Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 2 | As Maitland , who was a contemporary of Dicey , recognized , one repercussion of the consequent growth in the quantity and complexity of government business was that there was ‘ a tendency … on the part of parliament to confine itself to the work of legislation , of framing general rules of law , and of entrusting the power of dealing with particular cases to the king 's ministers , to boards of commissioners , to courts of law ’ . |
| 3 | In 1877 Anglicans founded the Guild of St Matthew , the first organization inside the Church of England to address itself to the social implications of Christianity since the 1850s . |
| 4 | It had not been lessened when William of Ypres , the surly Flemish commander of the royalist army , had begun to question her extensively about the size and strength of the garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol , the state of the Empress 's exchequer , the loyalty of her supporters , and whether Geoffrey of Anjou was planning an invasion of England to help himself to the throne by right of his wife . |
| 5 | ‘ I have no love for the very common attitude which places certain literature and pictorial matter in the realm of art to justify it to the establishment … |
| 6 | Fun-filled Faliraki is only a 20–25 minute walk away but there is a public bus service which departs from outside the hotel , and lots of taxis to whisk you to the beach and Faliraki centre . |
| 7 | In 1.1 , for example , we showed a sequence of instructions to add one to the operand field of an " add " instruction , so that when executed it referred to successive locations in store . |
| 8 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 9 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 10 | Well it did take a bit of organization to get yourself to the end of the walk , erm with your your weekly rubbish or your daily rubbish , to get that put away . |
| 11 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 12 | Delaney fixed the detonating pins into the plastic , using the remaining length of wire to bind it to the timer , making a DIY bomb . |