Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , derelict land was , until recently , being created faster than it could be reclaimed , Although there are areas of derelict land that should be retained for some of the reasons given by John Gordon , and research sponsored by the Department of the Environment has sought to identify these for appropriate use , there are still far larger areas that , due to the many constraints of the substrates that need to be overcome , are eyesores , health hazards and potential lethal risks to the communities that have to live surrounded by them . |
| 2 | Such common risks to the interests and values they all share still give the allies plenty to fret about collectively . |
| 3 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you always prefer the arts to the sciences ? ’ |
| 5 | In her article on British arts funding ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , March 1992 , pp.1 2 ) Giulia Ajmone Marsan drew attention to a threat from a Tory Minister for Arts to the Arts Council 's freedom from political control . |
| 6 | The successors to the landlords served a six months ' written notice to quit under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 although they did not require the premises for their undertaking . |
| 7 | The teaching role of the bishops , as successors to the apostles , is described as a service to the whole Church . |
| 8 | The International Monetary Fund on Dec. 15announced that it found that Bosnia-Hercegovina , Croatia , Macedonia ( provisionally designated by the IMF " former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia " ) , Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were the successors to the assets and liabilities of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the IMF . |
| 9 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 10 | The contours of one 's outer ears are therefore able to contribute their subtle characteristics to the sounds as in direct hearing . |
| 11 | Words of the ancestors songs to the gods : history and hagiography in an Andean ayllu |
| 12 | Miguel Trovoada , an independent opposition leader who had returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 [ see p. 37674 ] , was elected President on March 3 , 1991 . |
| 13 | Perhaps the mistake we have been making is in applying that thinking to the Moslems but not to the Copts . ’ |
| 14 | The line continued beyond there for another two miles , up three self-acting inclines to the quarries . |
| 15 | I must offer my condolence to the families of the victims . ’ |
| 16 | I wanted a physical scale and mass which would act as counterweight to the columns and the weight of the stone . |
| 17 | Edward Shils contended that " pluralistic politics ' was " marked … by the moderation of political involvement " , and prohibited emotional intensity " .37 Others went further still , and suggested that political apathy might " reflect the health of democracy " ( Lipset ) , or praised it as " a more or less effective counter-force to the fanatics who constitute the real danger to liberal democracy " . |
| 18 | Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her . |
| 19 | ‘ The tragedy which caused the deaths of six people at Sowerby Bridge brought tremendous grief to the families of those who died and was a tragedy to the community itself . ’ |
| 20 | The Smiths are acknowledged as writing with sensitivity , depth and intelligence and the suggestion that they are cashing in on a tragedy at the expense of causing grief to the relatives of its victims is absolutely untrue . |
| 21 | Add the fish stock to the juices and keep warm . |
| 22 | Sweets , as you 'd expect , but also arcade games , and ’ taking my girlfriend to the pictures ’ |
| 23 | A week ago it was announced that the Government would not refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 24 | BA was given the green light for the move yesterday when President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine decided not to refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 25 | But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men . |
| 26 | The discipline and meticulous care in HMI writing owed a great deal to the changes introduced during Sheila Browne 's tenure as Senior Chief Inspector . |
| 27 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 28 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 29 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 30 | First August — a very welcome trip with the driver of the jeep to the bridges over the Orne . |