Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public .
2 Two events helped lead to resolution of this puzzle .
3 International copyright arrangements institutionalise peripherality and make it more expensive to obtain access to knowledge of all kinds .
4 Demy himself , looking dangerously ill , adds commentary to part of the film .
5 The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions .
6 FoE condemns Britain 's environment record , but says PM has pushed issue to top of world agenda Downing St plays down meeting with Porritt Praise and blame for ‘ green ’ Thatcher .
7 Others are in the political sphere : regional trade groupings such as the European Community remove barriers to movement of people , goods and services , and themselves develop extensive legislative or quasi-legislative powers .
8 Unlike the annual Environment White Papers , a sustainable development report need not give space to quality of life issues where there are no long term implications , such as local issues of litter , the nuisance from dogs , noise , etc .
9 then they never let me know , and as you know , er it , it costs money to sort of er , put a meal on
10 But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events .
11 In broad and generalised terms , visual defects give rise to loss of clear vision , loss of central vision , or loss of peripheral vision , the visual field may be reduced or interrupted .
12 This has produced savings to date of £24m of which £13m related to manpower .
13 After the general election , will my hon. Friend give priority to consideration of rather more remote areas , like Ilfracombe , Barnstaple or South Molton that have rural or coastal connections ?
14 However , the internationally recognized rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful association fully encompass peaceful actions such as those carried out by Abie Nathan .
15 However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax .
16 What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’
17 In the later meetings , and after the rebuff by the Council , opinion moved towards the creation of a CNAA ‘ Committee for Institutions ’ , as Hugh Glanville , Registrar for Institutional Reviews , proposed it in January 1979 — a Committee to have oversight of review visits , to coordinate institutional reviews and course validation , to give priority to consideration of the reports of visits , and to monitor the ‘ interplay between the internal procedures of the institutions and the Council 's procedures for the approval of courses ’ .
18 Here the stress is on experience ( on observation and testing ) as the only way to justify claims to knowledge of the world , and hence on methods of verification as the key to the meaning of scientific statements .
19 BUSINESS Expansion Schemes share issues may appeal to those who can forego access to part of their savings for five years in return for sheltering these funds from tax .
20 Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris .
21 On 30th September 1990 the group acquired Model Layout Ltd for £2,530,000 paid by cash , giving rise to goodwill of £330,000 .
22 Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups .
23 As of mid-September , four men laid claim to leadership of the country — Taylor , Johnson , Nimley and Amos Sawyer .
24 Tonight 's game against Turkey will not have any influence on USA'94 : we are alreay qualified — but a win might take Norway to top of the FIFA ranking and i guess all the players want to show that they can perform even in such a ‘ meaningless ’ game .
25 Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate .
26 The Conservative Conference : Thatcher lays claim to torch of freedom : Vision of Eastern Europe inspired by Tory ‘ turning point in history ’ stirs outburst of wild adulation
27 $2.3 million overspend leads to postponement of major Mondrian show
28 The Social Security Pensions Act 1975 included an ‘ equal access ’ clause which entitles women to membership of an occupational scheme where this is available to men in the same category of employment .
29 This is defined as : A state of visual acceptability , related to the absence of dirt , where the level of dirt remaining neither significantly impairs nor prevents the function of the area or equipment in it nor gives rise to contamination of food .
30 Although I now believe he over-estimated the importance of the part played by observation , his constant emphasis upon the personal , the sensuous and the experiential ( a world illuminated by the child 's sensitivity and never dictated by the teacher ) gave rise to work of much greater intensity , and much more varied in imagery , than the ultimately stereotyped products of Basic Design .
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