Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no concessions to sentimentality either in the 1966 performance of Franck 's D minor Symphony which is coupled with Schumann 's Piano Concerto featuring Annie Fischer as soloist ( ) . |
| 2 | For example , Lloyd 's Register surveyors invariably decline to be nominated as experts to determine technical disputes during construction , for this very reason ; and the parties usually refer disputes to arbitration rather than expert determination . |
| 3 | He must be at least six feet two , she decided confusedly , wondering why those blue eyes turned her legs to jelly so quickly . |
| 4 | Despite all of these bad aspects to life here I love this place , Donald . |
| 5 | He lowered his own head again , allowing his lips to pressure gently over her face , seeking their pleasure over the rise and fall of her face and neck . |
| 6 | There would appear to be scope for institutions and policy makers to reduce barriers to participation particularly for the financially disadvantaged . |
| 7 | Second , although the government has tried to open up the supply side to competition , barriers to entry still exist both in terms of medical personnel and hospital construction . |
| 8 | Physical barriers to integration often receive much publicity . |
| 9 | The fear which before had turned Owen 's limbs to water now suddenly galvanised him . |
| 10 | Roach south of Leeds , good nets to caster upstream of Thwaits weir at Stourton . |
| 11 | Yeah , can you take these two cups to dad please darling ? |
| 12 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 13 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 14 | BABY-SITTER Joyce Cotton had to call the fire brigade when she got stuck in her own front room after putting her twin grandchildren to bed upstairs . |
| 15 | This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday . |
| 16 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 17 | It 's only another three , four weeks to Christmas now in any case . |
| 18 | They should be encouraged to make their questions more probing , and their contributions to discussion more closely reasoned . |
| 19 | I could n't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater . |
| 20 | There are drawbacks to injection too , Mr Hann points out . |
| 21 | Perhaps they did n't take things to heart so much . |
| 22 | ‘ We have other morsels to bag tonight ! ’ |
| 23 | These apparent pointers to evolution only demonstrated the folly of those who accepted them , thus vindicating the superiority of God 's plan . |
| 24 | It would therefore like to see a shift in priorities to prevention rather than substitute care . |
| 25 | Questions about equal access to services and equal rights to treatment also raise important issues about the value of particular interventions . |
| 26 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 27 | ‘ It [ the UK government ] could only provide substantial extra resources to industry either by cutting public spending elsewhere or by raising taxes or by increased borrowing … |
| 28 | Users wanting to upgrade their VAX machines to Alpha simply take out their VAX board and slip in an Alpha one . |
| 29 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 30 | The fact that many people have attributed therapeutic properties to amber probably stems from its electrical qualities — for instance , when rubbed it will attract straw or paper . |