Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Often , the groups of fans most dedicated to hooligan behaviour are organised into hard-core ‘ fighting crews ’ ( e.g. the Leeds United ‘ Service Crew ’ , Manchester United 's ‘ Red Devils ’ , West Ham 's ‘ Inter City Crew ’ , Chelsea 's ‘ Anti-Personnel Firm ’ , Arsenal 's ‘ Gooners ’ , Millwall 's ‘ Bushwackers ’ , Tottenham 's ‘ The Spurs Yids ’ and , in Scotland , Aberdeen 's ‘ Soccer Casuals ’ ) .
2 The product was designed to run on the Open Software Foundation 's DCE but Forte has found its remote procedure call ( RPC ) slow and incapable of the number of messages Forte needs to route .
3 From the point of view of teacher activity as pragmatic mediation , operational techniques are the enactment of ideas previously subjected to appraisal which provides them with a rationale .
4 In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots .
5 A path wound away from the house , leading through the ridges and furrows of fields long left to nature .
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