Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 2 | The transactions just referred to of the executors , his assignees , in relation to the lease bind him , in my judgment , in a question with the plaintiff as if they had been carried out by himself . |
| 3 | In the pension scheme there are typically three groups of members , the existing pensioners er those people who are still working for the company , the employees and the third group of er members who work for the companies generally referred to as deferred members . |
| 4 | First , to develop the idea of the punning associations already referred to in relation to the term ultramarinos , there is the pleasing assonance between the name of this earthly Queen Mariana , and that of Maria , Queen of Heaven . |
| 5 | What other companies fancifully referred to as ‘ corporate public relations ’ had hardly been an issue at Virgin up till now . |
| 6 | In response to this threat , Irokawa argues , the ruling classes moved rapidly to reinforce the conventional norms still adhered to by the vast majority of the people , but in a way which removed any spontaneous content and value . |
| 7 | 15.1.2 neither completion of this Agreement nor publication of the Work will constitute or evidence any breach of any partnership or other contract or any breach of any contractual , fiduciary or other duty between the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company or any third party ; or give rise to any other liability on the part of the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company to any third party ; or give rise to any liability on the part of the Publisher to any third party . |
| 8 | 15.1.2 neither completion of this Agreement nor publication of the Work will constitute or evidence any breach of any partnership or other contract or any breach of any contractual , fiduciary or other duty between the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company or any third party ; or give rise to any other liability on the part of the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company to any third party ; or give rise to any liability on the part of the Publisher to any third party . |
| 9 | Apart from the applications already referred to in this section , filters that provide total rejection at some frequency are particularly useful for measuring distortion . |
| 10 | In many geomorphological histories there has been a propensity to ignore the most recent stages or time periods so that the Quaternary was often treated in less detail and the Holocene or last 10,000 years seldom referred to at all . |
| 11 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 12 | Fear of this happening is a prime reason for some religious people 's failure to relate to other people 's views ; they therefore take refuge in intransigent attitudes often referred to by other people as fundamentalist or extremist . |
| 13 | Among the most memorable of paintings in this manner is his group portrait of the Prince of Wales with his three sisters sometimes referred to as The music party ( illus.3 ) . |
| 14 | The amount of hot air likely to be generated over the 12 days could trigger off the kind of chain reaction that global warming scientists only refer to in hushed tones . |
| 15 | PageMaker defaults to providing ‘ Automatic ’ leading and that 's what many users always stick to on the assumption that PageMaker knows best . |
| 16 | This awareness was undoubtedly one of the elements promoting prostitution , which pious Victorians often referred to as ‘ the great social evil ’ . |
| 17 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 18 | As S4 Standard Grade and S5 Higher results are the ones usually referred to in national comparisons , the following facts may be of interest . |
| 19 | The pits close , leaving thousands without jobs in pit-head villages that they or their fathers once came to for work . |
| 20 | In a final , ironic comment on what commentators now referred to as ‘ the British disease ’ , television coverage of the national celebration was severely disrupted by a dispute over technicians ' pay . |