Example sentences of "of [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law did not , however , provide for genuine representative government as demanded by many Hong Kong citizens , although it increased the number of directly elected seats to the Legislative Council to one-third of the total by 1997 . |
| 2 | Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case . |
| 3 | Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits . |
| 4 | She continued caring for his wardrobe during her royal romance , on one occasion delivering a pile of freshly laundered shirts to the back entrance of St James 's Palace , where Rory was on duty , in order to avoid the press . |
| 5 | It is the genius of Shakespeare that his plays offer plenty of fully written parts to a band of players . |
| 6 | Of course this 6000 includes some individuals that we picked up more than once ; but by marking the toads we ensured that we counted each one only once each year , and standard marking and recapture techniques enabled us to estimate the size of the population , and the annual rate of mortality and recruitment of newly matured adults to the breeding population . |