Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact . |
| 2 | The testimony also coincided with the British release of Commander Bond 's latest venture , The Living Daylights ; in one of the nicest reversals of reality , some reviewers compared Bond to North , rather than vice-versa . |
| 3 | The extent to which individual disciplines make use of libraries in their researches may be expected to vary , but when one sees that some universities spend 50% to 100% per capita more than others , it does suggest that the value placed by university managers on their libraries varies in some highly individualistic ways . |
| 4 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 5 | They were but a few examples giving testimony to campaigns against the commercial exploitation of living things for the creation of products and processes for industry , agriculture and research science . |
| 6 | Such lists aid access to second and subsequent words in terms . |
| 7 | Such motivations took students to colleges throughout the world to learn military science , railway engineering , medicine , etc. , at the beginning of the century just as contemporary liuxuesheng ( overseas students ) learn about computers and technology at American universities . |
| 8 | Before we consider how these ideologies affected attitudes to death , we must glance at the social and economic changes that provided the context within which they operated . |
| 9 | These companies pay lip-service to management development , fashioning their big progressive mouths with a cosmetic of highly developed lipstick techniques . |
| 10 | Jaq had hired these bodyguards to lend credence to Meh'Lindi 's role as a mistress , of perverse tastes , a tourist of disaster through the savaged and demolished sectors where a degree of anarchy still ruled . |
| 11 | These gateways gave entrance to avenues with covered arcades on each side which led to the centre of the enclosure . |
| 12 | Structural power in these networks affects access to information , to resources , to decision-making and to cooperation . |
| 13 | Together these firms gave birth to Canning Town , where the vast majority of their workforces resided , and spawned numerous subsidiary industries ( Figure 1.2 ) . |
| 14 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 15 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 16 | While it is unlikely that a feminist politics informed their development , these concepts draw attention to routines which , in many households , are deeply gendered . |
| 17 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 18 | These users want access to tools to extend the spatial database as well as to make spatial analyses . |
| 19 | These examples lend weight to Masterman 's assertion that ‘ news presentation is an ideological construction , rather than a matter of unproblematic reporting ’ ( Masterman , 1985:106 ) . |
| 20 | These numbers exclude accidents to gliders , hang gliders , microlight aircraft , para-gliders and other activities associated with sporting aviation . |
| 21 | These findings add urgency to UN negotiations to bring forward a global ban on CFCs and related chemicals under the Montreal Protocol . |
| 22 | These deficiencies give rise to dissatisfaction in those who can see increasing inequalities in a society where suburbanites and those in the smaller towns and cities of the south of England have experienced large material gains through house-price increases and tax changes . |
| 23 | The increased frequency of HLA-DR-positive cells in Dupuytren 's disease indicates expression of major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) class II molecules , and the potential ability of these cells to present antigen to T-lymphocytes . |
| 24 | After many years dispensing tea to supporters , Colin took up football with the club this season and , to boost his confidence , I appointed him skipper . |
| 25 | L.F. COSTERTIUM , FECIT ’ ( Marcus Agrippa , Son of Lucius , consul for the third time , built this ) — for many years gave rise to misconceptions regarding the period of building of the Pantheon . |
| 26 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 27 | ‘ Archie Gemmill , the reserve team coach , would in many ways provide similarities to Cloughie . |
| 28 | All courses relate theory to practice , and interdisciplinarity is a principle of the design of all courses , exemplified in Humanities Combined and in Modern Studies in the Humanities . |
| 29 | All students have access to specialist courses in research methods run by the Faculty of Social Sciences . |
| 30 | The competition for places may be fierce where all employees have access to facilities . |