Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group operating profit of £92m is increased by net profit on sale or termination of discontinued operations of £2.2m , less provision for loss on operations to be discontinued of £1.9m , to produce profit on onrdinary activities of £92.3m before interest and other income . |
| 2 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 3 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 4 | The rhetorical use of anthropology inevitably involved Marx and Engels in a search of the anthropological literature for examples of opposites to the institutions of capitalism . |
| 5 | The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease . |
| 6 | he gave the plaintiff judgement for 75% of damages to be assessed and directed that the seat belt issue should be tried separately from quantum . |
| 7 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 8 | Delegates also agreed to the phased lifting of sanctions in categories to be determined by the newly elected NEC . |
| 9 | The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities , and documents the principal barriers to entry . |
| 10 | All the same , however , it is at least tempting to think that ‘ why ? ’ here demands a switch of attention from rules to the intentions and motives of the agent . |
| 11 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 12 | Since their arrival on March 20 , the visitors have enjoyed an action-packed programme of events including trips to London , Cambridge and Colchester . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , his attempt to move international relations from the study of relations between nations to the study of ‘ world society ’ ( leaving aside the essential vagueness of this latter idea ) , did represent a progressive problem shift for all those interested in the elephants rather than the little creatures . |
| 14 | The City is concerned that the original proposals would have hindered the dissemination of information from companies to investors . |
| 15 | The need to check if , and how fully , an authority will meet the cost in such cases is outlined by the Department of Health in guidelines to authorities on how the NHS market will work . |
| 16 | While the ICJ judges accepted that Libya , along with many other countries , had a law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , there was majority agreement that the two UN Resolutions were in accordance with Chapter VII of the UN Charter ( Articles 39 to 51 , covering UN Security Council " action with respect to threats to the peace , breaches of the peace and acts of aggression " ) and should therefore be complied with . |
| 17 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 18 | Pride : Pride causes much wilful action in pursuit of solutions to the problems of addictive disease . |
| 19 | The Americans have demanded a reduction of 75% in subsidies to agriculture across the board . |
| 20 | By the end of the course you will have prepared every kind of dish from sandwiches to a full-scale dinner . |
| 21 | Just the men , what 's the kind of proportion of women to men in the factory ? |
| 22 | The large , multinational chemical company that is the subject of Case 1 had facilities in over eighty countries and produced a variety of products from pharmaceuticals to heavy chemicals . |
| 23 | The answer to this important clinical problem was shown by experiments ( between 1950 and 1967 ) on a variety of animals from rabbits to monkeys , which showed that only artificial ventilation was a reliable method of resuscitation . |
| 24 | The software also runs in a variety of environments from mainframes to client-servers to personal computers , and , he added , can , therefore , be used on a company-wide basis . |
| 25 | In July 1990 the then BN-affiliated PBS , led by Kitangan , won a clear majority of seats in elections to the Sabah State Assembly . |
| 26 | Following the Paris meeting Baker announced the removal of obstacles to visits to Vietnam by US citizens and the removal of the travel restrictions on Vietnamese diplomats at the UN in New York . |
| 27 | On Jan. 16 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) reported that hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict were on the brink of starvation in camps to the south of the capital . |
| 28 | Caught in London during the revolution of that year , he refused to join either John de Stratford , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] , or the archbishop of Canterbury in embassies to Queen Isabella , and fled to Rochester . |
| 29 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 30 | It is unclear what the relation of error correction models is to models which explain revision of behaviour as responses to new information . |