Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get his own back , Stroganov took advantage of the atmosphere of March 1848 to complain to the tsar of the Ministry of Education 's " liberalism " . |
| 2 | Fearfrost was forged by the ancient khan-queen Miska of the Gospodars in the ancient days when the tribes of Kislev first journeyed to the west . |
| 3 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 4 | An unpublished but widely quoted UN International Civil Aviation Organization report of May 1989 referred to the involvement of the Vincennes in a series of provocative incidents in the Gulf before and after the Iranian incident . |
| 5 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 6 | ( The ‘ higher powers ’ of an intransitive relation arise when there are chains of elements each related to the next by the relation in question ; thus , if A is the father of B , B of C , and C of D , then A stands in the ‘ third power ’ of the relation ’ — father of — ’ to D. ) It can easily be seen that A in 1(a) and P in 1(b) fulfil this requirement ( assuming , of course , that the lines in the diagrams symbolise the relation of dominance ) . |
| 7 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 8 | Mutations in several Pax genes lead to severe developmental abnormalities : ( 1 ) a mutation in the paired box of murine Pax-1 leads to the undulated phenotype which exhibits distortions of the vertebral column ; ( 2 ) a mutation in the Pax-6 gene leads to the semidominant Small eye phenotype in mouse and a mutation in the putative human homologue of this gene may be responsible for the aniridia disorder ; ( 3 ) mutations in the putative human homologue to Pax-3 ( HuP2 ) occasionally lead to hearing loss associated with Waardenburg 's syndrome , whereas in mouse a deletion in Pax-3 causes the splotch phenotype which is associated with spina bifida , exencephaly , a tail flexion defect and deficiencies in neural crest cell derivatives . |
| 9 | ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ . |
| 10 | The Offtackle Plan of November 1949 referred to the need to retard a Soviet advance , but the Americans continued to refine their contingency plans for a fighting retreat to such peripheral positions in or around continental Europe as proved tenable against a Soviet offensive . |
| 11 | He reminds the visitor that so famed were Swiss soldiers for their heroism that monarchs vied with each other to hire them , and that the Swiss guards of Louis XVI died to a man in his defence when the mob stormed the Royal Palace in August 1792 . |
| 12 | Under section 230 certain derogations from the provisions of Schedule 4 apply to the individual accounts of a parent which is required to prepare consolidated accounts ( and has done so ) thereby rendering those provisions otiose . |
| 13 | However , following Noriega 's formal assumption of power on Dec. 15 as head of state , a United States military invasion of Dec. 20 led to the overthrow of Noriega and the immediate installation of Guillermo Endara Galimany ( widely believed to have won the May elections ) as President [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 14 | The right of private prosecution ( now under threat ) , the role of the police in prosecution as against the comparative advantages of public prosecutors , the function of the DPP , the involvement of the Attorney-General in the question of injunctions against criminal activity , and the prerogative of mercy all add to the institutional complexity . |
| 15 | Here there will need to be not one module in EP but a variety of modules each geared to a particular path and each with a different set of prerequisites . |
| 16 | Last year 's extraordinary tax credit of £4.8 million relating to the House of Lords judgement in May 1992 on the £50 million payment to Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited in 1984 has been reclassified as exceptional and is included in profit after tax and earnings per share . |
| 17 | An official quoted in a report in the Los Angeles Times of April 26 referred to a secret meeting , at which he was present , only two months before the invasion , when senior administration members decided to continue funnelling assistance , including food aid , intelligence data and advanced weapons technology . |