Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK accredited representative did not doubt the technical ability of Italian electronics experts to read-out the pulses , but without access to the particular code being used the whole effort would be useless . |
| 2 | First , it means that there must be some form of cost/benefit analysis , however distasteful it is to assign money values to life or ill-health . |
| 3 | The main findings of the Scottish Office report ‘ Driver Attitudes to Speed ’ include a number of conclusions which are of relevance to local authorities : |
| 4 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 5 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 6 | Dun expects at least 20% of its 14,000 customers worldwide to downsize their computer operations to Unix systems . |
| 7 | using the same graduate assistants to administer the rating scales to student respondents personally . |
| 8 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 9 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 10 | And the government was content to push the Bill through the Commons without the allocation of more Parliamentary time to it , despite the fact that it was a more substantial and complicated measure thanks to government intervention . |
| 11 | To put computer images to work , they need to be divided into two categories . |
| 12 | Employee Attitudes to Relocation |
| 13 | They recommend a strong , constructive personnel policy , including a structured management philosophy covering rules of conduct relating to the employment life cycle from recruitment , through continued education , performance evaluation , promotion , mandatory annual vacation , and employment termination , covering all employees from data entry operators to management information systems directors . |
| 14 | Appraisals of their Specially Promoted Programmes , Co-operative Research Grants and Teaching Companies Schemes , the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme , and the balance between academic research and industrial research on materials technology have been completed , as well as an assessment of the effectiveness of the Council 's efforts to transfer knowledge of the results of its research projects to industry . |
| 15 | It is an impressive selection with its choice ranging from Moroccan , Mandarin and Russian eating houses to Greek , Swiss and Turkish establishments . |
| 16 | These range from three-way discussions with Development Advisers through repeat competences to action learning sets . |
| 17 | Third , a switch by car drivers to cycling , which is what we campaign for , would clearly benefit the majority of NFC employees by reducing car-induced congestion . |
| 18 | Contest winners to lunch with Queen |
| 19 | Perinatal mortality rates by place of delivery , however , showed substantial differences between general practitioner units ( 3.3/1000 ) and consultant units ( 9.4–12.6/1000 ) because of the selective referral of high risk women from general practitioner units to consultant units . |
| 20 | There were reports and letters to write , tape recordings to family , schools and churches to finish . |
| 21 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 22 | Capital charges will therefore impact on the distribution of revenue funds to health authorities . |
| 23 | David Roper , marketing executive , said : ‘ Car exhaust emissions are a major source of lead pollution in the atmosphere , which can have long term effects to health , particularly young children . |
| 24 | Large tanks permitted the Sprinters to run longer ( up to 1,000 miles ) between the need to refuel , and maintenance visits to home depots were reduced from the two or three times weekly of older DMUs to fortnightly . |
| 25 | At a molar ratio of 2:1 ( DNA:protein ) , where the ratio of recognition sites to protein is 4:1 , all the endonuclease will be bound to available sites . |
| 26 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 27 | If the historical trajectory of the Scrapbook is followed ( SI through Fluxus , Heatwave , King Mob , Jamie Reid , Vivienne Westwood , and the Sex Pistols ) the Situationist role for the intellectual as an informed but passionate critic gives way to philistine incitements to violence ( typified by King Mob in Britain , the Motherfuckers in the USA , and also indirectly the punk phenomenon ) but more commonly a laidback and philosophically weak critique of everyday life . |
| 28 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 29 | This phase was characterised by a series of events , the more important of which included : cementation and replacement by anhydrite , which accompanied the dehydration of adjacent gypsum formations to anhydrite ; leaching and calcitisation of dolomite in response to decarboxylation of organic matter ( late leaching ) ; and cementation and replacement by halite , triggered by mobilisation of underlying salt deposits ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 30 | The Securities and Investments Board has issued consultative paper 65 , Proposed Rule Changes to Address Extension of Permitted Marketing Activities by UK Firms in the US , which is necessary to allow UK firms to utilise the extension granted by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission . |