Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan hosts Ramsar amid threats to wetlands |
| 2 | It 's a practical guide to theatre , which subtly extends the eunuchs-in-the-harem sneer about critics to directors and authors . |
| 3 | Many old attitudes act as constraints to improvement and must change . |
| 4 | There has been a breaking down of divisions both between internally and externally generated information and the distinct professional disciplines which act as handmaidens to information . |
| 5 | Men set agendas and act as gate-keepers to knowledge . |
| 6 | They range from carvings to paintings and sculpture . |
| 7 | Examples range from efforts to structure sentencing decisions through legislative criteria ( for example , Criminal Justice Acts 1982 and 1988 ) to the far-reaching Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 8 | Colleagues describe Brig Ramsey as a formidable operator who will stand no nonsense from the servicemen under her command — they range from Paras to dentists . |
| 9 | They range from earthquakes to cooling systems . |
| 10 | They range from weddings to funerals and student balls to wedding anniversaries . |
| 11 | Excursions : These range from trips to Verona and the beautiful city of Venice , to a trip through the breathtaking scenery of the Dolomites . |
| 12 | With regard to the proposals set out in your finalised business plan , we will make recommendations as to the type and source of funds , effect appropriate introductions through our extensive network of funding source contacts ( including venture capital and banking sources ) and advise and support on presentations to funding sources . |
| 13 | Thirty is when you decide it 's not on that your hubby has got time to watch the football — or the polo — and have a drink with the lads while you run from children to job to domestic chores like some demented nursemaid on speed . |
| 14 | The manufacturing side , however , suffered a near-two thirds drop in profits to £2½m . |
| 15 | Manufacturers now look beyond houses to shops , hotels , offices and industrial sites . |
| 16 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 17 | Go through woods to Dunwich . |
| 18 | I was therefore delighted to read in chapter three that the author , talking about oversimplified reasoning in music says , ‘ … . it does not explain why I respond with goose-pimples to Bach 's Kyrie every time I listen to it . ’ |
| 19 | When we turn from LETTERS to Sabbatical ( 1982 ) , the latter seems almost to have been written to put into practice the theoretical position laid down in ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ . |
| 20 | If we now turn from atheists to theists , we find that the forms of theism can be categorised in a similar manner . |
| 21 | The same strictures apply in spades to Unix , an environment that in its conception is quite unsuitable as a production operating system : its priorities were easy sharing of files and code and interaction between members of development teams and between teams working on different projects , where the priority for a business operating system is security and protection . |
| 22 | Here vehicle access to the dwellings is via culs-de-sac which end in forecourts to garages , with houses directly adjacent or reached along short footpaths . |
| 23 | I believe it 's a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs who go on jaunts to places of historical interest , or hold symposia , etc . |
| 24 | Northward I wander in dreams to Yun , Southward I search for Yuye … |
| 25 | A few chambers have set a shining example by stating that they will grant pupillages ( some of them accompanied by monetary awards ) by open competition ; if you wish to apply , write for details to John Stuart Colyer Esq . |
| 26 | The benefits are free prescriptions , optical and dental charges and help with fares to hospitals . |
| 27 | The announcement accompanied full-year figures showing a 73 p.c. rise pre-tax profits to £3.51m , which excludes a £400,000-plus profit on the sale of its 29.9 p.c. stake in AmBrit , and a one-third rise in dividends to 6p , with a 3½p final on May 21 . |
| 28 | Other components relate to attitudes to housework and the perceived status of housewifery . |
| 29 | Tt yeah yeah erm yeah I mean it 's interesting when you come to attitudes to parenthood erm I think that 's quite an important issue because it does tap into a whole range of things about erm you know kind of er suspicions that somehow if gay or lesbian people raise children then the children 'll either be , you know , sort of corrupted or converted themselves |
| 30 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |