Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report , originally prepared last year by the government 's National Audit Office as a quick swot of the services offered by London 's top galleries and museums , has just been circulated as a final draft ; it is due for submission to Parliament shortly . |
| 2 | International markets , the EC and the New European Economic Area in particular , are seen by many as key expansion areas , and Society efforts to remove regulations restricting the rights of solicitors to practice abroad continued . |
| 3 | [ 13 ] showed that although the dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is completely described by a single exponential , the time constant varies according to the starting ratio of drug to DNA so that the dissociation becomes slower at higher occupancy . |
| 4 | After 300 yds , by electricity post , cross neck of field to stile ahead . |
| 5 | Critics of opponents to development frequently accuse them of being blinded by nostalgia and motivated by personal vested interest . |
| 6 | Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position . |
| 7 | Denton has classified the various forms of aid to industry under three headings : general incentives provided under various programmes to all industrial firms in all parts of the country ; industrial restructuring which again is universal in scope and geographical area and which is intended to encourage industrial efficiency ; and regional aid which is limited to firms in the deprived regions of the country . |
| 8 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 9 | Lack of attention to detail below |
| 10 | Its stylistic complexity was attributed by John of Salisbury to vanity rather than subtlety . |
| 11 | 8.10.4 Attractions of delay to party ultimately liable |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll take a glass of water to bed later , but that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | Re M is important as it clarifies the law on privilege and social work records but it is important to consider it within the wider context of access to information generally . |
| 14 | By introduction of glass , he wrote , relation of background to foreground radically altered . |
| 15 | The sale of important Attic vases on 28 April is one of the last major twentieth-century collections in private hands of sixth- to fifth-century BC vases likely to be dispersed . |
| 16 | That might be so in the case of other illness or disaster but in addictive disease total commitment regardless of cost to self actually works against recovery . |
| 17 | 8.16.2 Interpreted to give benefit of doubt to party adversely |
| 18 | Much of what has been said with reference to TV also applies to radio . |
| 19 | Let us accept the shifting of taste , and let us show our faith in the Great Tradition by teaching as much as possible of the literature we admire , without worrying too much about canons and with attention to variety rather than moral unity . |
| 20 | If these are painted black , bees orientate their dances with respect to gravity even in bright light . |
| 21 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
| 22 | When development is used in the literature on children 's language it usually implies acknowledgement of processes over and above learning ( for example , Piaget 1970 ) and an underlying continuity with respect to earlier-occurring relatively simple abilities and later , more complex abilities . |
| 23 | Its huge bulk extends as an elevated ridge declining to valley level at Dentdale in the north and Ingleton in the south , a distance of eight miles : it is an upthrust of barren ground with pretensions to attractiveness only at the extremities . |
| 24 | The excursion as described from Thun via Heiligenschwendi to Merligen above is the most straightforward route for making acquaintance with a most attractive pre-alpine landscape with a very favoured southern exposure . |
| 25 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 26 | For instance , in the cultural and moral area the most marked changes have occurred in family life ; in the role of , and relationship between , the sexes ; in the position of women ; in the attitude to established morality and tradition and in attitudes to authority generally . |
| 27 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 28 | The mammalian hippocampus was already a very well understood structure ; its neural connections , input and output pathways were clearly mapped and easily identifiable from preparation to preparation even if its individual neurons were not as directly recognizable as are those of Aplysia . |
| 29 | This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion . |
| 30 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |