Example sentences of "of [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 2 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 3 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 4 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 5 | In fact , an incurious person might travel from one end of them to the other without seeing a single shrub . |
| 6 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 7 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 8 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 9 | The cultural and psychological elaboration of these various motives of course raises difficulties for any simple relation of them to the biological . |
| 10 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 11 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 12 | If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session . |
| 13 | Making an effort , Albert told Bella where they were going , and she sent a pair of children 's ski mitts ahead of them to the pension . |
| 14 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 15 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 16 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
| 17 | The chief constable must make his objections within 21 days of the receipt by him of the notice , and must , on lodging objections , send a copy of them to the secretary of the club . |
| 18 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 19 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 20 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 21 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 22 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 24 | He gazed from the one of them to the other in anguish . |
| 25 | And me dad , he made three anyhow , course there 'd be non of them to the for they were wood . |
| 26 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 27 | Give it some of that' or ’ We 've got Sabrina on next weeks show , and you do n't get many of them to the pound , eh boys ? ’ |
| 28 | Holly-jack waved , then pointed ahead of them to the north . |
| 29 | I made a gift of them to the lad , did n't I ? |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |