Example sentences of "to [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 2 | Deepening concern that Labour could form the next government at Westminster provides a potent message for the billboards which other parties , with links to neither of the two main protaganists , can not match : ‘ Vote Kennedy to keep Kinnock out . ’ |
| 3 | Prussia however had access to neither of these as a way of financing industrial change . |
| 4 | ‘ That you ca n't , because I 'm mother to neither of you . |
| 5 | Simply to say that postnominal attributives are reduced relatives gives an answer to neither of our questions ( p. 43 ) . |
| 6 | In the Northern statelet , the power of the main protestant churches at present remains subordinate to that of the fundamentalists and the religious political societies . |
| 7 | It is important to note that in 1912–14 the protestant — loyalist group saw their right to violence as prior to that of the official state . |
| 8 | He used the columns of the Irish Times to inform Roman catholic consciences of permitted interpretations of state divorce on the grounds of religious liberty , interpretations which were diametrically opposed to that of the Irish bishops . |
| 9 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 10 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 11 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 12 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 13 | To some extent the same idea of an onlooker applies to that of Jaeger , the critic in Enigma Variations . |
| 14 | Dorabella 's playfulness is similar to that of Natalia 's ward , Vera , when she first dances in A Month in the Country , . |
| 15 | Her shy confession of love is in deep contrast to that of Natalia , who can not wait to show that her emotions are fully aroused when left alone with the same man . |
| 16 | Character and/or National styles of ballet can be linked in some ways to that of demi - caractère . |
| 17 | The review adds : ‘ What we now seek is a DTI which will have an equal , if not superior status , to that of the Treasury . ’ |
| 18 | They should also be given permission to issue some form of fixed interest profit-related bond , be allowed to raise a proportion of their equity direct from the public and be subject to independent regulation similar to that of privatised utilities . |
| 19 | It drains humanity of its humour , reduces adults ' behaviour to that of petulant children . |
| 20 | The statement accused the government of ‘ brute neo-fascism comparable only to that of South Africa ’ . |
| 21 | Earlier , Mr Mutambara had accused the regime of ‘ neo-fascism , comparable only to that of South Africa ’ , adding that the university was ‘ the last island of democracy ’ in the country . |
| 22 | In a speech to the Senate on Thursday night , Senator Jesse Helms compared the US performance to that of ‘ the keystone cops ’ . |
| 23 | The governments ' main complaint is that for the Commission 's plan to work , a special clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue levied in the country of export which would be owing to that of import - where the product would be consumed . |
| 24 | Shoppers approaching what LET have named The Galleries from New Street and High Street will be channeled along a brand new street flanked by granite and stone-clad pseudo-Classical shops and offices , entering the new mall under a vast glazed dome , second in diameter only to that of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 25 | Colombia does not have a consumption problem comparable to that of the US or Europe . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 27 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 28 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
| 29 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 30 | For the Canadian model to work , a unitary electorate analogous to that of the UK is required . |