Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a darkened hive the angle of orientation of the central segment of the dance with respect to the vertical is strongly correlated with the angle between the food source and the sun 's position . |
| 2 | It is the angle of this part of the dance with respect to the vertical that tells the other bees the direction to the food . |
| 3 | The angle of the waggled part of the dance with respect to vertical symbolizes the angle between the food source and the sun . |
| 4 | P&O merchant seamen were in the thick of the battle from start to finish and the war histories of P&O , British India , Orient Line , New Zealand Shipping , Hain Nourse , Strick , Federal Steam and Moss Hutchison tell of countless dramas and acts of courage . |
| 5 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 6 | The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast between adaptation to convention and rebellion . |
| 7 | In the beginning most of the members were elderly and the first meetings were ill-attended , but by the spring of 1935 more younger people had joined and , encouraged by the consent of the Duke of Montrose to be the President , it began to flourish , reaching a membership of about 150 . |
| 8 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 9 | He had sentenced the entire General Synod of the Church of England to death . |
| 10 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |
| 11 | A close connection was evidently established between the territories dominated by the northern Anglian king and the claims of the church of York to wide-ranging ecclesiastical authority in north Britain , these claims perhaps encouraging a tendency to exaggerate the extent of the Northumbrian hegemony . |
| 12 | In his reply to Coenwulf , the pope refused to countenance the removal of the archbishop of Canterbury to London , but the impact of this papal prohibition was offset by the papal recognition of Eadberht 's earlier ordination and consequent ineligibility for the kingship and permission was given to proceed against him as a pretender to royal power . |
| 13 | It would be useful to know whether there are any similarities in the graves with and without amber in each type of cemetery as it may help us to understand whether such goods are being handed down through society and something of the controls on access to them . |
| 14 | There were four major East Coast developments in the 1980s : the significant increase in HST productivity so that sets could be more extensively deployed to provide service to Inverness , Glasgow Queen Street , Hull and Cleethorpes ; electrification of the route from Hitchin to Leeds with only minor interference to train services ; introduction of a new track-maintenance strategy and transfer of overnight Anglo-Scottish sleeping-car services to the West Coast main line . |
| 15 | His work for the BDDA stretched over nearly twenty years , during which time he served in an honourary capacity as Secretary , as Chairman of the Scottish Regional Council and as editor of the BDN in succession to Kenneth McDougall . |
| 16 | But as far as aim is with , on a typical day , say if I get out of the depot at quarter to nine , if you like , and look at today 's string , I go to Derby . |
| 17 | Or should he , de Craon wondered , abandon this game , resume his official status and demand the betrothal of the Prince of Wales to the Princess Isabella ? |
| 18 | That year will also be the 50th anniversary of the fall of Shanghai to the Communists , an event that ravaged the Keswick family fortunes . |
| 19 | According to the Foreign Ministry statement , the former officials were released on April 30 , the 17th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the communist forces . |
| 20 | Such arguments perhaps illustrate the extent of the fall from grace to positivist criminology in recent years . |
| 21 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 22 | That is one of the problems of democracy to which we shall have to return . |
| 23 | As instances of mockery we can cite the reaction of the court of Navarre to the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( Love 's Labour 's Lost , V.ii.484ff. ) , or that of Athens to ‘ Pyramus and Thisbe ’ ( Midsummer Night 's Dream , V.i.106ff . ) . |
| 24 | Johnson , which began in the county court , situations can arise in which there is not only an important point of interpretation to be decided , but also binding decisions of the Court of Appeal to be considered . |
| 25 | This brings us back to the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist . |
| 26 | the failure of the Court of Appeal to relist in order to dispose of B 's remaining arguments about his trial ( and , if necessary , to certify matters for appeal to the House of Lords , including the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction ) is both a substantive failure of the legal system to provide B with a fair criminal trial and a demonstration that there are no further remedies to raise the issue available to B within the English legal system that he must pursue as a precondition for the admissibility of any claim under the European Convention . |
| 27 | The Gallagher jurisdiction rule is uncertain ; the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist B's appeal combined with its refusal to certify prevented B from resolving the uncertainty or ascertaining what English law is on this matter . |
| 28 | 463 , a decision of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the false pretences rule concerning the passing of a good title to an innocent purchaser applied when the owner had been induced by false pretences to deliver goods to the buyer on sale or return . |
| 29 | In Lim 's case [ 1980 ] AC 174 , at pp187F-188D the House of Lords affirmed a ruling of the Court of Appeal to this effect given in Cunningham 's case [ 1973 ] QB 942 at p957 per Lawton LJ . |
| 30 | That is , the restoration of the court of Gascony to its former purpose would mean that appeals would not leave the duchy for the Paris Parlement . |