Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good example of a positive symptom is the spasticity that occurs after some forms of damage to the motor system . |
| 2 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
| 3 | They also offered a few words of comfort to those who may have been encouraged by the church to believe their lifestyles were sinful : ‘ We can assure lesbians and gays of heaven . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 5 | I am glad of the opportunity to offer a few words of introduction to this , our latest prospectus . |
| 6 | After its recognition in 1936 and its description as a clinical entity in 1938 , the prognosis has improved from a few months of life to a median age of survival of over 20 years . |
| 7 | It was the only institution which was able to keep alive the sense of national identity during three and a half centuries of subjugation to foreign rule , which stretched between the fall of Smederovo in 1459 and the revolt of Karadjordje in 1804 . |
| 8 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
| 9 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 10 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 11 | A practical lexicographer , however , would probably draw his line in a different place from ours : he might well argue that phrases such as fish and chips , bread and butter , etc. , while undoubtedly slightly opaque in the technical sense , present few problems of interpretation to speakers familiar with the normal constituent meanings of the parts , and are thus not worth listing . |
| 12 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 13 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 14 | Derek Smith , the British businessman imprisoned last month after he tried to sell five and half pounds of uranium to Greece 's Nuclear Research Centre , was yesterday set free on bail , writes Helena Smith from Athens . |
| 15 | The Association Newsletter deals with some items of interest to BCRS members , viz : — |
| 16 | We can therefore attribute some similarities of grammar to universal properties of language , whether spoken or signed . |
| 17 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 18 | People usually make such declarations of opposition to other lineages , other tribes — not to entities which claim superiority . |
| 19 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 20 | Such explanations of allegiance to the state and to charismatic patriarchal figures are in themselves too vague in this generalised form . |
| 21 | 3.10 References to any right of the Landlord to have access to the Premises shall be construed as extending to any superior Landlord and any mortgagee of the Premises and to all persons authorised by the Landlord and any superior Landlord or mortgagee ( including agents professional advisers contractors workmen and others ) [ where such superior lease or mortgage grants such rights of access to the superior Landlord or mortgagee ] |
| 22 | If this is the kind of filtering we require then we must develop an architecture which allows such changes of activity to be constantly monitored and responded to by the higher levels . |
| 23 | The answer is that we can , without using intuition , speculation or hearsay concerning Z , prove that Z , C and M are logical consequences of the axioms A1 through to I. Now whilst algebraists do not regard it as their prime duty to reduce all such sets of axioms to a minimum size , it is part of an algebraist 's function to investigate consequences of axioms such as those just referred to . |
| 24 | A pledge is a security upon goods created by the actual transfer of the possession of the goods themselves , or of such documents of title to goods as bills of lading , but without the conveyance of any legal ownership . |
| 25 | If single cells are required subject these pairs of blastomeres to a second cycle of disaggregation as previously described . |
| 26 | Dolphins will also come to the defence of each other in fighting off an attacker or threat , and they are ready to extend these forms of rescue to humans in distress . |
| 27 | For one group ( A-L/B in the table ) these sessions of exposure to B followed habituation training in A , whereas for the other group ( B/A-L ) they preceded habituation training , which itself immediately preceded the test . |
| 28 | By now there were fewer paeans of praise to fecundity in the magazines ; instead they were asking ‘ Why Young Mothers Feel Trapped ’ ( Redbook ) or , with more than a hint of desperation , offering ‘ 58 Ways To Make Your Marriage More Exciting ’ ( Newsweek ) , Graduate wives complained bitterly , especially in the Guardian , of living like cabbages . |
| 29 | Now that you have read a little about the method why not get out the extension rails and apply these pieces of information to some lace making ? |
| 30 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |