Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 2 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 3 | The function of their role we see as being , like that of the deviant in relation to society , the visible demonstration of the limits to ‘ legitimate ’ action . |
| 4 | The FSX 's predecessor , the Mitsubishi Fl , reminded Japanese firms of the limits to their aircraft-engineering skills . |
| 5 | All the journalists need in the way of facilities are typewriters , telephones , and copies of the papers to be presented at the meeting . |
| 6 | As to strand 2 — the north-south strand — of the talks to which the Secretary of State referred , the new Taoiseach announced that articles 2 and 3 would be on the table , and we all understand that . |
| 7 | The appeal of the games to particularly young boys may be in the fact that a lot of the games are all about some little guy fighting and eventually conquering a large evil monster . |
| 8 | Over-exposure of the embryos to the low pH will result in lysis of some or all of the cells within minutes . |
| 9 | When GATT was formed in 1948 China had been among the founder members , but its membership had lapsed after the withdrawal of the nationalists to Taiwan . |
| 10 | But because of the short time since the Edinburgh summit , few of the projects to be offered money are new . |
| 11 | Are your accounting policies shown at the beginning of the notes to the accounts ? |
| 12 | To use the jargon , federalism means extending the competence of the Euro-institutions to defence , foreign , immigration and asylum , social , and economic policies — the bread and butter issues of our politics are to be removed from this Parliament and transferred to Brussels . |
| 13 | This letter provides details of the resolutions to be proposed at the meeting along with the formal notice calling it and a proxy card to enable you to cast your vote at it . |
| 14 | Those 11 votes include the names of the persons to whom the hon. and learned Friend referred . |
| 15 | A limited number of copies were produced , each copy was numbered and a record was kept of the persons to whom the copy was issued . |
| 16 | Others have moved from the older , nineteenth century houses of the twilight zones around the centres of the towns to new estates on the edges of the towns or to other towns in the region . |
| 17 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 18 | Walkers can also extend the excursion by continuing from Heiligenschwendi downhill in a southerly direction on the edge of the woods to Oberhofen on the lakeside ( approximately 40 minutes ) . |
| 19 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |
| 20 | A course in the history of science would lead those students of the humanities to a better understanding of the nature of science ; it would also give scientists a better understanding of the place of science in the history of culture . |
| 21 | Puzzling pines and poorly potatoes are just a couple of the problems to be solved by our team of BBC experts this month |
| 22 | To the extent that the rescues were ideologically inspired and the businesses ideologically managed , then at best the ideology distracted attention from the true nature of the problems to be faced , and at worst served as an excuse for purporting to resolve them by decisions which were patently perverse . |
| 23 | Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise . |
| 24 | The savings resulting from the administrative efficiency of the new system will largely be dissipated by the effects of the problems to which I referred . |
| 25 | Is that not a very good illustration of the problems to which misuse of the guillotine to ram legislation through the House and the country can lead ? |
| 26 | Both start with inputs in the form of market needs and company objectives which must be converted into clear definitions of the problems to be solved to create a product supplying the market need in a manner profitable to the company . |
| 27 | And , given its tradition , one of the problems to which this effort was first directed was toward the understanding of voting behaviour and the prediction of election results . |
| 28 | Although there is some good material in the report on Harris Tweed it stand up less well than some of the others to the passage of time . |
| 29 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 30 | The foundation of a company 's power is its control over property , and the claim of the members to be entitled to exercise that power or to delegate it to representatives rests on their rights as owners . |