Example sentences of "to [pron] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The great advantage to them of this approach is that it has a strong one-firm concept , where most of the values arid styles of the consultants are compatible , thus making it potentially easier to integrate as a consultancy team .
2 The whole orderly structure of argument and assumption of course depended on slave-owners seeing the force of and benefit to them of these laws of development .
3 ‘ Whenever you speak to me of this Harry of yours , your face and , indeed , your voice reveal that he is of special importance to you .
4 One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement .
5 When young people form a strong attachment to someone of another race or religion , parents and elders may well express surprise .
6 What the jury has to decide is to which of these breeds McLean belongs .
7 Transrectal ultrasound and MRI should therefore be regarded as the techniques of choice for staging prostatic cancer , but as yet there is no firm agreement as to which of these techniques is the most accurate .
8 To the non-specialist there seems little doubt as to which of these theories provides the correct explanation .
9 I 'm going to introduce this abbreviated momentictiture here in the hope that during the course of the lecture I 'll be able to add comments about which of these factors lead to which of these results .
10 It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) .
11 He may , it is true , exercise his free will as to which of these courses he shall adopt .
12 No refund will be made to you of any instalment paid .
13 No refund will be made to you of any instalment paid .
14 This help will include the provision of translation services , communications with authorities and others in foreign resorts , the recommending of foreign lawyers ( if needed ) , explanation of procedures to be followed and the notification to you of any time limits , subject to our spending on all such activities on behalf of yourself and your party a maximum of £5,000 in total .
15 He had answers to none of these questions and no spirit left to force himself to think about them .
16 His annuity was first raised to 100 marks ( £66 13s. 4d. ) , assigned on the lordship of Haverford , and then on 20 August 1385 replaced by a grant for life to him of that lordship .
17 He made no approaches to her of that kind .
18 If she does so and the husband purchases the replacement house for her , and she occupies it on the same terms , a subsequent transfer to her of that house will not be within the terms of the concession ( see p18 ) because that house will never have been a matrimonial home .
19 When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste .
20 Darlington Wildlife Group will form part of the Durham Wildlife Trust network and is open to anyone of any age .
21 Harold Wilson himself had emphasised publicly that he would ban the export to it of all arms except the minimum necessary for self-defence against foreign aggression .
22 Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension .
23 Why should we agree to anything of that sort ?
24 This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions .
25 Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’
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