Example sentences of "to [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 2 | The team continued to astound with their attacking flair and sound defence , treating the home crowd to wins of 5–1 over Plymouth , 10–1 over Croydon Common and 7–1 over New Brompton . |
| 3 | Publishers want safeguards at a practical level to ensure that it does not open the floodgates to returns of all kinds . ’ |
| 4 | COMIC Bill Cosby was named highest-paid US showbiz star yesterday — thanks to REPEATS of his TV show . |
| 5 | There was no initial prospect of romance between her and Ian , but it was suggested her admiration for the man would sometimes lead to under-currents of antagonism between her and Susan . |
| 6 | It is , he argues , almost impossible to gain access to the nature of working-class consciousness in the past ; secondly , political practice is more strongly related to strategy and tactics than to views of society ; and thirdly overarching concepts such as culture presuppose internal coherence . |
| 7 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 8 | On the southern flank great ridges stretch upwards to views of the crests and glaciers of the Italian Alps . |
| 9 | As to views of the stations , the numbers are as follows : |
| 10 | That your views were on those two questions , and let's take erm , let's stick to views of why do we need influencing , first of all . |
| 11 | By taking great care to minimize the disturbance level , experimenters have maintained laminar flow up to values of of around 1·0 × 105 . |
| 12 | In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic . |
| 13 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 14 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
| 15 | As I write Billy Graham is back in Britain again preaching to crowds of thirty thousand . |
| 16 | Every weekend , he drives around the streets talking to crowds of young Jews who gather there . |
| 17 | Spain had friends elsewhere : on 8 June 1947 the wife of the Argentinian dictator , Eva Perón , began an official visit to Spain , during which she was displayed as a symbol of Argentinian solidarity to crowds of Spaniards anxious for a glimpse of " Evita " . |
| 18 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 19 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies to hire-purchase contracts in exactly the same way as it does to contracts of sale of goods . |
| 20 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies , with one small difference , to hire contracts as it does to contracts of sale of goods , hire purchase , barter and exchange , etc . |
| 21 | has outlined the complex legalities involved in trying to stop emp employers imposing changes to contracts of employment against the wishes of the employee . |
| 22 | He is worried about various formalities relating to written contracts , and wonders in particular whether hire purchase agreements need to be in writing , whether any special formalities apply to contracts of employment , and if a contract leasing premises needs to be in any particular form . |
| 23 | In McCrone Lord Dunpark thought that this wording was " wide enough to include any contract , whether wholly written or partly oral , which includes a set of fixed terms or conditions which the proponer applies , without material variation , to contracts of the kind in question " . |
| 24 | The drafter must have a clear idea of what the terms are intended to achieve ; broadly , he/she must have ( 1 ) a sound grasp of the relevant law applying to contracts of supply and ( 2 ) a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business and the client 's particular needs . |
| 25 | Section 6 applies to contracts of sale and hire purchase and provides that liability for breach of the implied terms concerned with ( 1 ) compliance with description , ( 2 ) merchantable quality , ( 3 ) fitness for purpose and ( 4 ) correspondence with sample can never be excluded or restricted where the buyer deals as a consumer . |
| 26 | The same approach would also apply to contracts of supply such as bailment and contracts of hire . |
| 27 | The requirement of merchantability under s15(2) ( c ) is part of the wider principle applicable to contracts of supply ( see also s11(c) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss5(1) ( c ) , 10(2) ( c ) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Darwin was not specific as to why males should typically compete more strongly for access to breeding partners than females and it was left to biologists of this century to provide the answer ( Fisher , 1930 ; Bateman , 1948 ; Trivers , 1972 ) . |
| 29 | In the preparations for any civil trial , potential witnesses give written statements to solicitors of one side or the other beginning with that revealing phrase ‘ I , so-and-so of such-and-such an address , will say … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |