Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebel forces in Ethiopia have given permission for tons of food to be taken to thousands of starving people on the edge of death in the famine-hit country . |
| 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 Digital board , which is reviewing its international operation and cutting 25,000 jobs from a worldwide payroll of 102,000 , intends to concentrate its resources on a single computer manufacturing base for ease of access to the European market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 10 | For example , a conglomerate in receipt of inside information from an issuer of publicly traded securities may find itself in a position where actual compliance with its disclosure obligations to its retail customers ( ie. , those who wish to buy shares ) in accordance with the equitable principle of undivided loyalty causes it to be liable in an action for breach of confidence to its corporate clients , and guilty of tipping in violation of anti-insider dealing laws . |
| 11 | Even before the introduction of the Law Society 's Protocol , it was becoming common practice for evidence of title to be supplied before contracts were exchanged . |
| 12 | I carried in tray after tray of Whiskas to the Gairloch store . |
| 13 | In the sections where we have dealt with the psychological aspects of sign language we can see a great deal of information of relevance to psychological theories themselves . |
| 14 | The patterns and speed of adjustment of supply to these trends varied among the three major regions . |
| 15 | In Northern Ireland , special wastes are subject to the Pollution Control ( Special Waste ) Regulations ( Northern Ireland ) 1981 , which impose the same requirements as in Britain regarding pre-notification of movement of waste to suitable licensed disposal facilities . |
| 16 | In Berlin Bismarck followed events in France with increasing interest and , judging the moment precisely , began once again to push forward the candidacy of Leopold of Hohenzollern to the still vacant Spanish throne . |
| 17 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |
| 18 | For the next hour or more his will be the voice in command of Doctor Who , the one charged with the responsibility of turning words on a printed script into cans of videotape to be seen , weeks later , by the audience at home . |
| 19 | There is actually no hard and fast rule with size of handle to size of cutlery blank , but depends on the design and shape you require — I often look around shops for ideas and take my tape measure and notebook to jot measurements and ideas down . |
| 20 | Over the ensuing years a battle was waged between those who saw the discretion present in supplementary benefit decision making as a necessary part of a flexible response to human need ( Titmuss , 1971 ) and the burgeoning welfare rights movement , which demanded genuine legal rights to income maintenance with equality of access to decision-making guides and judicial appellate procedures . |
| 21 | Pin and tack the pleats on the right side from top of valance to bottom of stiffening , by bringing the solid lines together on the wrong side as with pinch pleats ( fig. 33 ) . |
| 22 | Agency — Estate agent — Conflict of interest — Agent acting for plaintiff and vendor of adjacent property — Purchaser offering to buy both properties — Agent failing to inform plaintiff of purchaser 's agreement to buy adjacent property — Whether material information — Whether agent in breach of duty to plaintiff — Whether entitled to commission |
| 23 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 24 | The state enterprises in both countries have had a considerable economic weight in terms of contribution to GNP , employment and investment . |
| 25 | Considerable changes in alcohol treatment policy have taken place , marked in particular by a shift from specialist to community care ; an increased role for the voluntary sector and primary health care ; and a change in definitions of alcoholism from theories of disease to concepts of problem alcohol use . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Pride : Pride causes much wilful action in pursuit of solutions to the problems of addictive disease . |
| 28 | ( d ) Action on receipt of reply to searches Advise client in all cases of the contents of the reply and if any material information is given , take instructions . |
| 29 | No one , suggested a judge in a leading case , should be held to be guilty of theft by reason of conduct to which no moral obloquy could reasonably attach . |
| 30 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |