Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laurels for criticism went to Thomas McEvilley ‘ for his reasoned way of dealing with such issues as quality , multiculturalism , and modernism/postmodernism ’ . |
| 2 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 3 | Clients should be advised that requests for advice relating to exemption ( other than in straightforward cases ) should be provided by their legal advisers . |
| 4 | Language can not symbolically signal its own meaning but has to be contextually connected to yield indexical meaning , so it follows that some mutually agreed ground rules for co-operation have to be assumed . |
| 5 | The accident has led to new calls for motorway driving to be included in the driving test . |
| 6 | Thus ‘ normative-re-educative ’ strategies for change came to be regarded as important . |
| 7 | The dichotomy between appearance and reality , the continuity of metaphors for usurpation applied to Macbeth , the incredible number of antitheses ( some 400 odd ) : these are aspects of the play that have been well studied in modern criticism , and all show its persistent operation on two linguistic levels . |
| 8 | It seems to reduce tendon swelling and when viewed microscopically , tendon repair seems faster in these cases after surgery compared to those treated by more conventional non-surgical means . |
| 9 | The report , described by the Independent of April 21 as a " damning litany of broken promises and mixed opportunities " , also expressed serious doubts about protection offered to the colony 's judiciary , its legislature and people by the Basic Law , the post-1997 constitution promulgated by China in 1990 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 10 | At present the EEC Nine are around 95–97% self-sufficient in beef production so opportunities for expansion appear to be limited . |
| 11 | Although the same procedural steps for commencement apply to all actions , the form of the request for summons ( if appropriate ) and the summons itself differs according to the type of action . |
| 12 | The control contract must be registered and shareholders have three months after registration to demand to be bought out . |
| 13 | Knowing these sorts of convention seems to be as much part of knowledge of the culture as knowledge of the language . |
| 14 | Not only can you enjoy the beauty of pond plants , but you 'll find all sorts of wildlife attracted to the water . |
| 15 | She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again . |
| 16 | Collinson procured from ‘ my knowing friend Philip Miller ’ sixty-nine sorts of seed to send to Bartram . |
| 17 | The methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous , and putting the finds into a dated sequence often relies heavily on individual judgement , although statistical techniques and computers are nowadays used to handle and control the data . |
| 18 | That means they are stored in in containers which the public have n't got access to and away from any possibility of er naked flames or any other methods of ignition getting to them . |
| 19 | The revolutionary had to spread , methods of teaching had to be discovered — Ponce left no record of his technique — and teachers found . |
| 20 | AGE CONCERN Scotland yesterday called for a public debate on methods of restraint applied to frail elderly people cared for in residential homes or by relatives . |
| 21 | In regional courts like the Councils in the North and the Marches of Wales , bishops might be appointed to the presidency and other clerics could sit upon the bench , but the offices of profit went to laymen . |
| 22 | Little waves of lightning seemed to be flashing out of her eyes . |
| 23 | In England papers of the secretaries of state began to be deposited in the State Paper Office from 1578 . |
| 24 | Michel Rocard ( PS ) Prime Minister Ministers of State Lionel Jospin ( PS ) National Education , Youth and Sport Pierre Bérégovoy ( PS ) Economy , Finance and Budget Roland Dumas ( PS ) Foreign Affairs Michel Durafour ( UDF ) Civil Service and Administrative Reforms Ministers Pierre Arpaillange Keeper of the Seals ; Justice Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( PS ) Defence Pierre Joxe ( PS ) Interior Roger Fauroux European Affairs Michel Delebarre ( PS ) Equipment and Housing ; Transport ; the Sea Jean-Pierre Soisson ( UDF ) Labour , Employment and Vocational Training Jacques Pelletier ( UDF ) Co-operation and Development Jack Lang ( PS ) Culture , Communication , Major Works and the Bicentenary Louis Le Pensec ( PS ) Overseas Departments and Territories Henri Nallet ( PS ) Agriculture and Forestry Paul Quilès ( PS ) Postal Services , Telecommunications and Space Jean Poperen ( PS ) Relations with Parliament Claude Evin ( PS ) Solidarity , Health , Social Protection and Government Spokesperson Hubert Curien ( PS ) Research and Technology Jean-Marie Rausch ( UDF ) Foreign Trade * Excluding Ministers-Delegate , Secretaries of State attached to the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State attached to Ministries . |
| 25 | Michel Rocard ( PS ) Prime Minister Ministers of State Lionel Jospin ( PS ) National Education , Youth and Sport Pierre Bérégovoy ( PS ) Economy , Finance and Budget Roland Dumas ( PS ) Foreign Affairs Michel Durafour ( UDF ) Civil Service and Administrative Reforms Ministers Pierre Arpaillange Keeper of the Seals ; Justice Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( PS ) Defence Pierre Joxe ( PS ) Interior Roger Fauroux European Affairs Michel Delebarre ( PS ) Equipment and Housing ; Transport ; the Sea Jean-Pierre Soisson ( UDF ) Labour , Employment and Vocational Training Jacques Pelletier ( UDF ) Co-operation and Development Jack Lang ( PS ) Culture , Communication , Major Works and the Bicentenary Louis Le Pensec ( PS ) Overseas Departments and Territories Henri Nallet ( PS ) Agriculture and Forestry Paul Quilès ( PS ) Postal Services , Telecommunications and Space Jean Poperen ( PS ) Relations with Parliament Claude Evin ( PS ) Solidarity , Health , Social Protection and Government Spokesperson Hubert Curien ( PS ) Research and Technology Jean-Marie Rausch ( UDF ) Foreign Trade * Excluding Ministers-Delegate , Secretaries of State attached to the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State attached to Ministries . |
| 26 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 27 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 28 | The Heads of State rose to their feet . |
| 29 | Thus the signing of a Heads of Agreement relating to the interconnector , which occurred before the licence came into force , was not subject to the condition but any decision relating to the interconnector taken after March 31 , 1992 , is . |
| 30 | Concentrated solutions of glucose approximate to treacle . |