Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This forcible intervention by the Western powers in relations between East Asian nations highlights the degree to which East Asia and Western power play were related , and the pivotal position of Japan in this interdependence . |
| 2 | The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family . |
| 3 | The initial stock of real balances fixes the function to the left of the notional demand for labour function . |
| 4 | A woman from the American record company who looks oddly like Clint from fringe to feet declares the gig to be the best she 's seen from a new visiting British band . |
| 5 | Newco can claim writing down allowances for plant and machinery of 25% on a reducing balance basis over whatever number of years reduces the expenditure to a negligible amount . |
| 6 | Success in Bar Finals entitles the candidate to admission to the Bar , known as call to the Bar provided that they have completed the quaint requirement of eating the necessary number of dinners in their Inn . |
| 7 | Patrick O'Brian 's long sequence of sea-adventures gives the lie to the dogma that the genre does not allow for any real development of character . |
| 8 | The pavements are slick with rain , the twisted array of neon lights turns the gutters to gold , the streets are black with people who do n't have any particular place to go , and outside a cheap bar a drunken woman is having a stand-up domestic with her low-life escort . |
| 9 | Other evidence has suggested that a double influence operates in the development of leukaemia at ages 5–24 , part early , the other late ( possibly analogous to the way that early and persisting pestivirus infection in cattle alters the response to later infection by a different strain . |
| 10 | Consideration of the γγ production of positrons requires the source to be very compact , 5,000km , consistent with the observations of Sgr A. One possible source of the positrons is pair production in intense bremsstrahlung emission from 10 7 K gas around an accreting black hole with mass 10 3 M and ; ( ref. 81 ) . |
| 11 | Together with his other writings , its profound influence on the Romantic poets illustrates the depth to which scientific ideas , which today might remain obscure , could swiftly penetrate literary and artistic thinking . |
| 12 | The lack of any redeeming features causes the book to be somewhat unconvincing . |
| 13 | In amongst Esso petroleum storage tanks on the north side of the river a high Cleopatra Needle by old fortifications marks the memorial to Henry Bell whose Comet , the first commercially successful steam ship , was launched on the Clyde in 1812 . |
| 14 | Plus a recess above the nibs allows the tiles to be stacked virtually flat . |
| 15 | The ABI 's new groupings increases the categories to 20 and gives diesels drivers a much a fairer deal . |
| 16 | But none of those famous victories matches the significance to Welsh rugby , so long in the doldrums , of this scintillating triumph . |
| 17 | The success of our manufactured exports gives the lie to the Opposition 's portrayal of manufacturing . |
| 18 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
| 19 | Anne Buckland of Environmental Products explains the technology to a customer while F John Smith stands by the ART 700 exhibit . |
| 20 | In tonight 's The Tuesday Special , Gloucestershire 's Chief of Police condemns the approach to dealing with young offenders , which relies so heavily on giving them cautions . |
| 21 | At various points Pemell 's book on children directs the reader to fuller discussions contained in his earlier publications . |
| 22 | In the evening the firm 's fleet of vehicles moves the parcels to a central sorting office in Birmingham . |
| 23 | Bourdieu writes , for example , that the habitus in traditional societies enables the agent to ‘ produce all the practices and judgments of honour ’ . |
| 24 | One or more of these processes forms a long conducting fibre or axon ( Narahashi , 1963 ) ending in a group of fine , branching fibrils ; the number of axons enables the neuron to be classified as uni- , bi- or multipolar . |
| 25 | A further half mile or so past fields brings the train to Birkhill Station . |
| 26 | The nature of these policies determines the risks to which long-term funds are exposed . |
| 27 | The wide gulf between these approaches reveals the extent to which the relation between theological and historical study became problematical through the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Just a merest glimpse at the trade papers reveals the extent to which from the start the movies had to fight against their own impulses and their own logic . |
| 29 | With low ratio , four-wheel-drive selected in preference to the rear wheel drive high ratios recommended for road use , a combination of brute force and good tyres allows the vehicle to be forced over terrain where few would attempt to walk . |
| 30 | Knowing what to expect , as well as what not to expect , from colleagues enables the manager to head-off potential tensions or even group breakdown . |