Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act applied the provisions for elections to the Assembly to the elections to the Constitutional Convention . |
| 2 | He made the comment in remarks to a visiting official from North Korea , one of only a handful of foreign countries to send special delegations for national day . |
| 3 | Gossage made the photographs on visits to Berlin between 1982 and 1986 . |
| 4 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 5 | Data revealed the majority of victims to be female ( 94 per cent ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Anthropologists ' study of human societies on this planet [ has ] revealed the condition of women to be a direct result of their peoples ' perception of their mysterious , fearsome , monthly flow of blood . ’ |
| 7 | There is evidence that it became the practice for individuals to be named after the day on which they were born and that couples were not allowed to marry if their birthdays had the same numeral . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This affirmed the right of citizens to a clean and healthy environment in regard to the quality of air and water , food and drinking water , protection against noise and contamination of soil , soil erosion and desertification , the preservation of fauna and flora and the natural heritage , and amenities in residential areas ; and a commitment to global environmental preservation , especially as regards the Antarctic , the ozone layer , and tropical forests . |
| 10 | So , while growth of the welfare state hardly loosened the compulsion on workers to work , it did undermine dependence on any particular employer and provided an additional source of conflict , in the course of which such greater independence could be exercised . |
| 11 | By encouraging teachers to assess all four aspects , which many found very difficult , ISS drew the attention of teachers to the fact that the curriculum is frequently too narrow in its definition of achievement , often assessing mainly aspect 1 . |
| 12 | Murderer Steven Mynott , 29 , and Phillip Ayres , 25 , fled the day after improvements to a 17ft security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 13 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 14 | This involved the abolition of barriers to the free movement of persons , goods , services and capital ; all of which accorded well with prevailing Conservative liberal economics with the emphasis on free trade and consumer choice . |
| 15 | As currently envisaged , " stage three " involved the transfer of powers to a European central bank and the creation of a single European currency ( rather than a " hard ecu " used in parallel with existing European currencies as proposed by the UK — see p. 37969 ) . |
| 16 | The Israeli and SLA response in both cases involved the shelling of villages to the north . |
| 17 | However , an opinion poll carried out in 1987 found the majority of residents to be against the projects with opponents outnumbering supporters by more than two to one . |
| 18 | he told her that even if he was caught he had now enough money to get her , police monitoring calls to the Shipway 's office traced the call within seconds to a phone box at the service station on the A one at Groinby near Gran Grantham Lan , Lincolnshire , police cars arrived at the call box only minutes after the kidnapper had left |
| 19 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 20 | To wind up the proceedings Commandant Vonla McBride , a member of the RNLI 's Committee of Management , proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness The Duke of Kent for attending the meeting and for presenting the awards . |
| 21 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 22 | In a wide-ranging television interview on Nov. 9 President François Mitterrand proposed a number of changes to the Constitution , including a reduction in the president 's term from seven " at least " to six years , a reduction of presidential powers and a corresponding increase in the powers of the Prime Minister and the National Assembly , a strengthening of the independence of the judiciary ( including ending ministerial immunity from prosecution in ordinary courts ) , and greater scope for the use of referendums . |
| 23 | Cunard reported a drop in profits to 31 March from £30.1 million to £7.6 million . |
| 24 | A recent study on patients who were selected because of changes in warning symptoms associated with the change of insulin species found no differences between responses to hypoglycaemia induced by porcine or human insulin . |
| 25 | The use of the statistical levy on all imports produced a sharp reaction from Paraguay and Brazil , both members of the nascent South American Common Market ( Mercosur ) , which involved a commitment by members to phase out trade barriers [ see p. 38096 for the March 1991 Treaty establishing Mercosur ] . |
| 26 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 27 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 28 | In 1455 Charles VII of France forbade the grant of safe-conducts to the English , but this ban was relaxed and trade , albeit reduced in volume , continued until 1462 . |
| 29 | To escape them the king , at the suit of Sir Allen Apsley , Victualler of the Navy , in 1629 granted the Forest of Galtres to his creditors in fee-farm , in consideration of a fine of £20,000 . |
| 30 | CPRW opposed the issuing of licences to the Hamilton Oil Company to prospect close to Bardsey Island . |