Example sentences of "[det] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
| 2 | The government attributes this to the improvements in efficiency achieved during the course of the country 's intensive reactor building programme . |
| 3 | Chemists initially make polyacetylene in the cis form , and convert this to the trans by heating it to 200°C in helium . |
| 4 | The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided . |
| 5 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 6 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 7 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 8 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 9 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 10 | Applying this to the realities of international law , the ethical positivist in the first place rejects the search for an intuited or reasoned ‘ natural law ’ on which to base international law , for he views law as a human creation to serve those human objectives which survive ethical criticism . |
| 11 | In one case to a small village in Leicestershire , in another to the outskirts of Peterborough , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 12 | Princess Margaret attached a balloon to her tiara , Prince Andrew tied another to the tails of his dinner jacket while royal bar staff dispensed a cocktail called ‘ A Long Slow Comfortable Screw up against the Throne ’ . |
| 13 | Boutros-Ghali 's proposals are directed as much to the citizens of member states as to their governments . |
| 14 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |
| 15 | I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves . |
| 16 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 17 | After contributing so much to the proceedings in the Finnish capital , and to the 30,000 words of the final act , Romania became one of its victims . |
| 18 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 19 | Therefore considerations of safety relate mainly to operational capability to handle chemicals safely and not so much to the characteristics of the product . |
| 20 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 21 | There is a growing relevance of these to the activities of our large public quoted companies . |
| 22 | We praise you for the way that you have assigned these to the craftsmen of all kinds who have been involved . |
| 23 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
| 24 | Whereas the line item approach bears no relation at all to the activities of the police force it is possible to identify various functions carried out by the police and thereby determine suitable programmes . |
| 25 | The closing part of this chapter will raise a number of these issues with a view to alerting us all to the realities against which aspirations have to be aligned , if not reconciled . |
| 26 | Instead , I shall seek to attempt to raise issues which relate above all to the relationships between |
| 27 | Courses for health visitors provided by the HVA are geared much more to the needs of that group , and these are discussed on pages 67–9 . |
| 28 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 29 | Archbishop Ælfric 's bequest to the king of a ship and sixty helmets and byrnies was a gift indeed , and when he gave a ship each to the men of Kent and Wiltshire he was perhaps being no less generous than in forgiving the people of Middlesex and Surrey the money which he had paid on their behalf , possibly as tribute . |
| 30 | Claiming that Tyacke has paid too much attention to the academic debates of the university teachers and too little to the realities of parochial life , he asserted that throughout the period from 1529 to 1640 the English church was in essence a monarchical church whose leaders were primarily concerned to maintain stability by restricting controversy . |