Example sentences of "to the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) . |
| 2 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 3 | The multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of referrals to these community teams for the elderly is not associated with misdiagnosis of psychiatric disorder . |
| 4 | Commitment to the assessment of pupils is the requirement of the 1988 Education Reform Act which most directly touches teachers . |
| 5 | They are particularly suited to the assessment of Outcomes concerned with analysis , synthesis and evaluation . |
| 6 | Indeed , Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences . |
| 7 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 8 | Night netting can be carried out after dark around well stocked game covers with only minimal disturbance to the birds in places where both shooting and ferreting the rabbits would be far more of an interference . |
| 9 | Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing . |
| 10 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of Northallerton health authority , was still confident the district would have its own scanner by Christmas thanks to the efforts of fund-raisers . |
| 11 | It 's only thanks to the efforts of walkers that we 've got so far . ’ |
| 12 | It is equally likely that the activities associated with meals ( chewing , digesting and absorbing food ) could all send information to the SCN via nerves from the gut . |
| 13 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 14 | For the rest of the time it is a mass of dead stems which can remain standing for up to two years , a sight distasteful to town-dwellers who , thanks to the energies of gardeners and the preference of landscape architects for evergreens , are not accustomed to seeing decay . |
| 15 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 16 | There are good reasons — nothing to do with prudishness — why the age of consent has been set at 16 , and the risk of cancer only adds to the dangers of Aids and unwanted pregnancies . |
| 17 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 18 | Again , commercialism may lead to the pursuit of indicators , such as current balance sheet results , chosen more to convince the government that commercial goals are being successfully achieved than for their relevance to the economic objectives of the enterprise . |
| 19 | For a while the palazzo became an important meeting point of the political and artistic halves of the city , but history does not specify whether in the longer term Sgr Greppi was admitted to the ranks of noblemen . |
| 20 | Betty relates many other tales of her world-wide flying trips with her late husband Air Commodore George Heycock CB DFC , making this book an interesting addition to the ranks of publications charting the participation of women in British aviation . |
| 21 | The dogs were allowed to drag their handlers closer to the ranks of men as the roll-call was made . |
| 22 | Capital refers again and again to the themes of Formen . |
| 23 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 24 | It relates to the calculation of pensions in this country . |
| 25 | Others ascribe the weakening of community consciousness to the failures of the churches to inculcate a sense of moral responsibility into the population , to the fashion for ‘ permissiveness ’ in education in the 1960s and 1970s which undermined respect for authority , and to the failures of parents to control their children . |
| 26 | Royal officers , under the charge of admirals , were despatched to the ports with instructions to impress or requisition vessels for the king 's use , whether this was to transport men , animals , or equipment across the sea . |
| 27 | In such a situation the possibility exists for attributions of meaning to be made to the deeds of members of the microsociety which bear little resemblance to the meanings attributed by the members themselves . |
| 28 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 29 | It was a fitting postscript to the year of victories and the real end of the invasion danger . |
| 30 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |