Example sentences of "to [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 2 | They are both regressive taxes , in that they fall in relation to income as income rises , except where the complex rebate system helps lower incomes . |
| 3 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 4 | Women 's rights groups say fewer women would report rape and even fewer cases would come to trial if anonymity was not guaranteed . |
| 5 | In keeping open the lines with the past , the redeemed memory carries encouragement and conveys warnings and lessons to faith as faith is engaged in fighting at that front line of the battle which is the present moment . |
| 6 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 7 | ALLEN FOSTER has returned to Rugby as coach after ostensibly resigning two weeks ago , but the position of Steve Brain , the Courage League One side 's captain , remains uncertain . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter had only spent nine months in Dudley when he accepted an invitation to Bridgnorth as Curate to the Vicar , Mr.Madstart , whom he describes as a ‘ good preacher and a most excellent minister ’ . |
| 9 | However , I would suggest that this is due more to luck than judgement , having noticed that the nut has been heavily shimmed in order to raise it , compensating for string slots which are cut much too deeply . |
| 10 | The tarot cards he uses are used in many parts of the world to play card games , where their association with ‘ fortune ’ refers more to luck than knowledge . |
| 11 | When one begins to list the dozens of schema-based inferences which even such a brief passage as this evokes , it soon becomes clear that there is much more to comprehension than vocabulary and sentence structure — comprehension is crucially dependent upon schemata . |
| 12 | A final dividend of 7.1 pence per share , up 0.45 pence , is being proposed to shareholders as Resolution No. 2 at the Annual General Meeting , making a total for the year of 10.3 pence , an increase of 6.7% over last year . |
| 13 | Knighton recall batsman Alan Williams and bowler Doug Williams for the trip to Bromyard while captain Dave Lisvesly returns to lead the second team at home to Bromyard seconds . |
| 14 | His return to Middlesbrough as cover for Stephen Pears will leave Scarborough manager Ray McHale with a key position to fill for the final five matches . |
| 15 | There is more to partnership than juxtaposition and faith . |
| 16 | Hayden Phillips , smooth , urbane , the kind of establishment figure that the Thatcherites liked to take on , he has had a brilliant career which started in the Home Office , took him to Brussels as chef de cabinet to Roy Jenkins and then to the Treasury as Deputy Secretary . |
| 17 | But of course , her father had confused those looks for her , given her hazel eyes and hair whose redness owed more to carrots than claret … |
| 18 | Bukharin realised , just as well as Preobrazhensky , that there would have to be a transfer of resources to industry if industrialisation was to proceed . |
| 19 | Of particular relevance to Barbarossa as Emperor was the use of the chain mail stolen from the Saracens , and the resulting changes in European manufacture that followed . |
| 20 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 21 | Let me repeat , in Darcy 's Utopia Church and State will be firmly separated : religious broadcasting will be forbidden on the grounds that it is divisive , racist , sexist , and an incitement to violence as belief structure clashes with belief structure — Christian at the hands of the Jew , Hindu the Muslim , Protestant the Catholic , Sikh of Buddhist , Capitalist of Communist , and of course vice versa — and no doubt the Moonies and the EST-ites will soon be kneecapping one another with a clear conscience . |
| 22 | The sugar industry has campaigned to separate sugar from medical conditions other than tooth decay , and has suggested that natural sugars , carbohydrates and frequency of consumption are more important to cavities than sugar itself . |
| 23 | A wine may have 7% to 14% while whisky must have 40% . |
| 24 | Calligraphy — which literally translates as ‘ beautiful writing ’ — bears the same relationship to typography as post and lintel architecture does to the classical orders . |
| 25 | In October 1990 the USA had halted all economic and military aid to Pakistan after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 26 | There , he and his fellow students ‘ often gave more time to books than drawing ’ , and his life became an attractive combination of early-morning reading , architectural work in the day , and evenings playing the violin with his father at festivities in and around Bockhampton . |
| 27 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 28 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 29 | Mildew is destructive to cotton whereas nylon looks stained and smells a bit but the fabric remains intact . |
| 30 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |