Example sentences of "of the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was evidently doubt as to the status of the Armagnac lordships and about the nature of the homage to be performed . |
| 2 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 3 | THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains . |
| 4 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 5 | The function of their role we see as being , like that of the deviant in relation to society , the visible demonstration of the limits to ‘ legitimate ’ action . |
| 6 | The FSX 's predecessor , the Mitsubishi Fl , reminded Japanese firms of the limits to their aircraft-engineering skills . |
| 7 | Then , with the return of the sheep to the village grazings , we knew that winter was once more upon us . |
| 8 | One recommendation was to rotate sheep through paddocks , but since it involved the return of the sheep to their previously grazed paddocks in the same season , this was of little value . |
| 9 | I felt like Father Christmas as I entered the front door of the cottage to be welcomed like a long-lost son . |
| 10 | He walked back around the side of the cottage to the open kitchen window , where the two girls were putting the packed food into a basket . |
| 11 | After several attempts at attracting attention with the knocker he walked round the side of the cottage to the back garden . |
| 12 | All the journalists need in the way of facilities are typewriters , telephones , and copies of the papers to be presented at the meeting . |
| 13 | The name of the user to be made responsible for the SPR . |
| 14 | When you select this option , the first page will be displayed to obtain the name of the user to be updated . |
| 15 | The name of the user to be updated . |
| 16 | The name of the user to be viewed . |
| 17 | As to strand 2 — the north-south strand — of the talks to which the Secretary of State referred , the new Taoiseach announced that articles 2 and 3 would be on the table , and we all understand that . |
| 18 | These items only permit one example of the shape to be given by the pupil or presented in the test . |
| 19 | The appeal of the games to particularly young boys may be in the fact that a lot of the games are all about some little guy fighting and eventually conquering a large evil monster . |
| 20 | Whether HMIs or local inspectors are involved , the school still has to give over control of the evaluation to outsiders ; it may only be willing to do this if teachers are assured of the kind of fairness discussed above . |
| 21 | Examples of the architecture to which Mary was accustomed during her early life in France . |
| 22 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 23 | And whereas other Renaissance examples of the exhortation to marriage dwell on the delight and solace of the married state , our poet 's argument , by contrast , is directed to the friend 's reproduction of himself for the benefit of posterity . |
| 24 | It is time that more attention was drawn to the contribution of the SBS to the war in the Mediterranean ; what better way than to republish this first class account . |
| 25 | In 1918 his stock was confiscated , but he became chairman of the cooperative to which it was assigned . |
| 26 | There is one more piece of the jigsaw to be inserted . |
| 27 | He was the last prominent member of Madani 's more radical faction of the FIS to be arrested . |
| 28 | Over-exposure of the embryos to the low pH will result in lysis of some or all of the cells within minutes . |
| 29 | According to the Acts of the Apostles Peter took the lead in opening membership of the church to Gentiles . |
| 30 | This is an odd square , the Baroque façade of the church to the saint and the rococo façade of the church of San Bernardino contrasting poorly with the modern buildings whose architectural qualities — if they exist at all — are fairly well hidden . |