Example sentences of "[conj] to [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are now available by mail or to personal callers at the show society 's Godalming office . |
| 2 | In 1985 a further Act was passed which went beyond controlling the operation of existing local governments , when the Greater London Council ( created in 1965 ) and metropolitan county councils ( created in 1974 ) were abolished and their responsibilities transferred either to borough/district councils or to joint authorities of various types . |
| 3 | I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop . |
| 4 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 5 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 6 | You think you 're fit , but not to the extent of athletes or to aerobic teachers of a high calibre , erm but I think we erm although we joke about , you can see on the pain in the faces that it does hurt and it does do us good . |
| 7 | A communication is protected if it is made to further a common interest — a circular published to shareholders in a company , or to fellow members of a trade union , or an inter-office memorandum . |
| 8 | Michael Wittet will be remembered by many as a man of wide knowledge and active mind , of thoughtful care and concern , whether to friends and neighbours , colleagues and staff , or to fellow ex-prisoners of war . |
| 9 | The quality of an individual 's performance will certainly be reduced when job progress is frustrated either owing to poor internal organisation and resources or to external factors beyond the surveyor 's control . |
| 10 | As for the Blue Skies criteria , we may imagine that a better understanding of photosynthesis either may lead to , say , better synthetic devices ; or to new insights into control engineering , leading say to advances in the control of complex fermentation processes . |
| 11 | Here it is salutary to recall Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the ‘ perilous ease ’ with which politics quickly assumes positions that provide intellectual guarantees rather than specific analyses of particular relations or transformations ; he reacts in the same way to political analogies , and correspondences , or to hasty links with current political practices . |
| 12 | CONDITIONS OF ENROLMENT ONTO A PROGRAMME OF STUDY LEADING TO THE AWARD OF A PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE OR TO INDIVIDUAL AREAS OF STUDY WITHIN THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME . |
| 13 | CONDITIONS OF ENROLMENT ONTO A PROGRAMME OF STUDY LEADING TO THE AWARD OF A PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA OR TO INDIVIDUAL AREAS OF STUDY OR ELEMENTS WITHIN THE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME . |
| 14 | This is partly , no doubt , because teacher education in language is mostly tied to the teaching of particular languages , or to other disciplines like psychology or sociology where language is not the central focus . |
| 15 | Others have moved from the older , nineteenth century houses of the twilight zones around the centres of the towns to new estates on the edges of the towns or to other towns in the region . |
| 16 | The collection is kept in pots so the plants can be moved about — to the Chelsea Flower show or to other nurseries for crossing . |
| 17 | Financial assistance would be given to householders to enable them to change to using smokeless coal or to other forms of heating when the ban became effective , and towards the costs of relocation of those companies with good environmental records and to encourage investment in new processes . |
| 18 | More usually , this is done by attaching lights to the wrists or to other parts of the body , if the light is flashing at a known frequency the relative time of particular positions as well as the sequence can be measured . |
| 19 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 20 | In fact , one adherent of the New Cambridge School , Lord Kaldor ( 1980 ) , went so far as to say that there is no empirical support for a high PSBR leading either to substantial growth in money supply or to high rates of interest . |
| 21 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 22 | Nor do I see any support in earlier judgments which have been cited to us relating to the predecessors of section 236 or to comparable sections for such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 23 | Furthermore , the conclusions reached through therapeutic work with some patients can not be generalized to all mankind , or to human beings in very different cultural and social circumstances from those on whom the therapy was carried out . |
| 24 | It has not been possible to pass the disease on to animals or to human volunteers by inoculation of the organism . |
| 25 | Can we honestly assume that the way they are in school will be the way they relate to an employer , or to younger children in an adventure playground ? |
| 26 | Sociologists emphasise that what is ‘ common sense ’ or ‘ natural ’ may be by no means universal or eternal , but is frequently relative to particular societies or to particular periods in time . |
| 27 | From our unpublished data we conclude that TBP does not directly bind to internal pol III promoters ( or to cryptic TATA-sequences in the plasmid-vector ) . |
| 28 | Today most of the remaining fragments are confined to sheltered gorges or inaccessible crags or to some islands in inland lochs , the latter often displaying a wind-contoured profile . |
| 29 | Languages such as the above are called tone languages ; although to most speakers of European languages they may seem strange and exotic , such languages are in fact spoken by a very large proportion of the world 's population . |
| 30 | But it led to no official population policy , nor to real changes in government policy towards family support ( see Chapter 13 ) . |