Example sentences of "of [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ On sentencing any person convicted of murder to imprisonment for life the court may at the same time declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence under section 27 of the Prison Act 1952 … |
| 32 | To compensate , Asian families were prepared to cut current consumption drastically , thus raising the ratio of savings to GDP to heights ( such as 39 per cent ) unheard of in developed countries . |
| 33 | Although the emphasis gradually changes , as the child gets older , from learning the language system to using language as a resource to learn about other things , there is no reason to believe that there is an abrupt change at the point of entry to school in the learning strategies that the child employs , or in the characteristics of adult behaviour that provide the most help . |
| 34 | The pointed arch provided a more flexible system since it could be varied in proportion of width to height in order to accommodate different spans and roof levels . |
| 35 | Take a suitably sized plastic beach ball , cutaway for the face from nape of neck to forehead with nice curvy lines , and carefully estimate where the fluffy ears will have to project and trim the earholes tight . |
| 36 | We engaged a solicitor to look into the matter and he became convinced that there was I wo n't say a loophole , that there was a reason why this should not be done and er requested the Committee of Management to Court for advice . |
| 37 | We need , therefore , to understand the relationship of gospel to culture in general terms , and then go on to examine in detail its engagement with the specific culture in which we are involved . |
| 38 | She took bits of chicken to bed with her and fell asleep while still chewing . |
| 39 | More striking still is the variety of responses to evolutionism in different countries . |
| 40 | It also included the lowering of barriers to entry into the Stock Exchange by British and overseas banks and other international dealers in securities . |
| 41 | this is , that 's a sort of reference to sort of |
| 42 | Such clichés fill her first speech of welcome to Wilekin with a set of offers that for the reader and writer are ironically naive in the context of which we are aware : ( " If you like , come and sit , and what your will is , let me know , my dear life . |
| 43 | While discussion of a corporate information system is as yet largely speculative , our experience of the Payroll/Personnel database system over the last three years has given rise to various working hypotheses of relevance to management in general and the personnel function in particular . |
| 44 | The marginal productivity of capital in Germany is higher than in the UK , therefore the rate of return to capital in Germany is higher than in the UK . |
| 45 | An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in … |
| 46 | In total , in the ‘ no training officer ’ group there was less evidence of team decisions , less evidence of decision-making in the frame-work of existing plans/priorities , more mention of need to have local authority approval , and more mention of relevancy to post as a criterion . |
| 47 | Pin and tack the pleats on the right side from top of valance to bottom of stiffening , by bringing the solid lines together on the wrong side as with pinch pleats ( fig. 33 ) . |
| 48 | This has been shown by lower prevalence of antibodies to toxoplasma in immigrants to Paris than in women of French origin , a factor suggested to be the consequence of a cultural preference for poorly cooked meat . |
| 49 | Frontier workers , commuting from a country of residence to employment in another State , have a number of established rights , e.g. to social security benefits , but specific difficulties remain , particularly in regard to taxation . |
| 50 | This set-up allowed Thomson to compute the ratio of charge to mass for the particles which the experiment seemed to show must compose the rays . |
| 51 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
| 52 | The barriers which the USSR erects in the name of Security to communication between Westerners with knowledge to disseminate and Russians who can benefit is perhaps the most blatant of its self-imposed handicaps . |
| 53 | The Author has paid a lot of attention to detail in the use of controls and instruments . |
| 54 | The Author has paid a lot of attention to detail in the use of controls and instruments . |
| 55 | As with other aids to construction it has entered a judicial mélange of aids to construction to which unregulated weight may be given . |
| 56 | In July the Earls of Northampton , Oxford , Pembroke and Devon together with Sir Hugh Despenser , Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Richard Stafford took an army to the duchy and put Charles of Blois to flight at the battle of Morlaix on 30 September , while in October the king himself embarked for Brittany , aware that part of the duchy had already been regained for the Montfort cause . |
| 57 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 58 | The environmental crisis will , he says , require an increase in the flow of resources to the Third World , debt relief , fair pricing of commodities , land reform and help for Third World food producers in the form of a phasing-out of subsidies to agriculture in the developed nations . |
| 59 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 60 | The Woolwich Equitable Building Society was entitled as of right to interest on the repayment of a capital sum that had been paid to the Inland Revenue pursuant to Regulations that were ultra vires and void . |