Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think you know that , that if th that we have got the skills between us to actually tackle some issues locally |
| 2 | A constitutional amendment first proposed in 1789 , designed to prohibit a Congress from voting pay rises for itself while in session , finally achieved during May the approval of enough states for it to be incorporated in the Constitution . |
| 3 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
| 4 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 5 | Kaleida will initially be housed at Apple 's headquarters , but there are plans for it to be relocated to Silicon Valley later in the year . |
| 6 | When the switch is closed , the full available current flows through it to the load but again no power is dissipated in the switch since the voltage across it is zero . |
| 7 | Too much momentum had gathered behind several of the major reform proposals for them to be abandoned , but the final legislation reflected the government 's intense concern that the new freedom should be carefully circumscribed . |
| 8 | First tonight , a bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow this week — despite calls for him to be banned following the weekend atrocity in Belfast . |
| 9 | A bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow despite calls for him to be banned , following Saturday 's massacre in Belfast . |
| 10 | The beech trees of Yarm 's Beech Tree Court are to stay , says Stockton Borough Council , despite residents ' calls for them to be given the chop . |
| 11 | This sense of deprivation has spilled over into civil conflict or war a sufficient number of times for it to be a continuing threat , or an on-going reality as in Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Burundi , Uganda and Somalia . |
| 12 | And I 'm hearing the word ‘ groom ’ one too many times for it to be coincidence . |
| 13 | It took ages for me to be able to get a |
| 14 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 15 | The survey upon which these findings were based did not provide sufficient details of personal characteristics for us to be able to take account of the influences certain of these might have exerted . |
| 16 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 17 | According to the latter view , scientific knowledge grows continuously as more numerous and more various observations are made , enabling new concepts to be formed , old ones to be refined , and new lawful relationships between them to be discovered . |
| 18 | But there are , we 've got , I 've got three books for you to , to look at for you to do with your project and I might try and find you one or two sentences and references . |
| 19 | Although progress on the issue of the local elections had been made in August , it became increasingly clear that opposition demands for them to be held prior to the presidential poll were unrealistic . |
| 20 | The demands for something to be done were strong and understandable . |
| 21 | The combination of this group of activists with either the residents or the workers was likely to raise questions on the continued operation of the factory , rather than demands for it to be operated safely , as the activists refused to accept that it was possible to work safely with asbestos or other toxic substances , following their similar rebuttal of threshold limits for exposure to radiation in the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 22 | In presenting pupils with a variety of different challenges and situations , drama can , for example , provide opportunities for them to : |
| 23 | This is the time you have worked towards , when you will be working on the ‘ showcase ’ productions which will provide opportunities for you to be seen publicly . |
| 24 | Robert Maxwell has deployed this tactic with considerable success to limit the circulation of several books about him to which he has taken exception . |
| 25 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 26 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 27 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 28 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 29 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 30 | Kant gives several alternative formulations of the basic principle of the categorical imperative , which he believes have the same essential content but present different aspects of it to our thought . |