Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our guiding principle is that pupils with special educational needs should , as far as possible , have the opportunity to experience the full range of the English curriculum , but we make some broad recommendations for modifications to attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements which we feel may nevertheless be necessary . |
| 2 | ( There are , too , some revealing letters from Helen to MacAlister . ) |
| 3 | In the Heinkel , despite the enormous noise , Hess and Edward exchanged a few shouted words from time to time , their faces pressed close together . |
| 4 | Central government retains some direct powers in relation to the police . |
| 5 | Some early issues of concern to piloting centres are also emerging . |
| 6 | This deprived litigants of access to the United States ' courts , although some had cases already pending before the federal courts . |
| 7 | THERE are some real gems of bargains to be had in the old jewellery market claim Bonhams , the London auctioneers . |
| 8 | Erm we 'll have to go through some extra things in relation to it , today so that you 'll be able |
| 9 | This exercise had never had much substance : the government had carried out an ‘ Industrial Inquiry ’ by questionnaire and had collated the results concerning investment trends , production , manpower requirements , expected exports and imports and so on , then used this as a basis for formulating some ambitious forecasts of growth to 1970 . |
| 10 | Some obvious disadvantages in comparison to the paper version lie in the technology dependence . |
| 11 | Chilperic he disliked , in part because of his attitude towards the Church and clergy , despite some remarkable acts of generosity to individual shrines . |
| 12 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 13 | The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed , from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second . |
| 14 | From his approach it is possible to link some eigh-teenth-century forms of recreation to the revised view of nineteenth-century forms recently presented by Dr Cunningham with its greater emphasis on commercial provision for working-class tastes . |
| 15 | Planning has had some two and a half thousand letters of objection to it . |
| 16 | Now , says the breed society secretary , Libby Henson , there are 500 registered breeders with some 3,000 cattle from Orkney to Cornwall and a strong unrequited demand from Germany . |
| 17 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , some important instruments of accountability to Parliament can be identified , although most apply to some quangos and not all . |
| 19 | Editor , — Jane Smith 's editorial on improving health care in London raises some important issues in relation to the London Implementation Group to which I wish to respond . |
| 20 | Owners of Walworth Castle Hotel , near Darlington , will now extend the west wing to provide another 36 bedrooms in addition to the existing 34 . |
| 21 | There are , however , wide variations , ranging from densities of over 200 persons per hectare in some inner wards in London to virtually uninhabited remote moorland areas in Scotland . |
| 22 | One thinks of the change in the course Of the Hwang-ho River in China , which in less than eighty years moved its mouth some 250 miles from way to the south of Shantung on the Yellow Sea up nearly to Tientsin on the Gulf of Pohai . |
| 23 | Some notable examples of success to date include improvements to the terephthalic acid plants ; the development of new surfactants ; major extensions to the resins and acrylics ranges using innovatory polymer systems ; fibres with better finishes ; and work on the hot topic of the replacement of chlorofluorocarbons , claimed by some scientists to damage the earth 's ozone layer . |
| 24 | The RSPB , as part of its ‘ Campaign for the Countryside ’ , has recently called for two and a half million acres of farmland to be taken out of production and converted to wildlife habitats , a process to be paid for by money diverted from CAP into conservation . |
| 25 | The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a vast country , some 1300 miles from north to south and 900 from east to west , inhabited by a great diversity of tribes and races , ranging from camel-owning nomads in the north to naked pagans in the equatorial swamps of the south , and former cannibals in the forests bordering the Congo . |
| 26 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 27 | The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 29 | To say that human beings from time to time have sexual intercourse , and that this is because they have sexual instincts , is as circular as the argument about hunger . |
| 30 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |