Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William 's grandad had been a surrogate father to both of them and some small counterweight to the preponderance of nans and aunts and mothers . |
| 2 | The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago . |
| 3 | As we have seen , this gain is a loss to the welfare of consumers in the country to which they are exporting , and the cartel would , therefore , presumably be disallowed by an international competition authority . |
| 4 | A number of meetings were held throughout April and May 1990 between Brooke and James Molyneaux , leader of the ( Official ) Ulster Unionist Party ( OUP ) , and the Rev. Ian Paisley , leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) , and between Brooke and Gerard Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , as a prelude to the opening of talks on new arrangements for the exercising of political power within Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Macmillan likened the privatization programme to the reaction of individuals or estates when they run into difficulties . |
| 6 | At the meeting the USA was almost isolated in its opposition to the resumption of loans to Vietnam . |
| 7 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 8 | Conservative Protestant Christians may pursue what is a rather different Christology which issues in opposition to the ordination of women . |
| 9 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 10 | There is a loose connection between men , forest and spirits , and they stand in collective opposition to the world of women which centres on the villages and the clearings . |
| 11 | The Soviet aversion to this multilateral arrangement and the apparent Soviet-preference to deal bilaterally with Vietnam , Laos and Kampuchea reflects the Soviet opposition to the creation of blocs outside Soviet control , even if the blocs are constituted of states they accept as ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 12 | Arafat committed the PLO to supporting the Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2 , 1990 , despite objections from Egypt that this would undermine the PLO 's long-standing opposition to the acquisition of territories by force , and would also rule out any immediate prospect of resuming the US-PLO dialogue [ see also p. 37637 ] . |
| 13 | Referring to barristers ' opposition to the extension of rights of audience , he said Lord Mackay had withstood enormous pressures . |
| 14 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia — for many years the most reformist of the CMEA countries — was treated as a pariah by Western governments after the collapse of the Prague Spring and , under the watchful ‘ normalisation ’ of Gustav Husak 's leadership , has preferred economic stagnation to the sort of risks and reforms which could start Western trade flowing again . |
| 16 | In the early 1980s in Britain , the Economic and Social Research Council funded a major research project which lent an official academic seal to the work of individuals concerned . |
| 17 | It extends from the classification of subject-areas and the definition of concepts through the topics and methods of empirical research to the construction of models and theory generally . |
| 18 | Last autumn , without any consultation with the executive director , Professor Nicholas Negroponte , or Papert , control of the centre passed from the Ministry of Research to the Ministry of Communications . |
| 19 | Papert left the centre last autumn after control passed from the Minister of Research to the Ministry of Communications . |
| 20 | " If they are , then it becomes appropriate to learn from those organizations and to apply the theories and findings of organizational research to the running of schools . |
| 21 | Les never made it , but he 's no stranger to the wearing of shorts : the sub is better known as the FRUITBAT , third from the left in the front row of the pic . |
| 22 | What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ? |
| 23 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 24 | The Community 's structure gives far too much weight to the Council of Ministers at the expense of the European Parliament , and most importantly , of the individual citizen . |
| 25 | The temptation to link the change with the disruption to equatorial atmospheric conditions produced by the El Chichon eruption in April is strong , and lends weight to the argument of researchers at the University of East Anglia that the major effect of the volcano on climate occurred soon after the eruption ( see next week 's New Scientist ) . |
| 26 | Most textbooks give greatest weight to the family of theories based on an organic ‘ primeval soup ’ . |
| 27 | To the fore , the two commanders , gazing straight ahead , down the shallow incline to the cluster of buildings amidst the lingering mist at its foot . |
| 28 | MALHAMDALE stretches in a vaguely northwards direction from the gentle swelling lush lands of Craven to the wilderness of Fountains Fell and Malham Moor . |
| 29 | One of Margaret Donaldson 's outstanding qualities is that she is highly adept at encouraging people not only to think and give rein to the excitement of ideas , but also to think critically , and , above all , to think for themselves . |
| 30 | Bishop Rathier of Verona wrote in the 930s that the church was one in all its bishops ; that not Jerusalem , not Rome , not Alexandria , had received a special prerogative of rule to the exclusion of others ( he tucks Rome pointedly into the middle ) . |