Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the , it 's been put to me to er interview various people or listen to other people if they can tell me about |
| 2 | The classification exercise provides another arena for the conflicting points of view as to the relative importance of good people as opposed to good systems . |
| 3 | The extent to which spadefoot tadpoles become cannibalistic varies between the different species and according to ecological circumstance . |
| 4 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 5 | Explore the exciting underwater world at the Brighton Sea Life Centre … discover one of England 's largest collections of marine creatures from shrimps , starfish and stingrays to sensational sharks and octopus . |
| 6 | Forecasters may attempt to identify shifts as between , say : * preferences towards work and leisure orientations ; * preferences for individually determined as opposed to governmentally determined expenditure ( eg pressure for tax reductions , restricting local government expenditure etc ) ; * traditional authority/religious personal ethics as opposed to personal freedom and individualistic behaviour . |
| 7 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |