and on the same criteria to all religions . |
| 15 | Along the north scarp of the Downs runs a series of parishes with land evenly distributed from the foot , and across the different soils to their northern boundaries . |
| 16 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |