Example sentences of "of [noun] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior . |
| 2 | The day of the opening of Danu to the emissions of the outside world , a couple of ancient boats gurgled alongside the wharf , bearing a crowd of stage extras from the outlying , historically malai islands . |
| 3 | The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association . |
| 4 | In the past , rationing took the form of requests to the banks by the Bank of England , and hire-purchase controls . |
| 5 | Disclosure of damage to the nests of a colony of little terns came yesterday during a VIP visit to the former defence research site led by Minister for the Environment , David Maclean . |
| 6 | The problems that have arisen in applying the principles of the law of negligence to the facts of a case such as the present result from the following matters . |
| 7 | He 's continually er , persecuting them , and there 's many , many indications that he uses er , poisoned gas , or chemical weapons , and er lays waste their whole villages , and he 's seeking to do this because he wants to dominate his own country , and not allow any minorities a chance to look after themselves , and the same applies of course to the Kurds in the north , whom we have a direct responsibility , the international community , to protect . |
| 8 | It appears that under the Act of 1980 the content of that policy was entirely a matter for the governors , subject of course to the requirements of section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 9 | I began as the kind of feminist who said , " It 's not men , it 's the system , " but this journey convinced me that men and masculinity , in their everyday , individual manifestations , constitute a systematic bloc of resistance to the women of their own community and class . |
| 10 | One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue ! |
| 11 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 12 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 13 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 14 | The difficulty of using this form of patronage whose scarcity could give offence to those who were unlucky is illustrated by the difficulties of the Duke of Montrose and his son , Lord George Graham , in 1739–40 , when Lord George , who hoped to combine a career as a naval officer with membership in the House of Commons , first obtained command of a ship , and was thus enabled to offer places in the line of command to the sons of freeholders in the area of Montrose influence in central Scotland . |
| 15 | A conference was held in Washington on Jan. 22-23 on the co-ordination of aid to the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | In the last resort , the key to these interpretations of liberalism lies in the requirement of harm to the interests of others , for individual autonomy may only be curtailed in order to preserve the liberty of others . |
| 17 | The sixth Duke of Devonshire came into possession of the property in 1811 and it was he who introduced a menagerie of animals to the gardens of Chiswick House , including deer ; kangaroos ; elks ; emus ; Indian bulls and goats of several kinds . |
| 18 | His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa , those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire , and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile . |
| 19 | Det Con Dave Stanmore of Bootle CID said : ‘ It was a despicable crime which caused a lot of distress to the families of servicemen who died during the war . |
| 20 | Pride : Pride causes much wilful action in pursuit of solutions to the problems of addictive disease . |
| 21 | There was no right of recourse to the courts in respect of suspension and refusal of listing and no right in respect of cancellation . |
| 22 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 23 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 24 | No evidence was seen of restriction of digestion to the tips of the incisors . |
| 25 | At the council of Gumley in Leicestershire two years later , possibly as a response to some of Boniface 's criticisms , Aethelbald issued a grant of privileges to the churches in Mercia , conceding immunity from royal food-rents and from all works and burdens except the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies ( CS 140 , 178 : S 92 ) . |
| 26 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I really owe a lot of thanks to the gypsies for helping me in my start . ’ |
| 28 | Portsmouth1 GRAEME SOUNESS sprinted from the dugout , sank to his knees and offered a silent prayer of thanks to the heavens at Highbury yesterday afternoon . |
| 29 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 30 | As part of his programme of visits to the regions of the Russian Federation , Yeltsin on July 22-24 visited the Krasnodar region , the Kalmyk Republic and Omsk . |