Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brathay Exploration Group ( 05394 33942 ) A revamped and excellent organisation which offers the best chance for 15- to 25-year-olds of getting on an expedition ; this year to South China , Iceland , two to Norway ( Lapland and Jotunheimen ) , around Mont Blanc and to several of the remoter parts of Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The next morning , the Prior , true to his word , immediately sent off a courier to Thomas of Learmouth whilst Corbett despatched one of his retinue with his letter to Burnell . |
| 4 | Some attribute this surge of investment to ties of family and culture which helped Chinese living in Taiwan and Hong Kong to invest in countries like Indonesia and Thailand , where ethnic Chinese dominate commerce . |
| 5 | Loss to date of hearing |
| 6 | Chart 15 , from Karen Wruck at the Harvard Business School , shows part of the answer why : in a highly leveraged firm , default is triggered by the inability to meet payments to claimants accounting for a much larger proportion of the firm 's value than in a firm with more equity ; and the loss to creditors of failing to agree on new terms is thus potentially bigger . |
| 7 | At the opposite end of the table , Bangor may struggle again and their cause has n't been helped by the loss to Cliftonville of ace striker Johnny Poole . |
| 8 | At the opposite end of the table , Bangor may struggle again and their cause has n't been helped by the loss to Cliftonville of ace striker Johnny Poole . |
| 9 | Economic effects : loss to community of school-related jobs , income , or services ; difficulty in attracting workers or keeping workers in the community . |
| 10 | As a result of what was reportedly a wide-ranging discussion , it was agreed to establish as a prelude to discussion of the Union Treaty two bilateral commissions to negotiate on the most contentious issues in USSR-Russian Federation relations , namely the delineation of state powers , ownership of state property , and the rights to dispose of natural resources . |
| 11 | PPB and ZBB are largely ignored in the UK and , as a prelude to part of the discussion in chapter 7 , this chapter concludes by outlining the strategy adopted by central government since the mid-1960s . |
| 12 | Such names will be distasteful to many older people , but perhaps their introduction is the prelude to recognition of other people 's potential value and , in common with other caricatured portrayals , some of them are amusing or even helpful . |
| 13 | As often happens , this younger generation of ‘ Tractarians ’ who were leading the crusade on the side of ‘ collectivism ’ joined forces with the older generation like J. A. Macfadyen who had remained Calvinist in their views and ‘ deplored the modern nondenominational spirit , the temper of indifference to questions of church order ’ , the spirit which saw local churches as ‘ mere voluntary associations for religious purposes , with power to determine their own polity and prescribe their own sphere of action ’ . |
| 14 | An indifference to hygiene of body and environment . |
| 15 | As so defined , this ground for interception was wide enough to cover just about anything , from murder to breach of the peace . |
| 16 | In other words a serious crime amounts to anything from murder to obstruction of the highway , the latter being committed where large numbers of people gather to march and demonstrate . |
| 17 | Robert Jackson , the employment minister , has a ready reply to criticisms of TEC funding . |
| 18 | Innocent 's reply to Philip of Swabia 's supporters , addressed to Duke Berthold of Zähringen , declared that Guido of Preneste had acted neither as an elector nor as a judge but merely as a reporter ( denunciator ) on the qualities of Philip as a person unworthy . |
| 19 | In reply to accusations of self-interest on the eve of the Human Rights Now Tour Sting exploded : ’ I 'm the sort of person who really needs publicity , ha ha . |
| 20 | Thank you for your recent letter in reply to mine of 15th May . |
| 21 | By nature a man of moderation and thrift , he would limit visits to places like the Royal Club to occasions of celebration . |
| 22 | 2.1 Following detailed discussion at the Council 's Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee , it has been decided that SCOTVEC should now proceed beyond the pilot programme to implementation of the new system : it was felt that the work to date on the pilot courses has provided enough experience to confirm the adoption of the Policy Paper 's principles as the basis of the new operational system . |
| 23 | Some of these are further extended in the detached bungalow analysed by King ( 1984 ) , as part of an opposition to elements of modernity and urbanization which constitute the major transformations of the environment over the last two centuries . |
| 24 | Her attack on any notion of art as ‘ expressive ’ was generalized into an opposition to works of art whose main effect on an audience lies in their ‘ meaning ’ . |
| 25 | Nor should industry expect ‘ to find refuge in a perpetually depreciating currency ’ , Mrs Thatcher said , underlining Nigel Lawson 's opposition to devaluation of the pound . |
| 26 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 27 | On July 21 the six groups formally agreed on a continued ceasefire and on maintaining opposition to forces of former President Siyad Barre in the south , and on respect for " coexistence and national unity " . |
| 28 | MR TRISTAN Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , last night repeated the Government 's implacable opposition to plans of M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , to raise the EC 's budget by 30 per cent over the next five years — a plan which would cost British taxpayers at least one billion pounds extra per year , writes Boris Johnson , EC Correspondent , in Luxembourg . |
| 29 | He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff , ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East . |
| 30 | In the first , I discuss the relations between fallibilism and naturalism by examining the opposition to naturalism of the pragmatist , C. S. Peirce , and the way that he reconciles this with his fallibilism . |