Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |
| 2 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 3 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 4 | This is established in feline leukaemia , of which the greatly increased incidence in households with many cats is due mainly to exposure of kittens to large doses of a virus that usually causes merely an immunising infection . |
| 5 | The historic decision came after Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell referred the case back to Court of Appeal on the grounds that the sentence was ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 6 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , many teachers ( and others ) foresaw , when they read the assessment proposals in TNC , the possibility of a ‘ national maths ( or science , etc. ) day ’ when all pupils would take the nationally prescribed tests leading eventually to publication of results for each class ( and their teacher ) , each school and each LEA . |
| 8 | Most failures in examinations are due not to a deficiency of knowledge but chiefly to lack of familiarity with the techniques of playing the examination game . |
| 9 | Rarely had the rollercoaster dynamic of rock 'n' roll been so extreme — unknowns shoot from nowhere to top of charts with incendiary musical formula . |