Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many clients like to shop around before they commit themselves to a solicitor and like to feel that they can find something out about you before they are committed to the payment of fees . |
| 2 | If Richmond bureau , which is seriously committed to the use of computers for the purpose , can extract only partial data from clients , bureaux that are less convinced of its value are likely to obtain a very sparse picture of their clients using this method . |
| 3 | Many young men were attracted to the profession of arms for its own sake , and the excitement and glory of successful war were reasons in themselves for service , but some at least of those who engaged with a captain may have been responding to pressures at home and in the local economy rather than to the material incentives that war offered . |
| 4 | Added to the myriad of combinations available , the ink intensity can be varied ( by five levels ) . |
| 5 | Tony Adams and Nigel Clough were added to the contingent of players resting minor knocks . |
| 6 | advising the secretary of state on the selection of buildings for inclusion in the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest , on the monuments to be added to the schedule of monuments of national importance , and on the designation of areas of archaeological importance ; |
| 7 | To the traditional tasks of improving the climate in which members practice and provide them with support was added to the development of policies in fields such as housing , planning , energy and the environment and community architecture . |
| 8 | Detail is added to the block of flats on the right hand side , and more yacht masts and rigging are indicated behind the boats in the middle distance . |
| 9 | Furthermore , psychologists have added to the mistrust of children 's ability to explain by publishing studies which show that their explanations are often inappropriate to the phenomenon in question ( e.g. , Piaget , 1929 , 1930 ) . |
| 10 | In fact , however , their very rarity served only to make the procedure arbitrary in the extreme and , indeed , may have added to the reluctance of owners to offer land for development at all . |
| 11 | Where the terms of a settlement are so framed that a clearly defined person can benefit ( for example if the class of beneficiaries includes ‘ any spouse of the settlor ’ or ‘ spouse of the settlor 's children' ) or such persons could be added to the class of beneficiaries , then the settlor will be treated as having an ‘ interest ’ in the trust . |
| 12 | Dealers reacted to the details positively , the telecommunication giant 's shares surging 11p to 424p on a buoyant day on the London market where about £3 billion was added to the value of shares as the FTSE index soared 23.7 to 2885.5 . |
| 13 | The Smoke Detectors Act 1991 has recently been added to the list of statutes which will make it compulsory for builders to fit a smoke detector ( or detectors ) in all new dwellings . |
| 14 | A dismal picture , especially when eastern Germany 's crumbling transport network and malfunctioning telephones are added to the list of woes . |
| 15 | It should perhaps , like type B hepatitis , be added to the list of diseases that are often or even usually passed on in this way . |
| 16 | THE IAAF have sidelined a recommendation that long distance road races , including the marathon , should be added to the list of events at which official world records are ratified . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is worth reiterating that notation is added to the list of subjects that comprise the schedules of a classification scheme after the subjects to be included and their order have been settled . |
| 18 | If the manager accepts the SSR , then the package and specified range of versions are added to the list of modules to which the SSR refers . |
| 19 | When accepting the SSR , the user must specify a range of modules for which the SSR is relevant , after which the package and specified range of versions are added to the list of modules to which the SSR refers . |
| 20 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 21 | The way young children 's bodies are handled , the way their bodily needs are attended to , and the physical ambience of this early intimacy prepare the ground for feelings encountered later in life , when genital maturity allows sexual expression to be added to the repertoire of ways of relating and communicating . |
| 22 | The Right has prompted the Left to ponder that perhaps capitalism and democracy have come to the parting of ways ; perhaps there is more life in the democratic road to socialism than many have chosen to suppose ; and so perhaps there are things that need to be defended and advanced from within the British constitution itself . |
| 23 | An exception to this might arise if a young fan has , as a Novice , shown special merit which has come to the attention of others . |
| 24 | A farmer from Hereford has come to the aid of children at a Romanian Orphange . |
| 25 | While they still maintain feminist art history should raise ‘ fundamental questions for art history as a humanist discipline ’ , they do not believe feminist art history should be confined to the documentation of women artists ( as a form of additive history ) . |
| 26 | The main target for the Auld Report 's criticisms was the LEA because it had interpreted its responsibilities in terms largely confined to the provision of resources . |
| 27 | But the introduction and implementation of quality should not be confined to the design of products and the standard of service provided to customers . |
| 28 | Most of the sub-seneschals were Gascons , and self-government was allowed to develop in their jurisdictions , intervention by the seneschal of Gascony being largely confined to the adjudication of disputes . |
| 29 | It may be that a gene 's effects , as a matter of fact , turn out to be confined to the succession of bodies in which the gene sits . |
| 30 | The first cases were reported to the Board of Guardians from Renhold , Kempston , Thurleigh , and St. Cuthbert 's in the town . |