Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [noun pl] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not all reference to building surveyors is quite so supportive , clearly this Committee has a new perspective . |
| 2 | Direct access to university libraries is still required for those theses deposited before the individual university began participating in the BLDSC microfilming scheme , and for the very small number of UK universities which do not take part in that scheme . |
| 3 | Moreover , the arrival of COSHH laws means that this type of engineering solution to contamination problems is soon likely to be much in demand . |
| 4 | The antipathy to blood sports is more profound because it is unethical to torment and kill any sentient creature for mere entertainment . |
| 5 | More recently , more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested . |
| 6 | The difficulty of applying life-style to marketing decisions is best illustrated by the " Yuppy " . |
| 7 | Such attention to surface forms is also , of course , necessary for the researcher ; one aspect of the form of English I am using now , and of that used by Labov , Greenfield and Olson , is its attempt at explicitness . |
| 8 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 9 | Similarly , the release of sex hormones in the spring , which stimulates reproduction ( p. 46 ) , also stimulates northward migration , an association that led the biologist J. B. S. Haldane to remark that although ‘ we must be very careful in attributing human motives to animals , the emotion behind migration to breeding places is almost certainly more like human love than hunger or curiosity . ’ |
| 10 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 11 | This risk to promotion chances is well understood and can be clearly illustrated . |
| 12 | The pace of reforms to working practices is also hotting up . |
| 13 | The implication is obviously that over time the proportion of the portfolio devoted to government securities is slowly increasing . |
| 14 | The space given to book reviews is relatively generous from the point of view of a newspaper proprietor , but coverage in relation to what is published is ( with the exception of fiction ) minimal . |
| 15 | On the other hand , every shilling added to pension rates is extremely costly in total … it is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age . ’ |
| 16 | The lesson to chess players is more clear-cut : chess turns out to be a much richer world than they thought . |
| 17 | Moreover , Article 25 's application to sea waybills is less problematic because waybills are generally issued by the actual ocean carriers or their agents . |
| 18 | When it does not spring from mere distaste for all that is foreign , hostility to party lists is commonly associated with obsessive and fatalistic mistrust of political parties themselves . |
| 19 | Also , the proportion of sight to time deposits is very low . |
| 20 | Success in computation relating to time intervals is highly dependent on a number of factors and there fore is variable . |
| 21 | Response to R&D problems is also influenced significantly by social acceptability and cultural effects . |
| 22 | The literature on the input to language learners is now quite extensive ( cf. |