Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 2 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 3 | Miguel Trovoada , an independent opposition leader who had returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 [ see p. 37674 ] , was elected President on March 3 , 1991 . |
| 4 | I must offer my condolence to the families of the victims . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The tragedy which caused the deaths of six people at Sowerby Bridge brought tremendous grief to the families of those who died and was a tragedy to the community itself . ’ |
| 6 | The Smiths are acknowledged as writing with sensitivity , depth and intelligence and the suggestion that they are cashing in on a tragedy at the expense of causing grief to the relatives of its victims is absolutely untrue . |
| 7 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 8 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 9 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 10 | First August — a very welcome trip with the driver of the jeep to the bridges over the Orne . |
| 11 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , a slot on the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , a slot in the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters . |
| 14 | Now firmly established as the most prestigious forum for recognition of excellence and innovation in Irish music and radio , the Smithwicks Hot Press Awards provide a useful benchmark in the progress of established acts and an invaluable boost to the careers of newer acts . |
| 15 | The interests of commerce sometimes have a nationalistic tinge : in a recent decision a United States court referred in its reasoning to the interests in maintaining New York as a leading commercial centre . |
| 16 | He was not acting illegally , as no Act of Parliament gave statutory force to the terms of the Charter of 1844 . |
| 17 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 18 | This applied with special force to the discoveries of medical science ; life and death were no longer defined in terms of ‘ the Lord giveth , the Lord taketh away ’ . |
| 19 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 20 | On this the evidence is conflicting , some studies finding that take-overs were value-creating , others that target shareholder gains were more that off-set by losses to the shareholders of the acquiring companies . |
| 21 | Others ascribe the weakening of community consciousness to the failures of the churches to inculcate a sense of moral responsibility into the population , to the fashion for ‘ permissiveness ’ in education in the 1960s and 1970s which undermined respect for authority , and to the failures of parents to control their children . |
| 22 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 23 | ‘ If I die abroad in exile , let my body rest in a temporary grave until my mortal remains be transferred to our dear homeland , ’ said the Montenegrin President , Branko Kostic , reading the royal will and testament to the crowds in Cetinje Square , who carried flags and portraits of Nicholas and his queen , Milena . |
| 24 | JESUS CHRIST ! ’ when he should n't feasibly be capable of breathing — a testament to the levels of punishment Sugar inflict upon themselves , at the very least . |
| 25 | This monument is a worthy testament to the men of the RCAF , who flew from Croft . |
| 26 | The two published a number of works together and , after Moseley 's death in 1661 , Herringman purchased from Moseley 's estate copyrights to the poems of Abraham Cowley , Richard Crashaw , Sir John Denham , John Donne , Sir John Suckling , and Edmund Waller [ qq.v. ] , as well as some of the plays of Ben Jonson and Sir William Davenant [ qq.v . ] . |
| 27 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 28 | Casanare 's Governor Oscar Wilches , speaking on behalf of his region , extended his congratulations , gratitude , and appreciation to the partners for the inauguration of the works at the facilities . |
| 29 | From now on you will listen with increased appreciation to the speeches of others . |
| 30 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |