Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ arrangements for ensuring , so far as is reasonably practicable , safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use , handling , storage and transport of articles and substances . ’
2 The aim is to improve the scientific basis of investigation and management in the practice of environmental health and to equip participants with the strategic skills to assess and advise on the control of the risks to health from the environment .
3 The study — ‘ Pesticides , Chemicals and Public Health ’ argues that although the levels are rarely fatal , little is known about the risks to health from long term exposure .
4 Tesseract will port Primrose to Unix by year end using Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Pyramid Technology Corp multi-processors .
5 Whether the courts would extend this remedy to information in documents which were accidentally released as opposed to surrepticiously obtained was answered in English and American Insurance Co Ltd v Herbert Smith [ 1988 ] FSR 232 .
6 When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it .
7 This is really two instruments in one , a switch enabling the player to change instantaneously from horn in F to horn in high B flat .
8 The British team , seen below , had their best result to date at a world event , gaining sixth place .
9 The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings .
10 Took his ex-wife to court for suspending his maintenance payments .
11 Such approaches probably owe a great deal to consideration of research by the National Children 's Bureau under Dr Mia Pringle and a consideration of children 's needs as well as their rights .
12 ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’
13 In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 .
14 ( With up to 16Mb of Extended memory , a large database can be entirely memory-resident , which gives a significant boost to performance on tasks such as sort/select and reporting . )
15 There was a welcome boost to morale at the Sussex-based charity Friends of the Young Deaf when WCUK Maidstone marketing manager , Kim Taylor , presented a cheque for £1,000 on behalf of the George Wimpey Charitable Trust .
16 Experience has shown that a grasp of a foreign language , even at a very basic level , is of great benefit both an a practical level and as a boost to confidence to those participating in visits abroad .
17 There would be a boost to industry from the greater net disposable income , and at no cost to the consumer in need , because VAT does not apply to food and necessities .
18 There 's been recent reassessment of the traditional picture of the enforced flight from the labour force to domesticity on the part of women just after the war , and far from a flight , large-scale recruitment to the new industries in the early 1950s now seems to present a more historically accurate picture .
19 In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations .
20 That night , Edward took Erica to dinner at the Savoy Grill in the Strand and explained that he would not be leaving after all .
21 that is , at t , t , marginal gains in reproductive success through growth must be balanced by marginal losses to reproduction through mortality .
22 This figure covers losses to GDP in Malawi , Zimbabwe , Botswana , Zambia , Tanzania , Swaziland and Lesotho .
23 Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ .
24 At school they concealed it automatically from masters and other boys : the secrecy was enjoyable for its own sake , and in any case Emor would have been labelled ‘ childish ’ — the sort of behaviour that was only one step removed from taking a teddy bear to bed with you at night .
25 Meanwhile , Clarify Inc , San Jose , California , pocketed $5.4m in its second round of financing , bringing total investment to date to $8.9m , considerably more than other like-minded start-ups like ProActive Software Inc , Scopus Technology Inc , Aurum Software Inc , Quintus and Lysis Inc , Atlanta , Georgia , have to play with .
26 Coal had been particularly hard hit by the continuing switch to gas as a fuel by the recently privatized electricity supply industry [ see pp. 38111 ; 38300 ] .
27 Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal .
28 When Jason first queried his switch to hooker in the victory at Sheffield , coach John Monie winked and told him : ‘ Just look at your winning pay packet on Thursday . ’
29 Among companies that have opted for a total or partial switch to diesel in recent months are Philips Electronics , Dunn & Bradstreet , the Milk Marketing Board , London Electricity Board and Alliance & Leicester Building Society .
30 We need to reclaim , in the light of the shifts of disability-definition ( from medical to community care interventions , from institution to care in the community , from arts and disability to disability arts ) , the cultural meaning of impairment .
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