Example sentences of "of [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race . |
| 2 | Cut one piece of interfacing to finished size . |
| 3 | We 've lost acres and acres of woodland to fast grain farming . |
| 4 | Greater attention is also being paid to the process of admission to residential care . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the obvious example of admission to residential care , there are many less significant matters in which , for example , the old person 's attachment to the primary carer makes them reluctant to let anyone else play a part in their support . |
| 6 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 7 | A further level of complexity to hepatocyte-matrix interaction results from the propensity of the matrix to act as a reservoir and presenter of cell growth factors and cytokines . |
| 8 | The possibility of transfer of responsibility to central government agencies for some services previously provided by local authorities has already been mentioned . |
| 9 | Marx attempted to reduce all forms of inequality to social class and argued that classes formed the only significant social groups in society . |
| 10 | Studies on rats show that blood ionic fluoride levels of 0.2 parts per million cause dental fluorosis — a serious form of damage to developing tooth cells ; and rats are between one-seventh and one-tenth less sensitive to fluoride than humans . |
| 11 | For details of damage to Croatian art and architecture see The Art Newspaper No. 12 , November 1991 , pp.1–2 and No.13 , December 1991 , p.1 . |
| 12 | We have seen that during a period of twenty years between the wars , town planning in Britain consolidated its position in local authority practice , consultant advocacy and professional solidarity , though little was achieved by way of addition to intellectual content or method . |
| 13 | A second possible source of reactive oxygen species is the xanthine oxidase pathway in colonocytes that also produces superoxide anions by conversion of xanthine/hypoxanthine to uric acid . |
| 14 | Kicking Against the Pricks , an album of cover versions , marked the key shift from poet visionary of sex-and-death to interpretive balladeer , from torched singer to a croon the colour of cinders , from Dionysiac excess to a ruined classicism . |
| 15 | Conflict has arisen over the unit of representation and forms of election to joint union committees within companies ( see below ) , often reflecting national debates about union organization . |
| 16 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 17 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 18 | This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour . |
| 19 | ‘ Relevance of course to particular responsibility of member of staff ’ . |
| 20 | He referred , of course to British Rail which had suffered a drop in investment of £180 million . |
| 21 | The theme of resistance to increased centralization is persistent , linking the formation of both European States and those in the rest of the world . |
| 22 | Bearing the name of Mandela , and in her own right , she increasingly became one of the symbols of resistance to racist tyranny both at home and abroad . |
| 23 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 24 | The aims are laudable , given the often grotesque caricatures of African , Asian and Arab histories and cultures ; the neglect of the destructive , exploitative effects of colonialism and imperialism in school texts and in popular cultural forms such as comics , adventure stories , adult fiction and the cinema ; and the absence of any serious treatment of resistance to imperial rule ( Mackenzie , 1984 , 1986 ; Klein , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | And that is at least one of the problems with Locke 's theory of the right of resistance to arbitrary government . |
| 26 | Even in the question of resistance to outside control , the picture was equivocal . |
| 27 | To such , the dauphin became the living symbol of resistance to English rule in the years to come . |
| 28 | There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination . |
| 29 | Sickness and disability mean not only varying rates of entitlement to social security benefits for different socio-economic groups but also different possibilities of being able to return to work . |
| 30 | Indeed , while it is not the brief of this chapter to comment on state pension provision , it must be remarked that in the early 1960s , as subsequently , it was chiefly the low level of state provision which made the presence or absence of entitlement to occupational pension benefits so crucial to many household budgets , not least to lone female households . |