Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
2 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
3 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
4 | In most of Spain , especially in the demoralized countryside , the strike quickly collapsed thanks to ill-preparedness , lack of resolution and determined government action . |
5 | Deep dish , frozen multi-portions have always presented difficulties to microwave regeneration as all too often edge burning occurs , before the centre is up to corret temperature . |
6 | The reopening of foreign contacts with the United States and the imperialist powers of Europe rapidly brought matters to crisis point . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Unix System Laboratories Inc and the Santa Cruz Operation Inc have both bought licences to Sun Microsystems Inc 's ONC+ for inclusion in UnixWare , as part of their commitment to COSE . |
9 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
10 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
11 | More than 30 councils have now made moves to kerb hunting . |
12 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
13 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
14 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
15 | The government 's refusal fully to implement the Disabled Person 's ( Services , Consultation and Representation ) Act 1986 leaves users dependent on the good practice of service providers , without clear cut rights to assessment or explanation when services are not provided . |
16 | 94% regularly directed students to library resources |
17 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
18 | In return for the support of the nominally social democratic National Progressive Revolutionary Party ( Panpra ) , which commanded a key block of votes in the Chamber , Bazin gave the party two Cabinet posts and agreed to restore all locally elected officials to office , including Evans Paul , an outspoken critic of the military and the FNCD mayor of Port-au Prince . |
19 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
20 | The forward- facing electors without our campaign exp expertise , back-up and money will not dissolve any deeply held if only recently announced objections to union association , for we all know what 's likely to happen at the party conference in October if the brakes are not applied now . |