Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 2 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 3 | However , this variation is due largely to the rate relief enjoyed by on-zone occupiers rather than to any obvious collapse of the property market outside of the zones . |
| 4 | Opportunities for major fund-raising from other sources are very limited : partly because trust funds usually direct their resources to new short-term projects rather than to longestablished work , and partly because such trusts have been inundated with requests from other agencies suffering from withdrawal of Local Authority grants . |
| 5 | Most choose to go to residential homes rather than to those of their children . |
| 6 | Attention is thereby directed towards qualities and relationships rather than to external aspects such as monetary worth or historical background . |
| 7 | On the whole , we would prefer to dispose of blocks of married quarters to housing associations rather than to local authorities . |
| 8 | It would seem that these few packets were handed out mainly to the neighbours of the field workers rather than to those villagers who actually needed the ORS . |
| 9 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 10 | Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 11 | Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations . |
| 12 | Our plans to spread employee ownership and participation will encourage wages to be set according to the profitability of individual firms rather than to some national ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 13 | The last two components of the model are classical Malthusian approaches , applied to cohorts rather than to whole populations . |
| 14 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 15 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 16 | Colic and ulcers seem to relate more to general stress levels rather than to poor or erratic feeding . |
| 17 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
| 18 | Or is it all an illusion , a phantasm derived from mere figures , a figment of journalistic imagination , an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly , and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one ? |
| 19 | Master Smith may overcome the problem by assigning the interests which he has to his children absolutely or to another trust under which Master Smith can not benefit under any circumstances . |
| 20 | A notable example is found in the attempt ( e.g. Korpi and Shalev 1979 ) to explain the incidence of industrial conflict by reference to the political action of the working class and its representatives rather than to institutional industrial relations features as in Clegg and others ; while Dore 's ( 1973 ) study of Japanese and British factories suggests that variations in the way that capitalist societies order the ‘ world of work ’ are a function of the nature , pace and time scale of industrialization — differences in industrial relations reflect aspects of early or late development . |