Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Arche de la Défense at one end of the city to the Parc de la Villette on the other , with the Pyramide of the Louvre , the Musée d'Orsay and Beaubourg in between , Paris can claim to have the most impressive monuments to the religion of culture to be seen anywhere in the Western world . |
| 2 | The environment ministers of the twelve European Community ( EC ) countries have agreed to restrict the transport of toxic waste across their frontiers and to ban in principle the export of waste to Third World countries . |
| 3 | This inspired British legislation to prevent the emigration of skilled workers and ( later ) the export of machinery to other countries . |
| 4 | Basically , the man was a parchment-seller trying to raise good hard silver or gold to finance the export of parchment to Nantes and the import of wine . |
| 5 | Welch objects to our application of a simple algorithm relating phytoplankton chlorophyll to productivity , calling it a ‘ fallacy ’ in the North Pacific because of rapid export of production to higher trophic levels . |
| 6 | Safety includes safety in the context of risks of damage to property as well as in the context of risks of death or personal injury . |
| 7 | Section 3(1) of CPA 1987 provides as follows : ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , there is a defect in a product for the purposes of this Part if the safety of the product is not such as persons generally are entitled to expect ; and for those purposes " safety " , in relation to a product , shall include safety with respect to products comprised in that product and safety in the context of risks of damage to property , as well as in the context of risks of death or personal injury . |
| 8 | For this purpose the Regional Council has agreed a policy on violence to employees at work in order to identify and promote practices which seek to minimise the potential risks of violence to employees . |
| 9 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 10 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 11 | The authority of musicians as such was undermined ; political interest moved from the reorganization of production to the disruption of consumption . |
| 12 | Even the best sailors can be swept into them , apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment . |
| 13 | His conjecture , then , is just one way of making sense of certain anatomical facts across species , evolutionary hypotheses , and observations of impairments of linguistic functions on the part of human patients who had suffered different sorts of damage to their brains . |
| 14 | What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably . |
| 15 | I have heard Christians give all sorts of response to this , for some will feel that indeed a non-Christian will not attain to eternal life . |
| 16 | The author of Poor Robin 's Almanac of 1729 dished out all sorts of advice to readers . |
| 17 | I will start off by defining the sorts of hull to be discussed . |
| 18 | Unexpectedly , perhaps , Foucault traces the beginnings of this epistemic mutation in the thinking of history to Marx . |
| 19 | Husameddin devotes a good deal of space to Molla Fenari 's pilgrimage , making full use of the Arabic sources and adding a certain amount of material of his own . |
| 20 | DIAL ( Disablement Information and Advice lines ) give a great deal of assistance to people who are disabled or who have a disabled relative , and Gingerbread , the charity concerned with one-parent families , does much educative and advisory work . |
| 21 | It welcomes my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's brilliant Budget for its changes in the uniform business rate , which it says are of enormous help to business , a great deal of assistance to growing firms and just what businesses have requested . |
| 22 | ‘ It would add a great deal of colour to my article , please Mr Parnham and give Ana the right kind of Press coverage . ’ |
| 23 | Enabling you to allocate different joystick commands to the three coloured pedals , this nifty little piece of hardware will certainly add a good deal of realism to any driving games you may have in your collection ( except Hard Drivin' , of course , as even a steering wheel and gear shift could n't fuel-inject any realism into that ! ) . |
| 24 | His solution is the pragmatic one , common at the time , which involves establishing as large and vague a syllabus as possible and leaving a great deal of choice to students . |
| 25 | There is a great deal of money to be made from income generated by composers ' royalties and fees as well as the earnings from performing and recording . |
| 26 | And of course there is a great deal of money to be made . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That seems a great deal of money to me ! ’ |
| 28 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 30 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |