Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 2 | So next day when the heralds returned , Keith made such offer , adding that he must be allowed to inform the Regent of this for it to be effective . |
| 3 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 4 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 5 | Smoking is bad news from every direction — from being damaging to your health and the health of those around you to being smelly and totally antisocial . |
| 6 | But the centres which were the linchpin of the movement were criticized both for erring too much on the side of prevention — tackling such issues as racism , poverty and education in the communities served , and for doing too little prevention , this arising from the affiliation of most of them to general and mental hospitals . |
| 7 | The number of funded vacancies may be insufficient for all of them to be offered full-time posts . |
| 8 | Kim Chernin , in her book Womansize : The Tyranny of Slenderness ( The Women 's Press , 1981 ) talks about compulsive eating , and the pressure on all of us to be/keep slim . |
| 9 | That being so , will my right hon. Friend seek with his Community partners to reactivate the Venice declaration which seems to many of us to be the only likely forum within which positive political action can be taken ? |
| 10 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 11 | about any of it to be quite honest . |
| 12 | From experience , and depending on the species selected , it has been found that with these numbers of large cichlids all present in the same tank , there is not the space for any of them to be able to establish a permanent territory and fight off all invaders . |
| 13 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 14 | ‘ However , there is no need for any of it to be sold . |
| 15 | There was no real need for both of them to be here . |
| 16 | One easy way of finding an acceptable language is for both of you to separately say or write down words you are happy with and words you do n't like . |
| 17 | And I feel if now we deny ourselves our greatest delight and say our love alone shall make us strong , our strength shall not depend on anything but our love then indeed I think we shall be creating an independence of each other , which can only make our binding sympathy more perfect … . for the present , for the 14 months before I am 21 then I have after much real thought , much consideration decided that it would be best for both of us to be separated … |
| 18 | Most other components simply are not offered in tested packs , or if they are , the cost is likely to be too high for most of us to be able to give them serious consideration . |
| 19 | This , however , was seen by some of them to be an unreliable criterion . |
| 20 | The US citizen 's historic right to bear arms , for example , is thought by most of them to be both outdated and counter-productive , yet it was taken by the founding fathers to be ‘ self-evident ’ , inherently the due of human beings . |