Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a poem continually relating Christian religion to fertility ritual Eliot 's painted annunciation hints at the most primitive rites not only in its ‘ nimbus ’ but also in its drought-stricken landscape , where ‘ The wilderness is cracked and browned. , |
| 2 | The Environment Committee concluded by approving five new OECD acts aimed at bolstering the strategy of " sustainable development " as follows : i ) Environmental Indicators & Information ( for policy-makers and the public ) ; ii ) Use of Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy ; iii ) Co-operative Investigation & Risk Reduction of Existing Chemicals ; iv ) Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control ( advocating policies which take into account risks to world environment ) ; v ) Reduction of Trans-Frontier Movement of Wastes * The reports can be ordered at HMSO Bookshops Guardian 28 January , 1 February Independent 28 January Times 28 January , 1 February Financial Times 28 , 29 , 31 January , 1 February International Herald Tribune 31 January The Economist 2 February OECD Press Releases 31 January |
| 3 | If everyone ( or at least those who can mould opinion and wield sanctions ) implicitly agrees that it is weak to get upset , and a sign of personal incompetence to make mistakes , then openness entails real risks to staffroom status and even to promotion and other career prospects . |
| 4 | Editor , — In addition to the risks to health care staff and patients from HIV and hepatitis B outlined by the Joint Working Party of the Hospital Infection Society and the Surgical Infection Study Group , during ‘ invasive procedures ’ there is also a risk of transmission from health care staff to patients . |
| 5 | Our conversations range from the Arts to Child Psychology . |
| 6 | A grant of £950 will be given to Dramarama creative arts to part fund a theatre project in Middlesbrough for people who are physically handicapped or who have learning difficulties . |
| 7 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 8 | However , the difficulties of this approach became apparent in attempts to relate these parental characteristics to child behaviour . |
| 9 | However , Webern 's Six Orchestral Pieces and Berg 's Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg did pose acute problems for listeners . |
| 10 | People follow in search of work , adding population concentration to capital accumulation . |
| 11 | Also at Horstead Keynes are the carriage sheds where work is undertaken to restore coaching stock to working order . |
| 12 | Add your name and address and send the card to Vision Video Contest , Daily Mirror , Blackhorse Road , London SE99 7TY . |
| 13 | Send your name and address on a card to WOMAN /Toshiba microwave offer , Nelson Bostock Communications , 3 Portobello Mews , London W11 3DQ . |
| 14 | For 25 minutes , fabulous figures and floats that owe a great deal to fibre optics and underlit , liquid-nitrogen smoke glide past in a dazzle of light and changing colour . |
| 15 | This can be anything from cleaning an old pond to tree planting or landscaping a piece of waste ground . |
| 16 | The advent of the NHS Training Authority in 1985 gave a great boost to management development nationally . |
| 17 | Because it is so good at suppressing acid , omeprazole acts as a powerful boost to gastrin production . |
| 18 | The new latrine in its fairly protected situation , and the newly appointed shithouse clerk was to be a great boost to Commando morale during the days ahead . |
| 19 | Cautious welcome for £1bn boost to business Business reacted with a mixture of short-term relief and long-term anxiety to Mr Lamont 's measures , writes Magnus Grimond |
| 20 | FRANCE 'S new prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy , who cut top rate value added tax in his first policy statement last week to give an estimated £500m boost to consumer spending is likely to turn his attention next to savings and investment with new incentives to stimulate share buying . |
| 21 | It appears not to be input-specific but may provide a generalized boost to impulse traffic . |
| 22 | It would mean a £200 billion boost to world trade . |
| 23 | THE French Government looked ready to back down to angry farmers last night and torpedo a £200 billion boost to world trade . |
| 24 | Agreement on GATT will mean an estimated Pounds 200 billion boost to world trade . |
| 25 | It easily financed the 1992–93 PSBR , though two factors will not be repeated — the huge demand for gilts after the Tories unexpectedly won the April 1992 election and the boost to sterling funding from the massive sale of foreign-currency reserves during the ERM crisis . |
| 26 | We carried on down Avenida del Sol to Radio Tawantinsuyo where , on last-minute South American Handbook advice , I placed ten radio adverts for my notebooks . |
| 27 | ( Which brings to mind notions of whether Sun will ever offer a cross-licence to Unix System Labs for some reason or another . ) |
| 28 | Meals to suit every mood from self-service snacks to cafe society fare served in elegant luxury . |
| 29 | But at Camperdown we see , for the first time , the unbroken en suite arrangements of private and principal apartments , from bedroom to dining room , with each room in the sequence which it would be used so that the mistress of the house need never appear in hall or corridor unless going out . |
| 30 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |