Example sentences of "[det] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major questions are clearly interrelated in that the answer to any one will precondition the response to the others . |
| 2 | The bad news is that the posting to Estudiantes de la Plata . |
| 3 | Is this the land to which the Palestinians of the diaspora wish to return ? |
| 4 | In addition to all this the Bill to be introduced into the House of Lords pays no real attention to the rights of conscience of doctors , nurses or anyone else involved in the care of the sick . |
| 5 | Together with his determination to encourage people to maximise their potential , he considers this the key to his success in reaching his present position as Assistant Operations Manager with Knowsley Contract Services . |
| 6 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
| 7 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 8 | ‘ All boxers were weighed in , but because there was no chance of getting through a 28bout programme at a workmen 's club in one night , we decided to take half the bouts to another venue two nights later . |
| 9 | ‘ Can we abandon half the globe to the caprice of peoples still in their infancy … ? |
| 10 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England , tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest 's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north . |
| 11 | THE WORLD 'S highest auction price for a work of art , the £30.2m paid for Van Gogh 's Irises , was achieved after the auctioneers , Sotheby 's , had advanced half the money to Alan Bond , the Australian entrepreneur , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 12 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 13 | Over half the answers to the ‘ best ’ aspects question refer to what could be called the work dimension of the role , as do almost all the answers to the ‘ worst ’ aspects question — even though these questions do not specify housework , but permit answers relating to marriage , motherhood and home life generally . |
| 14 | We ca n't just reduce the struggles of half the population to a demand for money . |
| 15 | For those of you with stepchildren to consider , however , you may wish to opt for a common tenancy and leave half the house to them . |
| 16 | Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ? |
| 17 | As there is no way of knowing how many synonyms exist for any given home address , an unsuccessful search might require half the file to be scanned on average . |
| 18 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 19 | ‘ Now , : he said , ‘ Half the elephants to the eldest son , so take nine ; a third to the middle son , so take six — and a ninth to the youngest , take two . |
| 20 | In some HAs only half the referrals to district nursing services comes from GPs . |
| 21 | With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot . |
| 22 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 23 | For some the answer to this is the ethnic minorities that constitute a significant part of Romania 's population . |
| 24 | Erm then we said er another the train to such a place will be quarter of an hour late , we 're very sorry cos it 's held up , everything was standing outside the station , er they 're all held up with this fire at Banbury , was upsetting everything |
| 25 | The more detailed and final the design is before tender , the fewer the changes to the design which may be needed after the contract has been awarded . |
| 26 | If the data have been ordered into contigs then the positives should occur in overlapping runs ( Fig 3 ) , and inconsistencies in the data are immediately apparent by eye because all the hybridisations to each clone are visible , including those which do not fit well with the current order of clones and probes . |
| 27 | But while dealing with one of their biggest cases , the local branch of the RSPCA has still had to cope with all the day to day demands on their time . |
| 28 | He made an arrangement which , he claimed , would make him far richer than generals and admirals who led armies and fleets , a Trust Deed by which his assets were assigned to Trustees who made all the payments to creditors on the lines of that set up for Emma Hamilton . |
| 29 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 30 | Of all the obstacles to learning , perhaps the greatest is the way in which we approach practice . |