Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 2 | has outlined the complex legalities involved in trying to stop emp employers imposing changes to contracts of employment against the wishes of the employee . |
| 3 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 4 | Teachers were mainly in favour of a national curriculum , but often distressed and angered by the frequent changes made to programmes of study by the cumbersome assessment procedures and by the increasing constraints being imposed by the Department of Education — especially in English . |
| 5 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 6 | It is , therefore , our intention to seek to increase the range of NVQs offered by the Board and to market them to employers in co-operation with the Chamber movement . |
| 7 | In September government troops recaptured Buka Island ( north of Bougainville ) , allegedly in response to requests for assistance from the islanders themselves . |
| 8 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 9 | Local authorities must also respond to requests for information from a variety of interested groups . |
| 10 | responding to requests for information from the general public on issues with which the Campaign has a special interest or expertise ; |
| 11 | Social fund officers are expected to give high priority to requests for loans for the above purposes . |
| 12 | The new interface will give applications direct access to objects in Objectivity/DB via the CORBA protocol . |
| 13 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |
| 14 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 15 | This allows for a far greater sophistication of analysis because it recognises that the state and the policies it pursues may well be a result of internal conflicts within the state or due to conflicts between fractions of the capitalist class or from struggle by classes opposed to capitalism . |
| 16 | A formula can be developed which may be complicated but under which the purchase price is paid in instalments and the precise amount of the instalments will decrease depending on the extent to which the purchaser has had to satisfy the debts to creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
| 17 | Moreover , transplantation of thymic tissue from MG patients into SCID-mice lead to signs of MG in the mice ( 24 ) . |
| 18 | Parents have been selected to become erm , relatively insensitive to signs of distress in the offspring , because erm , as where they cry wolf all the time , and as a result , erm , parents do n't take crying as seriously in children as they do in adults . |
| 19 | A friend to artists in England after the war in which Apollinaire had fought was another combatant , the poet and critic Herbert Read . |
| 20 | The Eton Urban District Council granted permission ( under delegated powers ) , but after a petition , mainly from local shopkeepers , decided to seek a revocation order on the ground that ‘ the existence of a fish and chip restaurant in the High Street would be detrimental to the amenities , would cause nuisance , offence and annoyance to occupiers of properties in the vicinity and to users of the public highway , and would adversely affect the general appearance of the High Street ’ . |
| 21 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 22 | It is easy to see how such behaviour could originate out of necessity ( if B is bilingual , but A monolingual in L ) and be extended even to cases where both speakers are bilingual , out of a need to show solidarity or to conform to norms of politeness within the community . |
| 23 | He says that processed information should be available to researchers in Europe from the summer . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) A tender offer must be for cash which precludes a buyer from offering " roll-over " tax relief to shareholders by means of a securities exchange ( see para 23.2.1 below ) . |
| 25 | Less than a month before the explosion , an accident at Hoechst released 10 tonnes of potentially carcinogenic chemicals into the air over a Frankfurt suburb , leading to calls for evacuation of the area . |
| 26 | But the tougher regime for overseas person calls will not apply to calls on customers in the UK in relation to activities of the firm within its SFA authorisation ; this is because the firm is nonetheless an authorised person and the call is therefore not an overseas person call if the subject matter of the call is within its SFA business profile . |
| 27 | If the majority of the employees are seasonal workers , what happens to the rest of local agriculture , to family organisation and to conceptions of work with a shift towards part-time farming and wage labour employment ? |
| 28 | There are good theoretical grounds for making the user 's experience central to definitions of quality in a service industry like health care . |
| 29 | Ignoring the question of expenses for the time being , it will create 10 million 50p units which will be distributed to savers in proportion to the funds they subscribed . |
| 30 | The Administration Order , which has existed for about 100 years with hardly anyone noticing , was limited to cases at present below the £5000 threshold . |