Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Another stated objective of many case management services is the improvement of the client 's quality of life , and there are a great number of attempts being made to measure quality of life ( QOL ) ( Lehman et al. , 1986 ; Oliver , 1991 ) .
2 Another group of subjects were subjected to REM or Stage 4 sleep deprivation for three nights , and then deprived of sleep altogether for one night , again allowing a comparison of the effects of a four-day cumulation of loss of Stage 4 sleep with REM sleep .
3 This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party , whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament .
4 The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year .
5 The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink .
6 Results of examinations are sent to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates .
7 A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent .
8 Access to tribunals for unfair dismissal of strikers is narrowed to victimization in the complainant 's own ‘ establishment ’ ; workers taking part in it elsewhere no longer count as his fellows .
9 It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire .
10 However grand the latter might be , those who bought the lower order of tickets were condemned to tin huts at the end of the platforms where the sole facility might be a single stand-pipe tap .
11 A group of travellers are going to court to challenge a council 's right to move them on .
12 Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets .
13 All organisations working for the welfare of children were invited to affiliate .
14 We also know that at about the age of 13 a very high proportion of boys are attracted to science and scientific careers .
15 In the early 1890s a growing proportion of revolutionaries were converted to Marxism .
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