Example sentences of "of [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICL , one of the key supporters of Unix V. Release 4.2 , and with $750m worth of SVR4 sales under its belt in 1991 , lent a statement of support to Sun for its Solaris operating system last week , although the statement was admittedly somewhat vague . |
| 2 | Be alert to the possibility of change to cross-talk between four people , which is much more difficult for the speechreader . |
| 3 | One is the failure to understand the radical hostility of communism to mankind as a whole — the failure to realise that communism is irredeemable , that there exist no ‘ better' ’ variants of communism : that it is incapable of growing ‘ ‘ kinder' ’ , that it can not survive as an ideology without using terror and that consequently to co-exist with communism on the same planet is impossible . |
| 4 | Young men with periodontitis had a nearly threefold increased risk of death from coronary heart disease but only about a 50% increased risk of admission to hospital for coronary heart disease . |
| 5 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 6 | She undertook the first serious application of photography to science by making photograms of her extensive collection of algae . |
| 7 | Equality before God leads of necessity to equality before the law . |
| 8 | Restitution — Quasi-contract — Moneys had and received — Payments of moneys to revenue in accordance with statutory instrument — Payments made without prejudice to claim for return if statutory instrument void — Whether moneys repayable by revenue with interest — Supreme Court Act 1981 ( c. 54 ) , s. 35A ( as inserted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( c. 53 ) , s. 15(1) , Sch . |
| 9 | It does not deal directly with possession of weapons , nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place . |
| 10 | The building society will be staffing a mortgage desk at each auction , and says buyers could arrange finance there and then , subject of course to proof of income and status . |
| 11 | While the Language in Use team wish to order priorities differently and the Humanities Project 's teachers wish to rearrange literature to illustrate relevant social issues , there is an extreme form of resistance to literature on the grounds that it is part of the ‘ syllabus of established middle-class culture ’ . |
| 12 | Education was also at the centre of the revival of resistance to apartheid in the 1970s . |
| 13 | All debts for the purpose of entitlement to interest under this section rank equally , ie preferential debts do not have preferential rights to interest . |
| 14 | The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ . |
| 15 | And er your parents or your mother or your father would get up very early that morning to light the copper , so that the water would be hot to start boiling , it would probably take , it could take a couple of hours to sort of re really heat a copper full of hot water . |
| 16 | If actual infection is uncommon , a balanitis due to C. albicans is not ; but this is more often due to the ‘ allergic ’ type of response to infection in the sexual partner . |
| 17 | Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body . |
| 18 | As the prevalence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has risen so the risk of exposure to HIV-1 with each unsafe sexual encounter will have increased . |
| 19 | To mark the opening , Seve played a hole with selected partners , many of whom had donated sums of money to charity for the privilege . |
| 20 | In addition , acid rain mobilizes the aluminium in forest soils ( from harmless soil compounds such as aluminium silicate ) which decreases the ratio of calcium to aluminium in soil solutions to the extent that root growth is impaired . |
| 21 | Water-use efficiency calculated from 13 C is often highly correlated with the ratio of biomass to transpiration of C3 plants , but the correlation is influenced by leaf-to-air vapour pressure differences . |
| 22 | THE report A Survey Of Attitudes To Sex Among 13 to 17-year-olds was written for the Daily Mirror by the Research Group of Great Britain Limited . |
| 23 | I do not suggest that these measures alone will revolutionise training in Britain , but , taken in conjunction with other measures that we have taken , the considerable progress made by the training and enterprise councils , together with Investors in People and our national record of achievement , we are certainly well on the way to completing a transformation of attitudes to training in Britain . |
| 24 | Now you think that because I am I am forgiven and I preach forgiveness that I would be pretty good as up people , but that 's part of my human failure and I must admit that I 've given plenty of opportunity to practice at home and at work er the opportunity to forgive , but it does n't come easily and certainly it is n't a strong feature of the non-Christian world in which I work and which you will be working soon . |
| 25 | The usual order is judgment for arrears of rent to date of termination of the tenancy , and for mesne profits to date of hearing and thereafter mesne profits at a daily rate and ( almost invariably calculated by reference to the rent ) from the date of hearing until actual possession is given up . |
| 26 | The small cetaceans ( dolphins , porpoises , and small toothed whales ) show a remarkable range of adaptations to life in and under the surface of the ocean . |
| 27 | The biomass of colobines shows a close positive correlation with the ratio of protein to fibre at each site , while there is no evidence of predation or disease limiting the populations . |
| 28 | ‘ arrangements for ensuring , so far as is reasonably practicable , safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use , handling , storage and transport of articles and substances . ’ |
| 29 | The author has experienced such extremes as the time lapse from date of submission to receipt of detailed planning approval varying from five days to 18 months . |
| 30 | The deep divisions within the party over the abortion issue were illustrated by Bush in an interview on Aug. 12 in which he appeared to have softened his own stance of opposition to abortion under almost all circumstances , by recognising the importance of a woman 's personal choice in the matter . |