Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] to [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This increase underlines my commitment to improvements across the whole range of law and order programmes , consistent with the undertakings outlined in the recently published ’ Justice Charter for Scotland ’ . |
| 2 | This led to a reappraisal by the Euro-currency markets and banks-of their exposure to borrowers in the non-industrialized world , carrying With it the danger that attitudes could swing too far in the opposite direction and that too restrictive a stance might jeopardize international trade and economic growth . |
| 3 | For since that day when he had made his accusations , tearing her heart to shreds in the process , Jake had refused to have any more to do with her . |
| 4 | Usually insects smell by tuning their antennae to scents in the air . |
| 5 | When violence followed Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians to Lebanon in December , Israel started to close its borders to workers from the occupied territories . |
| 6 | Following a meeting of United States , United Kingdom and Hong Kong government officials in Washington on June 6 , the US government stated that it was to drop its opposition to negotiations between the UK and Vietnamese governments for the " involuntary repatriation " of Vietnamese boat people not considered to be genuine refugees , and to the possible establishment of an internationally managed centre in Vietnam to hold them on their return . |
| 7 | Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects . |
| 8 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 9 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 10 | Once an organisation is operational it is not unusual for it to extend its powers to matters outside the treaty , or to implement policies or decisions without following the procedural requirements of the treaty . |
| 11 | Laois ) which exports all of its output to markets in the U.K. , Germany , Italy , there is something else . |
| 12 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
| 13 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 14 | The object of these exercises was sometimes to try and get a change of policy , sometimes to indicate alarm should certain lines of policy be carried further and sometimes so that the critics can signal their feelings to sections of the party outside Parliament ( Left-wing MPs , for instance , use this method to get support in the annual elections to the National Executive Committee of the party from activists in the constituencies ) . |
| 15 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |
| 16 | After the results had been confirmed she attributed her victory to votes from the women of Ireland , who " instead of rocking the cradle rocked the system " . |
| 17 | Conductors could make some money for themselves by selling lists of well-known passengers on their trains to representatives of the Associated Press . |
| 18 | ABB Vecto Gray , the Aberdeen-based manufacturer of drilling and production equipment added its voice to worries about the Budget . |
| 19 | The elements of language are relatively arbitrary in regard to their referents in the real world , whereas images signify through their ‘ iconicity ’ , through their resemblance to referents in the real world ( Eco 1976 , pp. 191ff ) . |
| 20 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 21 | Young men in middle adolescence describe their friends to researchers in the YPLL team in terms similar to those used by pre-adolescent girls — failing to see emotional support , closeness or security as important qualities of a friendship . |
| 22 | There , the mainstream of the labour movement was content to confine its challenge to employers to the economic sphere and in the absence of any socialist party alliance no serious political challenge was posed . |
| 23 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 24 | Thus , the different tRNA-modification enzymes vary considerably in their sensitivity to perturbations of the tertiary structure of their tRNA substrates . |
| 25 | The primary justification is its value to churches in the Third World . |
| 26 | In those constituencies where two Whig and two Tory candidates stood , the vast majority gave both their votes to men from the same party . |
| 27 | Two stylish Waterfront restaurants have opened their doors to diners in The Calls area : |
| 28 | Clearly , someone who wishes to hedge his exposure to variations in the price of an asset in his portfolio could do so either by purchasing an appropriate forward contract — from a bank perhaps — or by purchasing exchange traded futures . |
| 29 | 4.3 We propose a general rule that the liability of the original tenant , and his entitlement to benefits under the lease , should not survive an assignment of the lease . |
| 30 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |