Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Risks to the fetus increase slightly after 42 weeks ’ gestation but women having labour induced are more likely to have instrumental deliveries or babies with low Apgar scores . |
| 2 | And those with their ears to the dressing-room wall have yet to report rumbles . |
| 3 | The Salisbury Steam Laundry had just taken a delivery of fuel and the covers to the boiler room were open . |
| 4 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 5 | U2 's rehearsals for their US stadium tour drew thousands of fans to the parking lot of Hershey Stadium , Pennsylvania . |
| 6 | The Warsaw Province Prosecutor 's Office announced on Aug. 7 the arrest of five people — including senior officials at state banks — accused of illegal activities causing serious losses to the state treasury and of falsifying documents . |
| 7 | The report predicted that the direct effects on farming would include destruction of 80,000 hectares of coastal rubber plantations in Malaysia , and substantial losses to the shrimp industry of Thailand — currently the world 's largest shrimp producer . |
| 8 | Signals to the dressing room , see what comes of that . |
| 9 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 10 | The chest strap ( comfortable to wear when running ) contains a transmitter which sends signals to the wrist strap . |
| 11 | These changes in turn provide signals to the cell nucleus , which results in the activation , first of a number of immediate early genes , and later the genes required for the synthesis of new synaptic membrane constituents , especially glycoproteins . |
| 12 | The dendrites of the cell , on the other hand , are the fibres that receive the signals from the axons of other neurones , carrying those signals to the cell body . |
| 13 | In this system the microprocessor outputs are the phase control signals to the motor drive circuits ( Fig. 8.1 ) and all three control functions are performed by the microprocessor program . |
| 14 | Apply by letter with CV and two referees to the Administration Division , AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research , Rothamsted Experimental Station , Harpenden , Herts AL JQ , and quoting the appropriate reference No by 8 March 1991 . |
| 15 | We presented these demands to the estate administrator but he ignored them . |
| 16 | On 24 October its forces rebuffed efforts by the government to close Bolshevik newspapers and seal bridges linking working-class districts to the city centre . |
| 17 | Similarly , although Wirral GPs notified an exceptionally large number of drug addicts to the Home Office during 1983 , the significance of this was not quickly identified even by regional Drugs Branch . |
| 18 | The Test and County Cricket Board yesterday rejected trips to the Diamond Jubilee in Calcutta — in which most of the Test-playing countries are likely to be involved — and the Sharjah Championship Trophy in the Gulf . |
| 19 | After months of trips to the Dahran air base in the war for Kuwait , the journey 's become distinctly routine . |
| 20 | I would n't want to prompt their disapproval and anger , so I try to eat less and my trips to the biscuit tin become fewer , or more sneaky . |
| 21 | I think he needs constant trips to the loo grandma |
| 22 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 23 | On those weekend trips to the garden centre , have you ever longed for a car that is stylish , luxurious and spacious ? |
| 24 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ said Francis , raising his eyes to the peeling ceiling . |
| 25 | The scratchplate draws your eyes to the body outline , the outline leads into the cutaway and … well , you get the idea . |
| 26 | Recruits to the rebel cause were also thought to include students and survivors of the failed 1985 uprising led by Brig. |
| 27 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 28 | However , as a resource of what is a question in a flagging economy which is unlikely in the near future to be in search of recruits to the labour force from marginal groups , as it was in the days of labour shortage in the 1950s ( Harper and Thane , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | provide clear guidelines to the workplace supervisor in order that the student may experience the conditions necessary to overtake the requirements for the successful completion of the module . |
| 30 | ( d ) Statutory guidelines Supplementary guidelines to the reasonableness test are included in Sched 2 to the 1977 Act . |