Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool .
2 Let's not worry too much about claims to exclusivity where truth is concerned — perhaps these are best left until the next world !
3 Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) .
4 Unfortunately , we have little continuous idea of the quality or quantity of church life ; the bishops and local abbots occur in any records only as witnesses to charters and other documents .
5 Elefriends , the charity set up to help African elephants , is £8,000 better off thanks to Monsoon .
6 The Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarcto Miocardico ( GISSI-2 ) , its international extension , and the Third International Study of Infarct Survival ( ISIS-3 ) are large mortality trials that have provided reliable and consistent information on the risks and benefits of combined aspirin and subcutaneous heparin or aspirin alone as adjuncts to thrombolysis ( table I ) .
7 Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) .
8 The Humber was a very busy river and even before the large trawlers , eleven shrimp boats sailed out of Paull along with ferries to Hull and Lincolnshire .
9 After the defeat of the battle of Hastings the parish was given along with others to Odo , Bishop of Bayeux , half brother to William I , but at an assembly at Penenden Heath in 1076 , led by Lanfranc , Archbishop of Canterbury , the Manor was returned to the Church of St. Andrew , Rochester .
10 Along with orders to France and Scandinavia , exports make up 75 per cent of ANTA 's business .
11 When members of Congress returned to Washington , not only did the Senate Republicans stand firm a third time , but conservative and moderate Democrats were emboldened to seek further cuts in spending , together with modifications to Mr Clinton 's energy tax .
12 Good wishes cards for them both were signed by teachers present on the 21st and these were sent together with flowers to Mabel and Anna .
13 Good wishes cards for them both were signed by teachers present on the 21st and these were sent together with flowers to Mabel and Anna .
14 Theoretically at least , if tourism was to increase by £20,000 million , ( four-fold ) , and if holidays previously taken abroad were taken at home , the calculations justify the transfer of tax burden entirely from earnings to spending .
15 But , unlike houses which change as fashions do , swinging expensively from florals to stripes , the transformation will continue to be gradual — you could call it organic — and inexpensive , ‘ all done on air ’ , as Elizabeth Jane puts it .
16 Volkenstein ( 1959 ) criticized the theory , mainly on the grounds that it concentrates entirely on barriers to rotation , neglecting intermolecular cohesion , and that it is not applicable to low-molecular-weight polymers , which also form glasses .
17 I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats
18 And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English .
19 A hot bath , sex , a warm drink and alcohol also figured prominently as aids to somnolence .
20 Yet once that dominant interest existed , the option of directing available money away from consumers to producers was no longer real if the system were to grow sufficiently in good times , survive in bad .
21 The protein and vitamin-packed formula works by forming a protective barrier around your hair and is so easy to use : simply shampoo and rinse your hair with warm water , apply Intensive Conditioning Treatment evenly and massage through from roots to tips .
22 As the guests poured over in boats to Mr. Pocklington 's island , by invitation , their landing was saluted by a discharge of artillery .
23 Within these outflung arms , small icy glaciers nestle , rising steeply in places to passes , leading to other valleys and huts .
24 Well in fact it , it it has in fact gone full circle because through the nineteen fifties you went through to co-ops to collectives to communes which lasted through to nineteen seventy eight , the communes were then disbanded and you 're back , now , after reform which took very much system .
25 The White Hart Lane medical staff are working overtime on injuries to Paul Stewart , Vinny Samways and Steve Sedgley and striker Gordon Durie missed training yesterday with a chest complaint .
26 Good defending in the nick of time but still Leicester press Greyson and again Greyson headed away by Laws to Ormanroyd .
27 BR plans more through services to Worcester and Hereford and has forecast a thirty per cent increase in passengers .
28 The trade papers were always including references to experiments of this sort but it was obvious that these many initiatives came to very little .
29 This creeping destruction of workers ' rights has spread rapidly from journalists to printers , from tanker drivers to docks , telecom managers to mines , and lecturers to insurance staff .
30 Whatever may have happened before , wealth flowed decisively from parents to children in all households in Britain from then on .
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