Example sentences of "of [noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is against freedom of trade and natural justice to subject one group of solicitors to extra rules because they do not practice in partnership ; |
| 2 | Two main forms of privatization can be identified at local level : first , the issuing of contracts to private agencies to undertake work for councils and , secondly , a redefinition of certain existing public services as services which should be supplied by the market . |
| 3 | The new wording , insisted on by the US government , which is refusing to commit itself to specific targets , refers to the reduction of emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 as merely a " guideline " target . |
| 4 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 5 | Roughly speaking , plain , unemotional , ordered " talking " , which is heavily dependent upon our ability to recognize and encode binary discriminations ( distinctive features in phonology and logical oppositions in argument ) , has been shown to be a function of the left hemisphere of the brain , while emotional responses , which are the consequence of reactions to sensory inputs from outside , are a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 6 | Erm y'know I mean because people have a whole variety of reactions to these things which you may want to investigate more specifically . |
| 7 | Occasionally , housing policies in local areas have attempted to restrict the sale of houses to local inhabitants . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the wrong reading responses with exception words should demonstrate the application of rules to these words , as in the pint example . |
| 9 | Decisions must be made by the methodical application of rules to particular cases , not upon any private motivations . |
| 10 | The aim of the bill was to curb the sale of firearms to convicted felons ( by allowing police seven days in which they might , but were not compelled to , check the criminal record or mental health of a potential purchaser ) , and to impose a " cooling-off " period for would-be purchasers . |
| 11 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 12 | The attitude of employers to domestic responsibilities is of considerable importance and highly variable . |
| 13 | Although a minority of the group succeeded in finding jobs , these did not last long , and , like the rest of this group , who remained unemployed , they became frustrated and disillusioned by the difficulties they experienced in finding employment and by the attitude of employers to older workers . |
| 14 | In 1986 , only 4 per cent of conceptions to married women aged 20–4 were legally terminated compared to 43 per cent to married women aged over 40 . |
| 15 | The proportion of these abortions to older married women is declining : 55 per cent of conceptions to married women over age 35 were aborted in 1975 ; 25 per cent in 1985 . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly , to put young offenders in the same prison and even in the same cell as hardened criminals will be counter-productive but more discriminating allocation of prisoners to suitable establishments with training facilities may well be capable of effecting reform and rehabilitation . ’ |
| 17 | But , before delegation of cases to local judges could take place on a wide scale , there needed to be a manual of existing canon law as recognized in the West . |
| 18 | These range from a matter of hours to thirty years for Caesium 137 and 24,000 years for Plutonium 239 . |
| 19 | Grants of immunities to whole industries against antitrust laws no longer make any sense . |
| 20 | We seem to see here a first concept of temple-decoration , the guardian symbols , beginning to give hesitant way to the idea which was to prevail : the devotion of temple-gables to narrative scenes from myth and legend . |
| 21 | That agreement in no way affects the work of another BBC Enterprises department , that of Education and Training Sales , which distributes a wide variety of programmes to non-paying audiences . |
| 22 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |
| 23 | This is established in feline leukaemia , of which the greatly increased incidence in households with many cats is due mainly to exposure of kittens to large doses of a virus that usually causes merely an immunising infection . |
| 24 | Such references also tended to crop up in the earlier discussion of attitudes to particular tasks : this comment of Jean Bevan 's is representative : |
| 25 | Indeed , taking things a step further , you can break down an overall favourable attitude to a brand into a set of attitudes to different aspects of the brand . |
| 26 | Dudley Wood , secretary of the Rugby Union , has confirmed what officials , who run the registration rules , have been saying : ‘ It may be necessary to lengthen the period of qualification following a change of clubs to 12 months with dispensations . ’ |
| 27 | It is ironic the new arrangements , in which social services return to the role of gatekeepers to public funds for residential care , are described as the introduction of community care . |
| 28 | The apportionment of subjects to main classes reflects the state of knowledge when the scheme was designed . |
| 29 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 30 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |