Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 2 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 3 | Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses . |
| 4 | A critical problem during design was how to optimise the allocation of memory to Oedipus . |
| 5 | The policy of openness in international relations and the limiting of secret agreements300 enables States to monitor the performance of agreements to which they are not parties . |
| 6 | Another test for postsynaptic changes is to monitor the sensitivity of neurons to the application of agonists before and after the induction of LTP . |
| 7 | The aim of the bill was to curb the sale of firearms to convicted felons ( by allowing police seven days in which they might , but were not compelled to , check the criminal record or mental health of a potential purchaser ) , and to impose a " cooling-off " period for would-be purchasers . |
| 8 | Boys will seldom be able or wish to preserve the degree of closeness to their mothers that it is open for girls to do . |
| 9 | Thus to claim that Atlantis actually existed , or that Achilles actually existed , is not to ascribe the property of existence to Atlantis or Achilles qua objects of thought , but simply to claim that the world contained Atlantis or Achilles . |
| 10 | He staged lavish spectacles to signify the granting of favour to a subordinate-ruler , again " in the style of Roman emperors " and made the most of the great assemblies in which king and aristocracy joined to " maintain the healthy condition of the whole realm " . |
| 11 | The importance of such figures in terms of their ability to carry the message of Marxism to working people is suggested by Neruda 's account of how , travelling the nitrate region of Chile as a senator in 1945 , ‘ at hundreds of meetings , all very far away from each other , I heard a constant plea : that I should read my poems . |
| 12 | The continuing work of the Anonymous Fellowships — and the definition of their prime purpose as stated in the 12 Traditions — is to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer . |
| 13 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 14 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 15 | Very few laboratory experiments have been done under fully simulated lower-crustal conditions to estimate the contribution of electrolytes to the in situ rock conductivity , and only one study , to our knowledge , examined carbon-bearing rock . |
| 16 | However , even though the unexpected is likely to happen , the APT maintains that it is possible for investors to estimate the sensitivity of assets to the likely variety of events that may take place . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ My vote in Synod will be cast after careful consideration , but it is public knowledge that I 'm inclined to support the ordination of women to the priesthood . ’ |
| 18 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 19 | Similarly in a 1947 survey of 2,807 women ( conducted as part of the Ministry of Labour 's campaign to stimulate the recruitment of women to industry ) , older married women in particular often gave health problems as a reason for not working outside the home ; 37 per cent of those aged between 45 and 60 mentioned ill-health to the interviewer . |
| 20 | Once more , the familiar is comfortable and supportive , but do n't neglect to get up and walk around the building — or better still , around the block — from time to time , to stimulate the supply of oxygen to the brain . |
| 21 | The event is also designed to continue the process of follow-up to WACC 's international Congress in the Philippines ( 1989 ) , which called on communicators to ‘ enter into a new phase of dialogue with related organisations and all people of good will to achieve a common understanding of communication in the service of free , just and peaceful communities at the local and international levels . ’ |
| 22 | Using worship , dance , drama , testimony and preaching we began to communicate the truth of Jesus to the Hungarians . |
| 23 | On a buy-in of shares there will not be the opportunity for Target to defer the payment of consideration to departing shareholders in a tax-efficient manner , whereas on an acquisition of Target by Newco there can be a share-for-debenture exchange as described in 5.2.4 above . |
| 24 | The proposals are intended , in particular , to encourage the inflow of investment to the UK and address matters relevant to the current recession . |
| 25 | After considerable local negotiation staff at Banstead agreed to accept the transfer of patients to Horton provided that managers did win the exemption from the requirement to go to tender . |
| 26 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 27 | At Mogadishu port , rival gangs of gunmen continued throughout the month to obstruct the transport of food to Somalia 's famine victims . |
| 28 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 29 | In order to set the bonus targets it is necessary to establish the quantity of work to be done , the method of construction , and the calculation of the relevant man hours necessary to complete the task . |
| 30 | Requests from vendors for confidentiality letters : our standard engagement letter ( see 1101.2 and the Corporate Finance Manual ) includes a paragraph dealing with our duty of confidentiality and in normal circumstances this is the proper place to establish the level of confidentiality to be observed , not only in dealings with third parties but also between the various parties involved . |