Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly . |
| 2 | The question is whether he can discharge that responsibility to Parliament without being in day-to-day charge . |
| 3 | It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available . |
| 4 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 5 | ‘ She was proud of that piece to camera at the end , ’ murmured Terry , in his flat London accent . |
| 6 | I hope that we will be able to give some protection to people like James , people who are in a very weak position . |
| 7 | There were approximately 700 firms offering holidays of some kind to consumers in the United Kingdom in 1986 . |
| 8 | However , a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease . |
| 9 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 10 | SmithKline Beecham also gained another 16p to 440p on further consideration of Tuesday 's figures . |
| 11 | Some Christian women are dissatisfied with this route to equality through male generic neutrality . |
| 12 | She showed some response to treatment with supportive measure — namely , oral 20 mg prednisolone daily in a reducing dose and ampicillin . |
| 13 | I for one very much welcome the possibility of custodianship as yet another route to permanence for children in care , or at risk of coming into long-term care . |
| 14 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 15 | Associated with this rise to prominence of the social survey method were new modes of theorising about social action and social organisation . |
| 16 | With this rise to power of a single male deity and the concomitant lessening in status of the other members of the Israelite pantheon ( especially its female members ) , the role played by women in public religion began to diminish . |
| 17 | Initial reports from the site indicated that there had been some damage to buildings at the camp site , some distance from the gas plant , but that the plant itself remained unscathed . |
| 18 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 19 | Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms . |
| 20 | His clothing was always dark , usually black , with few concessions to colours of the brighter hue . |
| 21 | I was going to send some pictures to Marcus in prison but I do n't suppose they would let him have them . |
| 22 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 23 | The union had already shown some opposition to aspects of Government policy , but this had always been voiced in a guarded or indirect way in its newspaper . |
| 24 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
| 25 | Whether the courts would extend this remedy to information in documents which were accidentally released as opposed to surrepticiously obtained was answered in English and American Insurance Co Ltd v Herbert Smith [ 1988 ] FSR 232 . |
| 26 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 27 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 28 | See note to s.103 for rules , relating to clubs , which may have some relevance to rules for seaman 's canteens . |
| 29 | Justifying this self-neglect to Theo in 1880 , he also commended it as ‘ a good way to assure the solitude necessary for concentrating on whatever study preoccupies one . ’ |
| 30 | The media has added another dimension to racism by accusing Africans of importing AIDS . |