Example sentences of "of the [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 2 | And whereas other Renaissance examples of the exhortation to marriage dwell on the delight and solace of the married state , our poet 's argument , by contrast , is directed to the friend 's reproduction of himself for the benefit of posterity . |
| 3 | But it appears that Williams had cleverly manipulated the debate in order to demonstrate the acquiescence of the church to slavery . |
| 4 | Another example that illustrates the need for change is the diminished opportunity to pass deterrent sentences , not just in terms of the threat to society of a particular offender , but the threat to society that is posed by the crime at large in which these people are involved . |
| 5 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 6 | The exploitation of Nigeria 's natural gas is particularly important in view of the threat to oil exports posed by increasing home consumption . |
| 7 | Set against Labour 's attraction to the recent elevation of socialism in the EEC is their dislike of the threat to employment posed by the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 8 | A small number of people were happy to have their money paid into the bank , but opposed the scheme because of the threat to Post Offices and inconvenience to others . |
| 9 | During the Korean War , Attlee made Britain 's objections to the extension of the conflict to mainland China crystal clear to Truman . |
| 10 | Nearly a century later , another bestselling American business story offered a different concept of heroism and a different description of the route to success . |
| 11 | To use the jargon , federalism means extending the competence of the Euro-institutions to defence , foreign , immigration and asylum , social , and economic policies — the bread and butter issues of our politics are to be removed from this Parliament and transferred to Brussels . |
| 12 | This time the government proceeded to a public trial , which resulted in the condemnation of the Prince to life imprisonment in the fortress of Ham in the north of France . |
| 13 | As we saw earlier , Francis Bacon was able to turn the doctrine of the Fall to advantage : Science would help restore that dominion over nature lost to humanity through Adam 's sin . |
| 14 | This enthusiastic band augmented the famous blue tunics with a daring ‘ bare midriff ’ ensemble to lecture and show Medau Movement in all parts of the country to PE Colleges , Education Authorities , Social/Women 's groups , and various public bodies . |
| 15 | ‘ The deficit we face , and the borrowing requirement we have , is far too large , and it is one of the obstacles to recovery . ’ |
| 16 | County Council 's similarly encouraged by the widest support inclusion of the policy has elicited , as I say at least in principle Chairman , and most of the respondents to alteration number three . |
| 17 | This reflects the actual opportunity cost of the resources to society as a whole . |
| 18 | He has confessed to most of the charges to court investigators and western reporters and maintains he was not coerced into admitting his guilt . |
| 19 | Patrick McAuslan and John McEldowney write of the contribution to disaffection throughout western Europe of what they term the gap ‘ between on the one hand the rhetoric of democracy , of even-handed administration , and of equal opportunities for all , and on the other the increasing centralization and insensitivity of public administration ’ . |
| 20 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 21 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 22 | But it does much to dispel the prevailing confusion and , in our opinion , constitutes one of the most important treatments of the subject to date . |
| 23 | Progressive solution compaction leads to alteration of the grain to grain contacts , from the original point contacts , through planar ( or tangential ) contacts to inter-penetrating ( concavo-convex ) and sutural grain to grain contacts ( Fig. 5.19c-e ) . |
| 24 | The problem is going to get much larger , and it is not good enough simply to make money out of the rush to home ownership . |
| 25 | But since brachiopods were unable to do many of the things that bivalves do very efficiently , it would be unwise to attribute the decline of the brachiopods to diversification of the bivalves . |
| 26 | These seminars provided a general introduction to the qualifications , and outlined the results of the pilot to date . |
| 27 | But witnesses later said they saw employees beating at least some of the birds to death , while the report found that the shed , which could properly hold only three birds , had been packed with 72 . |
| 28 | In cases where Condition 10.1 does not apply , we shall be obliged to pay you in accordance with the terms specified overleaf upon delivery of the goods to storage , and ( where such storage exceeds 30 days ) we shall reimburse you for your reasonable expenses ( including insurance ) of such storage . |
| 29 | The universality of the orientation to truth makes it as much a part of the genetic qualities of human being as the ability to communicate through language . |
| 30 | The first potentially troublesome arrangement involved the nailing of the slates to timber battens in the conventional way , but these battens were first fixed to boarding or ‘ sarking ’ nailed to the top surfaces of the rafters . |