Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask why the ancestors of lions took to meat-eating , while the ancestors of antelopes took to grass-eating , the answer could be that originally it was an accident . |
| 2 | Every day the chemist makes use of such concepts as resonance electronegativity , hybridisation , zero point energies and classification of the states of molecules according to symmetry and angular momentum . |
| 3 | Poster exhibition containing summary descriptions of projects funded to date |
| 4 | The failure of projects leads to parsimony which goes hand in hand with waste . |
| 5 | ( b ) Construction The general rules for the construction of contracts apply to exclusion clauses in just the same way as to other clauses . |
| 6 | ‘ The warning applies to all kinds of contracts relating to business equipment including faxes , and vending machines . |
| 7 | Although fish are not a usual ‘ pest ’ , the team of servicemen set to work immediately and , wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus , removed the decomposing fish and freezers from the premises . |
| 8 | A 5 Corps summary of personnel surrendered to date on 17 May , for instance [ KP 142 ] reports a particularly large group of 10,000 Croats from 12th Croat Division at Sittersdorf . |
| 9 | If we think of the ways in which the term research is used , a variety of activities spring to mind . |
| 10 | The ideology was composed of a series of rules relating to marriage , the family and Home that for the evangelicals were rooted in Christianity but were also clearly related to wider social and economic aspirations . |
| 11 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 12 | However , the number of self-injuries identified in Edinburgh through referrals to the Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre may have been an underestimate of the total number of cases referred to hospital ( Kreitman 1977 ) , and , in addition , a high proportion of patients with self-injuries may not be referred to hospital at all ( Kennedy and Kreitman 1973 ) . |
| 13 | They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen . |
| 14 | Prior to this decision the authorities had in a number of cases resorted to violence to prevent people from seeking refuge in the embassies of various Western countries . |
| 15 | The most obvious sort of ‘ group ’ will be a local congregation ( remember the urgent need to move back into the churches and be owned by them where we are not ) but it could be a Youth Group , a VIth form , a sports team , a WDM Group , an organisation or club — all manner of groups come to mind . |
| 16 | Right , let's , this is hypothetical so it is it 's the first thing that comes to my head but it may I would n't take it as s take groups , for example , you just got the handout on groups and you get a question coming up that might say erm , I do n't know , how could groups how could a w what does our understanding of groups owe to speech therapy ? |
| 17 | It took the banks nearly two years to retaliate with interest bearing accounts of their own in an attempt to stem the flood of accounts deserting to building societies . |
| 18 | Section 5(3) affords to the defendant a number of defences relating to lack of fault that are not available on a charge under section 4 . |
| 19 | Analysis of progressions leading to dissociation ( at which point the progression breaks off to be replaced by continuous absorption ) can give us accurate values of dissociation energies for simple molecules . |
| 20 | In contrast , those writers allied with the working class , committed to a " non-classical " position , produce a responsible literature of movement which in a variety of forms seeks to foreground the reality of existence . |
| 21 | The decision was described by Le Monde of July 10 as Cresson 's " first exercise in Realpolitik in industrial matters " since her appointment as Prime Minister , and by Bull 's chairman as essential to the success of plans to return to profitability by the end of 1992 . |
| 22 | We drank our tea against a panorama of peaks listening to birdsong . |
| 23 | The idea of the organization of peoples according to descent was one of the most common in the past . |
| 24 | To the ancient Egyptian this diversity was easily acceptable , being inherent to divine powers who were approached through a variety of images related to nature and animal and human life . |
| 25 | According to unofficial indications the Janata Dal ( S ) had 61 votes of its own and had the support of Congress ( I ) and 27 members of parties allied to Congress ( I ) . |
| 26 | His study of more than 200 sites in the cantons of Grison and Valais involved the collection of data on a range of variables relating to relief , the degree of site modification in piste construction such as the amount of levelling , soil characteristics , vegetation cover and its disturbance as well as impact assessment , notably sheet , rill and gully erosion , sediment deposition and landslipping . |
| 27 | Sometimes technical disputes are referred to an expert , while all other kinds of disputes go to arbitration or litigation : this may be useful in giving an appropriate forum of dispute resolution for whatever dispute arises . |
| 28 | Less than one percent of entries added to dictionary updates are original — most are compounds created by stringing together existing words ( global warming ; crack house ; butterfly effect ; daisy age rapper ) . |
| 29 | The subsequent assignment of levels of attainment to certain age groups introduces a further layer of control on the ability of schools to respond to diversity . |
| 30 | James , Lewis and Allison ( 1987 ) document the growth of concessions related to capital transfer tax and conclude that , like its predecessor estate duty , it is ‘ a voluntary tax paid only by those who dislike[d] their relatives even more than they disliked paying tax ’ ( p. 45 ) |