Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out . |
| 2 | They include a new way of controlling waterborne diseases , and of administering drugs to people with chronic diseases . |
| 3 | The very fact of suggesting things to people tends to result in inaccuracies . |
| 4 | All were victims of a year-long bribery scandal in which dozens of politicians stand accused of demanding contributions to party funds in return for lucrative public works contracts . |
| 5 | Its vivid descriptions of the joys and glories of heaven have encouraged many weary servants of God , whilst its warnings of hell and exhortations to repent have been the means of bringing others to faith in Christ . |
| 6 | Although there was no causal connection between the two trends , it became evident that as the volume of legislation increased , public confidence in the ways of bringing offenders to justice and punishing the guilty declined . |
| 7 | ‘ The breach of an order is now clearly seen as a criminal offence and the police will be pursuing a policy of bringing offenders to justice with the full and unambiguous backing of the criminal justice system , ’ he stressed . |
| 8 | They argue that if the same rigour was applied to drafting proper legislation the problem of bringing suspects to trial could be eliminated . |
| 9 | On this issue Owen and Roger have come into open conflict but , although the observation that Roger lacks commitment to the aim of returning pupils to school is a correct one , the implications drawn from it are not . |
| 10 | Given their basic categorial " frame of reference " , the central issue for most of them becomes one of defining the criteria of significant ascriptions of experiences — which in practice invariably reduces to the problem of defining the general truth-conditions of ascribing experiences to others . |
| 11 | In December 1990 , the Commission amended its Proposal for a Fifth Directive as part of a general policy of eliminating obstacles to takeover bids . |
| 12 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | His passionate onslaught at the 1985 party conference against the Militants of Merseyside ( whom he accused of hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices to their workers ) appealed to the unions and gave him new public stature . |
| 14 | ‘ He desired to appeal to the moral feelings of the nation and approved therefore of promoting petitions to parliament ; but he distrusted and disowned the questionable strength which might be gained by systematic agitation . ’ |
| 15 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 16 | But behind the apparently straightforward process of assigning numbers to variants of a variable in such a way as to reflect , reasonably faithfully , their phonetic and social relationships with each other lies a great deal of linguistic , sociological and mathematical abstraction . |
| 17 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 18 | The Question of Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Mark 12:13–17 ; Matt 22:15–22 ; Luke 20:20–26 ) |
| 19 | Sources said they were accused of paying kickbacks to politicians to obtain public contracts . |
| 20 | Since the use of unit trusts as a way of paying bonuses to employees came to an end , vouchers have been attracting attention . |
| 21 | What are the best ways of fixing mirrors to walls ? |
| 22 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 23 | In testimony and published accounts he had insisted that he had argued against the proposition of selling arms to Iran and had believed that the idea had been abandoned . |
| 24 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 25 | It is a useful way of adding touches to garments made on the chunky machine . |
| 26 | Comparing these different measures is an advanced case of adding apples to oranges to cows — which makes the table on page 105 a highly misleading and dangerous animal . |
| 27 | The petitions had accused Biya of adding names to voter registration lists , setting up fake polling stations and withholding ballot papers . |
| 28 | The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children . |
| 29 | If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees . |
| 30 | The expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees . |