Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 2 | ‘ When I presented my collection of Birds to the Zoological Society , Mr Gould kindly undertook to furnish me with descriptions of the new species and names of those already known . |
| 3 | Partly because the sense of sight is the sense most extensively used in the practice of science , and partly for convenience , I will restrict my discussion of observation to the realm of seeing . |
| 4 | MY party of visitors to the new Museum of Liverpool Life were less than impressed with the Brookside exhibit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the late afternoon Angel Clare offered to drive the waggon with its buckets of milk to the station . |
| 7 | As the final item of business in the parliament of 1555 , the queen 's advocate got up to present her act of revocation to the regent and the three estates , signed with Mary 's own hand and sealed with her privy seal at Fontainebleau on 25 April . |
| 8 | Possible worlds vary in their degree of resemblance to the actual world . |
| 9 | We follow Booth ( 1984a ) in allowing for individuals to be differentiated by their degree of commitment to the union movement , and we also follow Naylor ( 1989 , 1990 ) and Naylor and Cripps ( 1989 ) in allowing for individual 's utility gain from following the social custom to be moderated according to their degree of commitment to the union movement . |
| 10 | We follow Booth ( 1984a ) in allowing for individuals to be differentiated by their degree of commitment to the union movement , and we also follow Naylor ( 1989 , 1990 ) and Naylor and Cripps ( 1989 ) in allowing for individual 's utility gain from following the social custom to be moderated according to their degree of commitment to the union movement . |
| 11 | The Senat ( parliament ) of Berlin is expected to give its stamp of approval to the decision so that the merger can go ahead . |
| 12 | Although very much part of the probation service generally they are operationally responsible to the Governor for their period of secondment to the prison and this uncomfortable structural position — with one foot each side of the prison wall — brings both problems and opportunities . |
| 13 | I should like to thank Edward and Peter for their years of service to the Diocese and to wish them a long and happy retirement . |
| 14 | The Assembly , which began its discussions in August [ see pp. 38379-80 ] , asked the government to extend its period of deliberation to the end of March 1992 . |
| 15 | Hot springs and fiery eruptions , the usual attendants upon earthquakes , lent their contributions of confusion to the scene . |
| 16 | Japan on March 13 provided the Gulf Peace Fund with $8,600 million in accordance with its pledge of aid to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war . |
| 17 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |
| 18 | If the Central Authority had delegated its powers of generation to the area distribution boards , they would , in effect , have become integrated power boards . |
| 19 | Reading that wealth of images had tested her powers of concentration to the utmost , yet this act of unremitting self-scrutiny had left her more energized than exhausted , for much of critical importance had emerged . |
| 20 | The queen and Mortimer , however , persisted in their policy of concession to the end . |
| 21 | At present , the prosecution in criminal trials had to ‘ lay bare its store of knowledge to the defence ’ whereas defence need not reciprocate . |
| 22 | The subcommittee approved a Legco voting system under which legislation would require the approval of three separate groups of members , distinguished by their mode of selection to the council . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom sharply increased its volume of exports to the United States in the 1980s , when the dollar gyrated wildly . |
| 24 | Surrey ambulance staff have always been justifiably proud of their quality of delivery to the community . |
| 25 | Yes , I made a few mistakes at first , like cutting up their slices of salami to the thickness of a sliced loaf . |
| 26 | In Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury , four " narrators " take it in turn to present their vision of events to the reader . |
| 27 | If species were indeed fixed , then their state of adaptation to the environment would gradually break down as the conditions were changed by geological forces . |
| 28 | He saw their referral of cases to the SMG as a further way of undermining him , and he was determined to fight back . |
| 29 | From 1981 onwards , the University Grants Committee attempted to introduce a greater degree of selectivity into its allocation of funds to the universities . |
| 30 | Many of the supporters were eager to put their points of view to the waiting journalists . |