Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of schoolchildren , aged four to nine , wrote to European leaders and royals asking for secrets to successful cookery for a recipe book . |
| 2 | The pupils , aged four to nine , wrote to European leaders and royals asking for secrets to successful cookery for a recipe book . |
| 3 | First , even the theoretical basic requirements of the system , for policies to further accumulation and to guarantee political legitimacy , are mutually and internally contradictory . |
| 4 | As a gesture of good faith , Bush guaranteed a credit of US$1,500 million for improvements to Mexican oil installations which would be necessary to provide additional supplies of Mexican crude oil to the USA in the event of war in the Middle East . |
| 5 | ( Hart ( 1988 ) provides a good introduction for non-specialists to this field ; see also : Enslow ( 1989 ) ; Dawson ( 1988 ) . ) |
| 6 | The Senate voted by 53 to 45 on July 17 to increase the annual pay of senators by $23,200 to $125,100 in exchange for the prohibition of its members accepting honoraria for speeches to special interest groups . |
| 7 | However , some housing departments , who had no specific policy on or budget for adaptations to existing council properties , clearly had very little knowledge of the work of occupational therapists . |
| 8 | Rochdale has built all new housing to mobility standard since 1980 , a significant number to wheelchair standard and has an expanding capital budget for adaptations to existing stock . |
| 9 | Brentford are also through thanks to on-loan keeper Gerry Peyton . |
| 10 | They saw adult education as an important primary resource for all those local people and professionals involved in the search for solutions to local community problems . |
| 11 | Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar when she claimed 88 per cent of claimants would be better off after changes to social security benefits introduced in April 1988 . |
| 12 | The raid took 10 weeks to plan after complaints to local beat officers . |
| 13 | Parish councillor and qualified stonemason Jim Wingham has been given approval by Cleveland County Council to provide a roadside welcome sign for visitors to Victorian Saltburn . |
| 14 | Set back in a quiet spot off the beaten track , the Hotel Olivi is close to the Grottoes of Catullus which are a must for visitors to this region . |
| 15 | It is unclear what the relation of error correction models is to models which explain revision of behaviour as responses to new information . |
| 16 | Left-wing militancy a–d more especially the left-ward lurch of the Socialist Party are thus seen as responses to right-wing intransigence , and the right as bearing the main responsibility for political breakdown , ever-worsening social conflict , and ultimately , civil war . |
| 17 | Several recent discussions of social policy have suggested that welfare policies are promulgated not from humanitarian concerns to meet need but as responses to social unrest . |
| 18 | In Part Two , it will be referred to in a similar way ; or instance , insider approaches to evaluation will be discussed as a mode of professional accountability , and inspections and local authority schemes will be examined as responses to contractual accountability demands . |
| 19 | During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race . |
| 20 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 21 | We have put forward a number of proposals to this effect in the political union intergovernmental conference . |
| 22 | Adapting the ordering of signs to Swedish word order is supposed to result in the pupils learning Swedish with greater ease . |
| 23 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 24 | The second column also shows that there is a wide variation between regions in the proportion of exports to foreign debt . |
| 25 | ‘ In that case , a bank messenger was taking a Gladstone bag full of sovereigns to another branch . |
| 26 | In a longer perspective , the contribution of Marxists to literary criticism is considerable . |
| 27 | There are extraordinary disparities between one area of the country and another in the commitment of funds to mental health services from local authorities and health authorities . |
| 28 | What is more , the Bank of England need no longer be the immediate source of funds to individual discount houses . |
| 29 | The councils have the power to attach terms and conditions to the provision of funds to any institution . |
| 30 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |