Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include a new way of controlling waterborne diseases , and of administering drugs to people with chronic diseases . |
| 2 | The very fact of suggesting things to people tends to result in inaccuracies . |
| 3 | The Bill will be a further significant contribution towards the vital aim of bringing reassurance to people who might otherwise be at risk of losing their homes . |
| 4 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 5 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200M-bytes per second data transfer capable of addressing 8Mb to 256Mb of memory . |
| 6 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200 Mbyte/second data transfer and capable of addressing 8MB to 256MB of memory . |
| 7 | If you have a more considerate attitude one where you 're going to sort of give way to people , show a little bit more consideration to other road users , I think you 'd find that it 's gon na it pays off . |
| 8 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you do n't approve of giving money to people in the street , so that was nice of you . ’ |
| 10 | Oh well , there 's no harm done in this case , only you really must be more chary of giving invitations to people we know nothing about . ’ |
| 11 | The custom of giving jewels to people as Easter presents continues today . |
| 12 | The purpose is not to is not to train in the sense of imparting knowledge to people who do n't have it , but rather to put whatever experience they have into context , on which we can have something to contribute . |
| 13 | And the headmaster had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties . |
| 14 | In his Green Paper ‘ The Health of the Nation ’ he suggests a target of reducing smoking to 21% of women and 22% of men by 2000 and refers to the need for ‘ continued recognition of the importance of controls on advertising of tobacco ’ . |