Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what was apparently a reference to conservatives within the FLN , he had been highly critical of Algeria 's " political class " in an interview in El País of Dec. 29 . |
| 2 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 3 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 4 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |
| 5 | Although , as he points out , ‘ it really is n't new at all , just a return to traditions of healing that have been accepted for millenniums ’ . |
| 6 | Nazism is not just a threat to homosexuals , ‘ Lefties ’ and racial minorities , but the very concepts of democracy and freedom and those who believe in them . |
| 7 | On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation . |
| 8 | It must be total , he admonished , ‘ not just a coming to terms with the enemy ’ . |
| 9 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 10 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 11 | ‘ No , perhaps not , since it 's usually a response to things lost , or ended , and you still have Jones , ’ Luke conceded cynically . |
| 12 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 13 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |
| 15 | When Mr. Gosling picked the apples for me last month he left a few on the top branches he could n't reach , and they 're rather a temptation to boys , I expect . |
| 16 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 17 | MATURITY IS : Recognising that it is not a commitment to self which brings happiness in life but rather a commitment to others . |
| 18 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 19 | They were also a response to demands for a form of participation . |
| 20 | This promoted the HCIMA to produce an Education Brief and also A Guide to NVQs . |
| 21 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 22 | The 1987 Act is therefore partly a response to lessons learnt at that time . |
| 23 | Probably a reaction to toxins our bodies had n't encountered before . |
| 24 | The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) . |
| 25 | There was now a deadline to discussions about full employment — the government had to come forward with a policy before Beveridge . |
| 26 | Similarly , in 1888 a Southern Province mudaliyar attributed a fall in the crime to a magistrate ‘ who was really a terror to evil-doers ’ . |
| 27 | Such is the dearth of tutor presence on wards , that the arrival of someone from ‘ the school ’ is often a surprise to students and clinical staff alike . |
| 28 | A fall in rates is often a signal to investors of better times ahead , raising expected returns , shifting the MEI curve to the right , and raising investment ( and conversely ) . |
| 29 | They noted that " inflation expectations had eased considerably and , with the exception of some countries [ reportedly a reference to threats of industrial action in Germany ] wage and price pressures have been declining markedly . " |
| 30 | For instance , even a bequest to persons ‘ born previously to the date of my will ’ will include a person born within due time afterwards . |