Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] to the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The importance of the role of the sickle cell centre as a source of advice for sufferers and their families and as a centre for dissemination of information to the community can not be overemphasised .
4 Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls .
5 I carried in tray after tray of Whiskas to the Gairloch store .
6 The enrichment of tissue free leucine was also measured using GCMS after conversion of leucine to the N-butyl heptafluorobutyryl isobutyl derivative .
7 imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal .
8 The method of election of members to the Special Reserved Seats has been changed .
9 Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that
10 What is more , he is confident that the process of transfer of power to the central authority of such a state is now well advanced .
11 It 's , it , it is a form of accountability of universities to the public really .
12 the right sort of order of magnitude of allocation to the new settlement , the remainder of the hundred and forty five hectares would be within that ring on that plan .
13 The starting point for this discussion — of the changing division of labour by sectors and by strata , and of the social pattern of recruitment of individuals to the positions within these divisions — was the condition of party politics as the 1960s ended , and in particular the position of the Labour Party , which had forfeited the active support on important sections of its ‘ traditional ’ partisans yet had not apparently suffered a collapse of electoral support ( as indicated by opinion polls before the 1970 election ) .
14 On 20 December he sent six pieces of cloth of gold to the abbess and convent at Fontevrault , which he had recently visited .
15 Acid clearance time was measured in seconds as the interval from the time of instillation of HCl to the time the pH rose to 5 and stayed at or above that level for 60 seconds .
16 Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music .
17 Earlier in this chapter we described the rate of referral of cases to the development officers , and Table 3. 1 shows the size of their case load month by month .
18 For those moving to different countries , there is also the problem of lack of access to the study area — so important for checking findings .
19 For those moving to different countries , there is also the problem of lack of access to the study area — so important for checking findings .
20 I conclude that looking at the matter from the point of view of expense incurred and not from the point of view of loss to the employer no expense could be regarded as having been incurred as a result of the decision of the authorities of the college to provide this particular benefit to the taxpayer .
21 The dissipation is determined by the rate of supply of energy to the cascade by the large eddies and is independent of the dynamics of the small eddies in which the dissipation actually occurs .
22 No evidence was seen of restriction of digestion to the tips of the incisors .
23 The Digital board , which is reviewing its international operation and cutting 25,000 jobs from a worldwide payroll of 102,000 , intends to concentrate its resources on a single computer manufacturing base for ease of access to the European market .
24 Conditions for repayment of resources to the Fund vary according to the facility which has been used , with repayment in the form of SDRs or designated foreign currencies .
25 He attended the World Championships as Head of Delegation to the GB team : ‘ To see Neil win Britain 's first ever medal at this level , competing against gymnasts from the world 's strongest nations , can only go to prove that we 're getting it right , ’ says Paul .
26 They started from the position , in my judgment incorrectly , that the references in Thomas v. University of Bradford to the visitor 's jurisdiction being exclusive meant simply that the court did not have concurrent jurisdiction with him .
27 The large potential private benefits to innovation lead to a high and perhaps excessive level of such innovation — including duplication of effort to the same end , at considerable resource cost .
28 An accurate report should be made of all public transport facilities including ease of access to the nearest railway station , motorway or airport .
29 Nor was it an assessment of homoeopathy alone , but of homoeopathy in combination with avoidance of exposure to the sensitizing organism .
30 I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’
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