Example sentences of "of [noun] and [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He probably shared Khruschev 's contempt for conservationists and the defenders of the national heritage , who stood in the way of progress and tried to suborn Communist officials from their duty to demolish the redundant vestiges of the old order . |
| 2 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 3 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 4 | The research involves an investigation of attitudes and approaches to flexible working within major hotel chains , based on interviews with corporate personnel managers . |
| 5 | Germany then rapidly emerged as the greatest industrial and military power in Europe , an object of fear and envy to other states . |
| 6 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 7 | The days that followed this discovery saw a steady increase in activity , with the town of St Pierre now being showered with light falls of ash and subjected to unpleasant wafts of sulphurous fumes . |
| 8 | This is an important mechanism if a country ( a ) has a high proportion of imports and exports to national income and ( b ) operates under a system of floating exchange rates . |
| 9 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 10 | This offer is valid , on request only , at the time of booking and applies to all performances except Saturday evenings — POSTAL BOOKINGS ONLY . |
| 11 | Maxim was sitting on a wooden bench in the uncertain shade of a row of poplars and chatting to two small schoolboys in fresh whites . |
| 12 | With Wales ' top clubs running in sackfuls of tries and playing to packed houses , Davies believes the national side are poised to reap the benefits . |
| 13 | The last paragraph introduced the consideration of guilt and leads to this and another important factor of sexual dysfunction — anger . |
| 14 | On the death of his father in 1809 , he became head of the Munros of Novar and succeeded to large estates , including that of Novar House , Ross-shire , thus becoming one of the chief landed proprietors in the counties of Ross , Cromarty , and Moray . |
| 15 | In 1984 , when she was 18 , she was arrested , convicted of assault and sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 16 | There is one proviso : s6 applies to clauses excluding liability for breach of the implied terms in contracts for the sale of goods and applies to all contracts , including those not made in the course of a business . |
| 17 | When the neural tube closes ( Chapter 2 ) , a group of cells detaches itself at the site of fusion and migrates to many parts of the body and differentiates into a wide variety of cell types . |
| 18 | But if a little exercise is desired , first cross the bridge on the Tan Hill road and follow a path upriver along the edge of cliffs and descend to another bridge to regain the Birkdale road , returning along it past the Force . |
| 19 | Ruling class ideology distorts the true nature of society and serves to legitimate and justify the status quo . |
| 20 | We aim to make and broadcast programmes that accurately reflect all parts of society and appeal to all communities in a fair way . |
| 21 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 22 | The struggle over Machault 's proposals was fought with a bitterness which for several years partially paralysed the workings of government and led to widespread speculations of imminent revolution . |
| 23 | There was also support for Paris House who was the subject of a bet of £11,000-£2,000 and cut to 5–1 . |
| 24 | Outdoors , on all kinds of surfaces where the lines can be abraded as they are dragged , in a range of temperatures and exposed to ultra-violet rays , and often made wet from dew in the grass , all the lab tests become suspect . |
| 25 | Change in the 1990s must also be envisaged within the wider context of an integrated and more open European Market , which is likely to cause all manner of stresses and strains to British society and economy . |
| 26 | No one will BE the same from now on having been drawn into the realms of mystery and taken to new depths . |
| 27 | This is sometimes a source of surprise and anger to those unfamiliar with inpatient care , yet when one examines the reasons more closely there is little cause for surprise . |
| 28 | A distinction can therefore be made between approaches to the study and application of geography that involve the analysis of systems on the one hand and the synthesis of facts and knowledge concerning sets of systems and related to particular places on the other . |
| 29 | In other words , there was a growth in the use of ‘ framework legislation ’ , with Parliament establishing a general framework for controlling or regulating an area of activity and granting to governmental agencies both rule-making powers to put flesh on the framework or quasi-judicial powers to resolve disputes that arose in the course of implementing these schemes . |
| 30 | Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples . |