Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 2 | This strategy of imputing impurity to women who challenged medical hegemony had its effects . |
| 3 | Given their basic categorial " frame of reference " , the central issue for most of them becomes one of defining the criteria of significant ascriptions of experiences — which in practice invariably reduces to the problem of defining the general truth-conditions of ascribing experiences to others . |
| 4 | Nevertheless serious misgivings may persist about the wisdom of ascribing identity to meanings . |
| 5 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 6 | And Walker ( 1978 ) has argued that although all rural dwellers are burdened by the extra costs of gaining access to services , doing without them , or consuming inadequate services , that these costs bear disproportionately on the rural poor . |
| 7 | Not that it is impossible , but practical considerations of gaining access to situations and the confidence of the people involved in any reasonable length of time mean that one will probably study the situation from one side or the other . |
| 8 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 9 | They would n't dream of causing offence to Muslims . ’ |
| 10 | Fifty seven year old Mr Culley admitted seven charges of causing suffering to animals . |
| 11 | He talks of assigning responsibility to children , holding them responsible , requiring them to take responsibility and these are natural ways of speaking . |
| 12 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 13 | But behind the apparently straightforward process of assigning numbers to variants of a variable in such a way as to reflect , reasonably faithfully , their phonetic and social relationships with each other lies a great deal of linguistic , sociological and mathematical abstraction . |
| 14 | Though the policy of according preference to foreigners has been retained , its application has changed dramatically . |
| 15 | You must tell us immediately if the Police give formal notice to you of withdrawing response to signals/calls made by your intruder alarm . |
| 16 | Sources said they were accused of paying kickbacks to politicians to obtain public contracts . |
| 17 | Nowadays , about a decade after publication of Children 's Minds , developmentalists write about children with a far better understanding of the importance of paying heed to children 's abilities in everyday contexts as well as experimental ones . |
| 18 | Since the use of unit trusts as a way of paying bonuses to employees came to an end , vouchers have been attracting attention . |
| 19 | What are the best ways of fixing mirrors to walls ? |
| 20 | In counselling , indeed in any of the ‘ talking ’ therapies , tears play an important part , first of all in the release of tension , and later as a way of directing attention to areas which are ‘ tender ’ and might repay exploration . |
| 21 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 22 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 23 | It is a useful way of adding touches to garments made on the chunky machine . |
| 24 | Comparing these different measures is an advanced case of adding apples to oranges to cows — which makes the table on page 105 a highly misleading and dangerous animal . |
| 25 | The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children . |
| 26 | If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees . |
| 27 | The expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees . |
| 28 | Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 29 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 30 | The Accounting Standards Board has issued a statement setting out its policy on the applicability of accounting standards to transactions that had been entered into before the standard had been issued . |