Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the celebrated case Wilson v Rickett Cockerell and Co Ltd [ 1954 ] 1 QB 598 , the Court of Appeal held the seller liable for damage to property caused by a detonator which was included in a consignment of Coalite . |
| 2 | The necessity for submission to greatness had now come to be placed in stark opposition to a scholarly pluralism . |
| 3 | A high standard of achievement qualifies students to apply for entry to postgraduate taught courses and research studies . |
| 4 | This should be conducted soon after admission to hospital to assess the effect of commonly consumed alcoholic beverages on gastrin release and gastric acid secretion and the results should be compared with gastric histology . |
| 5 | A recent study on patients who were selected because of changes in warning symptoms associated with the change of insulin species found no differences between responses to hypoglycaemia induced by porcine or human insulin . |
| 6 | The return of Churchill to office threatened to make matters worse . |
| 7 | After a period of exposure to grazing one can then test for the frequency of the various types of damage to clover leaves with the different genotypes and afterwards reconfirm the cyanogenic or acyanogenic status of the plant ( Fig. 16.7 ) . |
| 8 | It was held that the effect of the clause was to throw onto the employer the risk of damage caused by fire , so that the contractor was not liable even for a fire caused by the negligence of its employees ( and despite the presence of a clause under which the contractor undertook to indemnify the employer against losses in respect of damage to property caused by the negligence of the contractor 's employees , which was held to be qualified by the clause dealing with fire insurance ) . |
| 9 | in respect of damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the person claiming to be indemnified under this Section |
| 10 | Again Mr Lewis explained : ‘ We have converted one locomotives and rake of coaches to air braking and we plan to equip the whole fleet with the system . |
| 11 | The utility of labour to capital requires the fragmentation of organizational tasks into routine , repetitive , uncreative and degrading work which then has to be managed , organized and co-ordinated by hierarchy and authority . |
| 12 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 13 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 14 | Its high ratio of carbon to hydrogen gives less heat and more carbon dioxide than oil and gas ; it burns well only in large elaborate furnaces ; it produces ash and sulphur dioxide . |
| 15 | Direct participation by the state in the allocation of savings to industry has been important in both qualitative and quantitative senses . |
| 16 | FROM the wrong kind of snow to unforeseen leaves blocking railway lines , Britain 's transport firms are fast getting a reputation for original excuses . |
| 17 | The significance of attitude to work has been highlighted by numerous studies . |
| 18 | A relationship of licensee to licenser has now been replaced by technical cooperation between partners : Westinghouse ; and the CEA , EDF. and Framatome . |
| 19 | Among specific proposals are the introduction of internationally-traded " permits to pollute " , a plan for which is currently being prepared by the UN Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , and the payment by industrialized countries of compensation to rainforest states in recognition of the global " carbon absorption services " performed by their trees . |
| 20 | A supervision order allows for close observation but requires evidence of deterioration before action can be taken in the form of recall to hospital to restart treatment . |
| 21 | The ratio of the consumption of wood to steel varies considerably between different countries but it is not necessarily an index of the degree of industrialization or of technological advancement . |
| 22 | Of vital importance is the temporary conversion of oxygen to ozone to create the ozone layer , which in turn protects us from too much radiation . |
| 23 | It analyses the problem of marketing to multi-individual buying structures , and concludes by looking at the applications of industrial purchase behaviour models . |
| 24 | In 1792 , Carey by now the pastor of the Harvey Lane Church in Leicester , was persuaded to publish his pamphlet entitled ’ An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Lost ’ . |
| 25 | Lack of attention to detail erodes customer confidence and profit |
| 26 | The first is to show the level of attention to detail required to make the approach work . |
| 27 | And the assimilation of holism to determinism leaves holists in an equally unpalatable position . |
| 28 | The whole question of eye care and hygiene and the use and proper maintenance of aids to vision needs to be included and discussed in the health education curriculum . |
| 29 | As Repetto ( 1988a ) has discussed , the continued availability of subsidies for conversion of forest to pasture makes it more economic for the investor to clear further forest than to purchase fertiliser or control weeds in existing pasture . |
| 30 | Though his tone was less strident , as one might expect from such a diffident traveller , Colin Thubron 's message to Sunday Telegraph readers was as plain : ‘ In any biography the relationship of author to subject forms a haunting subtext , and that of Molly Izzard to Freya Stark remains a question-mark to the book 's end . |