Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 32 | However , despite television 's growing importance as a source of information , regular readers of newspapers continue to attach a great deal of weight to the print medium ( Table 1.2(b) ) . |
| 33 | Our Journal which is available at a yearly subscription of £35.00 , which gives a great deal of information to the members and consumers . |
| 34 | Leftist Unity is targeting its campaign on the big industrial cities , such as Madrid , Barcelona and Valencia , as well as the region of Andalucia , where centuries of serfdom to the local noblemen have left the working class with a strong streak of radicalism . |
| 35 | Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil . |
| 36 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 37 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 38 | Stewart , who was responsible for introducing totally new methods of preparation to the England squad , devoted the whole of Sunday morning to coaching techniques . |
| 39 | Romaine 's extension of the quantitative methods of sociolinguistics to the study of variation in relative clause marking in sixteenth-century written texts suggests an approach to the relationship between variation and change different from any we have discussed so far ( Romaine 1982b ) . |
| 40 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 41 | For the parents there 's gratitude for the speed of response to the disaster . |
| 42 | I bade Jamie and his mother goodnight and walked on through the outskirts of town to the track heading for the island , then down the track in blackness , sometimes using my small torch , towards the bridge and the house . |
| 43 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 44 | Sixteen pubs and a nightclub are taking part in the scheme , being regarded as a preventive measure rather than replacing the normal reporting of incidents to the police . |
| 45 | The combined offices of Clerk to the Council and Clerk of the Signet at the Council in the Marches brought in £900 per annum in fees towards the end of the century . |
| 46 | According to Dr John Pethick , a coastal geomorphologist at Hull University , the best solution is to avoid building in the worst-affected areas , and to compensate landowners for loss of land to the sea . |
| 47 | Thus payments to the government cause loss of liquidity to the banking system as a whole . |
| 48 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 49 | ‘ The complexities of childcare often drive qualified women to take a low-skilled but undemanding and convenient local job resulting sometimes in personal frustration and always in a loss of skills to the economy . |
| 50 | The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease . |
| 51 | A loss of adjustment to the 24-hour day |
| 52 | The fitting of non-aerated or aerated low-flow shower heads could halve that consumption without loss of amenity to the consumer . ’ |
| 53 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 54 | Our modes of dress and consequent loss of deference to the rigidities of rank and other previously respected apparatus of the hierarchical system were all influenced . |
| 55 | The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses . |
| 56 | Water from the River Jordan would be diverted for irrigation , and the loss of water to the Dead Sea would be compensated for with sea water from the Mediterranean . |
| 57 | October by the French , at Agincourt , with fearful loss of life to the French troops , and Henry V became a legend . |
| 58 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 59 | Parents were reluctant for them to leave home too early — particularly because of the loss of income to the family budget that would ensue — and there was a fear also of the independent youth culture with its sexual rituals , such as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , public courting areas where youth proudly proclaimed both its independence and sexuality . |
| 60 | But nothing was to stem the loss of traffic to the road . |