Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | This again raises the temperature and pressure , until the thermonuclear burning of helium to carbon is ignited . |
| 14 | The ratio of sample to population is normally expressed as a fraction , known as the sampling fraction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 17 | And this process of commitment to literacy is best and most easily established early in life . |
| 18 | At the same time , lack of access to housing is forcing many local people to move away . |
| 19 | Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity . |
| 20 | Across all age groups the ratio of incidence to mortality is two to one . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The relation of postmodernism to modernism is , in other words , a complex continuity which , in America at least , can be dated with comparative precision . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For most of the time this works imperfectly and simultaneous interpretation of BSL to English is frequently marked by the interpreter requesting repetition or further information from the deaf person . |
| 27 | The position with respect to anchoring is somewhat different , because it is a universal process . |
| 28 | The policy with respect to pay is to be about 7 percent above the national norm ( as IBM determines the norm among companies it considers comparable ) . ’ |
| 29 | They argue that ‘ … the local/central government relationship with respect to administration is … an example of the general principal/agent problem — how to provide necessarily decentralised ( to maximize information ) agents with incentives to pursue the central government principal 's objectives ’ ( p. ix ) . |
| 30 | The overall low significance correlation with adherence to programme is probably the unsurprising finding that projects which are technically successful at most stages tend to slip less than those which are not . |