Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite the increased strength of labour , as reflected in welfare provisions and moves towards ‘ industrial democracy ’ , workers were still obliged to sell their labour power to employers whose freedom of action they might be able to limit , but certainly not control . |
2 | In my view racism , which should be distinguished from racial discrimination , should be restricted to discourses which group human populations into ‘ races ’ on the basis of some biological signifier — for example , ‘ stock ’ — with each ‘ race ’ being regarded as having essential characteristics or a certain essential character ( as in the phrase ‘ the British character ’ , or in attributions to ‘ races ’ of laziness , rebelliousness , or industriousness ) and where inferiorization of some ‘ races ’ may or may not be present . |
3 | The note to Ord 24 in The County Court Practice says that with reference to occupiers whose occupation was originally unlawful ( otherwise , seemingly , if the occupation started as lawful as with for example , a terminated service occupancy ) , then the court will normally order " possession forthwith " , but the orders issued by the court ( unless the court has fixed a date ) will simply state that the plaintiff " do recover possession " . |
4 | Its role has been ‘ to provide reassurance to the government , to give support to policies which BR wish to pursue , to provide briefing material for Department of Transport Ministers in argument and negotiations with ministerial colleagues , and to provide an atmosphere of professionalism and control over the business which governments — and the public — expect ’ ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
5 | This ‘ technological ’ view of education and teaching also prevents teachers from deliberately gravitating to schools whose ideology they like , and in which they will feel comfortable . |
6 | Part of our volunteers work is to commend to schools our range of written and audio-visual materials . |
7 | NORTON is to motorbikes what Aston Martin is to motorcars . |
8 | Determined not to be viewed as another Wang , Groupe Bull SA took the time to clarify to journalists its position regarding IBM and the RS/6000 last week at its Les Clayes-sous-Bois research and development centre in Paris . |
9 | We performed additional analyses restricted to subjects whose history of smoking was known at baseline . |
10 | When we restricted the analyses to subjects whose history of smoking was known the results were similar to the results among all subjects . |
11 | In analyses restricted to subjects whose history of smoking was known , however , the results were compatible with the overall results . |
12 | Unfortunately , however , a good many East Indiamen were unable to enter the Bay of Bengal , which was effectively restricted to vessels whose bottoms had been plated with copper to prevent damage from marine worms . |
13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assistance was given by his Department to traders whose businesses were disrupted by the Castle Court development in Belfast . |
14 | What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk . |
15 | What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk . |
16 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
17 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
18 | It believes its TeleScript technology will be to computers what Postscript was to printer . |
19 | But I also care because of the high quality of the scripts. thirtysomething is to soaps what Hill Street Blues was to cop shows : sharp , irridescent and innovative . |
20 | And secondly , priority for the milk which is available , and which is strictly distributed by the Milk Marketing Board , is given to normal milk suppliers or to sectors whose products have a limited shelf-life , such as yoghurt-makers , rather than to cheese or butter manufacturers . |
21 | Introduce Opportunities to parties whose acquisition requirements are a matter of public knowledge ( EXTBUY ) . |
22 | If one believes that education is for all children and must be regarded as in many ways the great equalizer , it is hard to accept the proposition that education in morality and religion should be left to parents whose fulfilment of this obligation will be far from equal . |
23 | Well how am I going to report to parents our spelling ? |
24 | As the trade union movement has found out in recent times , sometimes to its painful cost , modern capitalism and exploitation does not recognize international frontiers and employers and their political supporters are not slow to export their practices to countries whose borders have previously been closed to them . |
25 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
26 | A pause , in which she tried to feet what Rose was struggling to say . |
27 | Probably a reaction to toxins our bodies had n't encountered before . |
28 | But the French government which will pick up most of the tab through increased social security costs is giving the handout only to companies which toe the state policy on drugs . |
29 | The theorem is applicable to polygons whose constituent triangles share the above properties . |
30 | There were minor improvements : capacity charges to Boards whose peaks were on Sunday and did not coincide with system peaks were reduced a little in 1950 and further in 1954 ; an allowance was made for lower-cost regional energy imports in 1957 . |