Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After giving instructions about his place of burial , he required them to go to his study and take out three great hampers of books and burn them , ‘ Inasmuch as all the comedies , tragedies , pastorals , etc. , heroical poems , love hymns and the like are full of idolatry and especially tend to the overthrow of the Christian religion . ’ |
| 2 | This would consist of a group of employees each of whom would be given the responsibility of monitoring the evacuation of a designated part of the building , checking that all rooms , toilets , cloakrooms , etc. in that area were clear of personnel and then reporting to the ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ at a pre-determined reporting position outside the premises . |
| 3 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 4 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 5 | I shall respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough and the hon. Member for Western Isles on the question of force and then come to the very issue that the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) has raised , which I recognise is relevant . |
| 6 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 7 | The difference between materialist , scientific thought and idealist , ideological thought is that the former recognizes the determination of consciousness and so returns to an empirical or ‘ real ’ world of practical activity to generate abstractions . |
| 8 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 9 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 10 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 11 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 12 | ‘ Eventually the scheme could cover much of Scotland and then spread to England , ’ said Hugh . |
| 13 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 14 | Sheets were attached to each end of a beam of wood and then secured to the highest rafter in the roof , which at this stage was still open to the elements . |
| 15 | Warmed by the Gulf Stream and with an enviably mild climate , it feels like another country — but with all the comforts of home and duty-free shopping to boot ! |
| 16 | If such a flow exists it may assist the seaward movement of debris and hence contribute to the erosion of the coast . |
| 17 | ‘ This is a can of worms and really needs to be looked into carefully , ’ he said . |
| 18 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 19 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 20 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 21 | More exactly , it is seen to mark a point in a process of transition from the idea of self as metaphysically constituted to the idea of self as an individuated , autonomous essence ; self-consciousness rather than divine or natural law becomes constitutive of subjective identity . |
| 22 | At erm that 's that big lighting is there on the basis that if the switch goes down we should have a number of telephones that still have to be available erm and we need to identify them suggested by a red telephone , or using a red telephone situated somewhere . |
| 23 | Delayed gastric emptying , together with reduced gastric mobility , can augment the perception of fullness and thereby contribute to further dieting . |
| 24 | It states that investment is positively related to the expected level of output and negatively related to the existing capital stock . |
| 25 | If the money supply is not expanded sufficiently to meet this demand , interest rates will rise , this in turn will discourage some investment and so contribute to the slowing down in the growth of output and eventually lead to the upper turning-point . |
| 26 | Out of chaos emerged a self-created god , Atum , who was all or nothing , who was the original sun god of Heliopolis and later deemed to be the creative aspect of Re . |
| 27 | Comparative analysis of the mitochondrial small ribosomal subunit RNA ( mtSSUrRNA ) indicates that the mtDNA from P.wickerhamii is very different to that of C.reinhardtii and considerably related to higher plants ( 25 ) . |
| 28 | There are a great number of myths that constantly need to be laid about school dinners . |
| 29 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 30 | The rest of mankind , including the American Indians , were of quite separate and earlier stock , all members of which are , by their nature , lost in primeval savagery , except the Christians who have been redeemed by the grace of Christ and thus belong to God 's Elect . |