Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 2 | The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 . |
| 3 | Unlike so many beginners to Koi-keeping , Ken 's first pond was right on the button in terms of size , practicality and ease of maintenance . |
| 4 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 5 | The pity is that Mr Eysenck leaves so many hostages to fortune . |
| 6 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 7 | In April and May 1988 , having left the initiative over inland offensives for so many years to Iran , the Iraqis launched two swift attacks . |
| 8 | Virginia Woolf was asked once why she stayed married for so many years to Leonard , a man most of her colleagues found to be her intellectual inferior . |
| 9 | With so many weapons to hand , some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives . |
| 10 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 11 | Handing over these responsibilities to others is therefore sometimes rather threatening to one 's ego . |
| 12 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 13 | Progress does not have a financial stake in Object Design as reported ( UX No 420 ) — confusion seems to have arisen over a plan under which Progress may take over all rights to Object Access . |
| 14 | These were not all strangers to Robert : four had previously served aboard the Orynthia , including the second mate , William Tilson , nine years his senior . |
| 15 | The way forward will be different for different people , but not all solutions to hearing loss lie solely in the realm of acquired skills and applied technology . |
| 16 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 17 | The man rattled off some instructions to Franco who retreated to the end of the bar and started hunting through the bottles on a particularly high shelf . |
| 18 | Changing print technology will simply serve to reduce further these barriers to entry , making even lower print runs economically viable . |
| 19 | See how we dressed up some visitors to Clothes Show Live |
| 20 | Tozer travelled after the pioneer journeys of W. M. Leake [ q.v. ] in Greece and Macedonia , and W. J. Hamilton [ q.v. ] in Asia Minor had opened up these countries to archaeologists , and his main interest was not in the discovery of archaeological material but in physical and human geography . |
| 21 | Practically all payments to OPEC countries are made in dollars , because this is the traditional means of payment . |
| 22 | Pagans were as much atheists to Christians as Christians were atheists to pagans . |
| 23 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 24 | Bring out all needles to HP and look at them . |
| 25 | There are as many ways to freedom as there are people , because each heart has its own journey , and each awareness has its own experience . |
| 26 | Christ is the only way to God , but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to him . |
| 27 | Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 . |
| 28 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 29 | So there are n't any plans to duet with Wendy James ? |
| 30 | As a matter of law , it is arguable that a plaintiff who announces before his case that he will pass on any damages to charity is not entitled to anything except costs if he wins . |