Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary reason for admission to ICU is chosen from a number of diagnoses . |
| 2 | Human beings generally consider life to function best when that ratio of male to female is relatively even . |
| 3 | The most important aspect of the work of SERRL to date is centred on the building and maintenance of an integrated settlement and infrastructure database for South East England ( Shepherd and Conway , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 5 | The relative proportion of silt to clay is remarkably uniform at about six to four ; it is the sand fraction that varies most . |
| 6 | It is now generally agreed that some kind of predisposition to schizophrenia is inherited , but that certain environmental factors will increase the likelihood that the disorder will occur and recur . |
| 7 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 8 | A third form of assistance to industry is the improvement of information . |
| 9 | A recent unusual match of consultant to client is the work carried out by the University 's Centre for Field Archaeology for Shell Chemicals UK Ltd . |
| 10 | But if the application of law to fact is not clear , you need not state a definite opinion or even ‘ submit ’ that the position is so-and-so . |
| 11 | The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro . |
| 12 | The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming . |
| 13 | Social work with young people in the transition to or in search of alternatives to employment is one specific task singled out ( s. 13 ) and makes reference to material provision ( accommodation ) as well as to counselling and advice . |
| 14 | He is aware that as his Property Services Department ( Grounds Maintenance ) has successfully bid for the Lincolnshire contract , his quality of service to school is a key element in our future preparedness to pay our bill . |
| 15 | How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria . |
| 16 | Another reason why the relation of demes to city is now seen differently , and why demes now seem more important , is simply that more archaeological work has been done on deme sites . |
| 17 | This again raises the temperature and pressure , until the thermonuclear burning of helium to carbon is ignited . |
| 18 | The ratio of sample to population is normally expressed as a fraction , known as the sampling fraction . |
| 19 | In response to this line of thought it may well be pointed out that the subordination of woman to man is depicted in scripture as having resulted from the fall . |
| 20 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 21 | And this process of commitment to literacy is best and most easily established early in life . |
| 22 | At the same time , lack of access to housing is forcing many local people to move away . |
| 23 | Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity . |
| 24 | Across all age groups the ratio of incidence to mortality is two to one . |
| 25 | In composites where the fibres are bidirectional or in the form of a chopped mat , the ratio of modulus to density is reduced , but the composite is stiff in all directions . |
| 26 | Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous . |
| 27 | The relation of postmodernism to modernism is , in other words , a complex continuity which , in America at least , can be dated with comparative precision . |
| 28 | The reintroduction of pupils to school is therefore given less emphasis in the Delphi Centre . |
| 29 | Of major significance in the relationship of self-concept to non-violence is the fact that this value system and the ideals of self which it informs are shared by both men and women ( I owe the recognition of this significance to Joanna Overing 's paper in this volume ) . |
| 30 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |