Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | Several other insects attach extraneous objects or material to themselves , but for very different reasons . |
2 | At other times it has been possible for an individual to bring foreign coins or bullion to the mint and receive it back as coinage ( minus a fee ) . |
3 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
4 | ‘ Treatment other than by X-rays or surgery to the pituitary gland has little or no effect … |
5 | They either wobble around on their bikes or screech to a sudden halt . |
6 | Your legal liability for accidental injury to third parties or damage to their property . |
7 | They readjust the picture to admit a counter-current of more radical authors or point to the less dramatic use of ‘ experimental ’ and ‘ modernist ’ techniques in the novels of mainstream fiction ( Bradbury 1973:177–7 , 1977:18–20 , 1987:106–11 ; Lodge 1971:9–34 ) . |
8 | It is given by someone who is directing his words or behaviour to another person or persons . |
9 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
10 | Marine Insurance covering injury or damage you may cause to third parties with one of our yachts , and accidental losses or damage to the yacht itself over the amount of £320 . |
11 | … there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
12 | Thus there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It also suggests that there can be substantial differences between temporary workers and regular workers in terms of their characteristics and attachment to the labour force . |
15 | Further information : Carers National Association Fact Sheet 1 , ‘ How to find out about gadgets and equipment to daily living ’ . |
16 | Political and church groups and sports- and businesspeople also launched campaigns to express solidarity with foreigners and opposition to violence . |
17 | The usual family gathering at the Andersons ' was held over until late January as Theresa had invited her parents and brothers and sister to her house for Boxing Day , and Pat said he thought it was a good idea . |
18 | In the space of a century , phrenology went from marble halls and respectability to fairground tents and a quick sixpenny character analysis for granddad . |
19 | Postal addresses and index to post code directories . |
20 | 1 Closing date for entries and address to which entries should be sent . |
21 | Unlike existing immigration criteria , wealth will not be a factor , though seniority , British ties and usefulness to Hong Kong will . |
22 | The government also undertook to privatize state-owned hotels and to tax casinos , and would offer tax concessions and access to funds from the Bahamas Development Bank to encourage investment and boost manufacturing and the small-business sector . |
23 | Support for anti-poaching projects , protection of endangered species , management of wildlife reserves and opposition to the resumption of commercial whaling will continue . |
24 | On the right-hand side try to match your own qualifications , strengths and experience to the requirements . |
25 | Vary tactics and approach to enforcement duties to obtain maximum return from each situation . |
26 | Fortunately , the expertise of bankers and the compliance of most traders with agreed international procedures keeps disputes and nonpayment to a minimum . |
27 | Financial intermediaries such as banks and insurance companies , acquire direct claims on deficit units and issue to the public their own secondary claims to finance such acquisitions . |
28 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
29 | Walter now restricts his hobbies and sport to country walks , watching rugby , music , gardening and the cultivation of fuchsias . |
30 | The irony has often been noted that the imposition of legislature controls actually resulted in a dramatic increase in immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , as people attempted to beat the ban , this severed the previously close connections between employment opportunities and migration to Britain . |