Example sentences of "and [noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He despises form , reduces everything , sites and figures and houses to geometric complexes , to cubes . ’ |
| 2 | regional and social variations in English accents and dialects ; and attitudes to such variations ; |
| 3 | regional and social variations in English accents and dialects ; and attitudes to such variations ; the range of purposes which spoken language serves ; and the forms and functions of spoken Standard English . |
| 4 | The choice of finials ranges from sculptured pineapples and lanterns to simple ball-ends . |
| 5 | The problem of going round in circles is caused by a surplus of information and explanation , and a deficit of ideas and reactions to those ideas . |
| 6 | The academic registrar The academic registrar is a full-time administrator , responsible for all matters academic — from the appointment of academic staff to the admission of students , from college statutes and rules to formal relationships between the college and its principal funding authorities . |
| 7 | However , he does not consider either the costs and returns to different groups in society nor different regions of the world . |
| 8 | The ‘ Chicago ’ human capital approach ( e.g. Becker 1971 ; also see Mincer 1980 ) perhaps goes overboard the other way , seeing observed inequality as simply the reflection of current investments in human capital and returns to past investments . |
| 9 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 10 | The French banking and financial group allocates three pages of its 1991 annual report and accounts to human resources . |
| 11 | In addition there were nineteen new items introducing the latest colours and patterns to existing ranges . |
| 12 | Design is both the practical business of fitting the type and illustrations to editorial imperatives ‘ making it work on the page ’ and the subtler business of giving the report the right feel and character . |
| 13 | Those with an eye for a lucrative deal raced to convert every spare inch of space — from barns and warehouses to derelict docksides — into fashionable homes . |
| 14 | After war work in France she moved to Oxford in 1920 and was inspired by the teaching of R. R. Marett [ q.v. ] to a distinction in her Oxford diploma in anthropology before returning to France with a Mary Ewart scholarship ( 1922–3 ) and introductions to leading archaeologists . |
| 15 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin flies out of Heathrow for Budapest today after talks with Labour leader John Smith , lunch at Buckingham Palace and speeches to both houses of Parliament . |
| 17 | The possibility of credit transfer from these modules and units to general SVQs at levels III and IV is under consideration . |
| 18 | In defence of the ban , evidence was submitted of repression of dissidents , supply of arms and funds to ideological allies abroad , the origins of party funds , and CPSU involvement in the attempted coup , as well as new evidence of a State Security Committee ( KGB ) department to plan political murders . |
| 19 | At the peak , the breweries were one of the single biggest spenders , upgrading bars and restaurants to new levels of speed and hygiene . |
| 20 | We were continually answering questions and giving away pre-decimal coins , badges and keyrings to young children , who were fascinated by our finds . |
| 21 | Dots correspond to model conformations and squares to crystallographic results . |
| 22 | This research focuses on the tensions in State-peasant relations as autonomous producer organisations have emerged and demanded respect for their political independence and solutions to basic demands . |
| 23 | is pleased to report that mother and cygnets are doing well and thanks to tasty titbits of Omega petfood are growing stronger every day . |
| 24 | When the openers were parted it was Gower who held the innings together with 90 , and thanks to 51 Extras the follow-on target was passed with three wickets in hand , and the total made 310 . |
| 25 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 26 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 27 | structures and stabilities to perpendicular alkenes and bridged acetylenes , and their relationship to normal planar and linear systems ; |
| 28 | Looking back at 4 , we might surmise that teachers and pupils have a shared schema for the progress and structure of a school lesson and their roles and responses to possible events . |
| 29 | A fine comedy resulted , as the high culture of pre-war Vienna was reduced to eight discs , one book ( Goethe 's poems ) , one luxury ( a bath-tub ) , and responses to such questions as ‘ What should a person going into an art gallery for the first time look for ? ’ |
| 30 | Clearly the social services must be flexible in their attitudes and responses to such problems . |