Example sentences of "of [noun sg] to [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any authority which sees abrogation of responsibility to drug users as an option is badly advised . ’ |
| 2 | An alternative to the scanning hypothesis of laterality differences in tachistoscopic recognition is that , with unilateral stimulus presentation at least , words ( Terrace , 1959 ) and letters ( Bryden , 1966 ) and material for which a verbal label is readily available ( Wyke and Ettlinger , 1961 ; Bryden and Rainey , 1963 ) are more accurately recognised in the right visual field as a consequence of the more direct neural pathway from the right than from the left side of fixation to language areas of the left cerebral hemisphere . |
| 3 | ‘ That would do a hell of a lot of harm to job prospects in the North . ’ |
| 4 | This piece of research studied a scheme of entry to degree courses for candidates aged twenty one years and over who were without formal matriculation qualifications . |
| 5 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 6 | This auto-haemorrhage , as it is called , is an astonishing refinement of the death-feigning strategy , implying that predators pay a great deal of attention to minute details of their prey 's condition . |
| 7 | The ratio of service to manufacturing jobs in most rural areas is of the order of 2 : 1 , but in the remoter rural areas this rises to 4 : 1 ( Gilg 1976 ) ; service employment however also tends to include more part-time work and self-employed workers . |
| 8 | The usefulness of water to organisms results from several properties , the most important of which are : |
| 9 | Neven and Siotis , in this issue , contrast decentralization of policy to competition authorities in member states with centralization in a strengthened DGIV in Brussels . |
| 10 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 11 | This , they argue , will give a new lease of life to moribund markets in cities like Hamburg and Hanover , which lie close to the former border between the two Germanies — near the once feared Soviet army , that is , and some way from once all-important markets to the West . |
| 12 | Torquay United are expected to appoint Dave Smith manager today in succession to Cyril Knowles , the former Tottenham player who took the club from the verge of relegation to promotion play-offs in 1988 and the Sherpa Van Trophy final four months ago . |
| 13 | The albumin excretion rate correlates well with both the albumin concentration and the ratio of albumin to creatinine concentrations in first morning urine specimens . |
| 14 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |