Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding his work as Member of Parliament for Abingdon almost to the point of neglect , he helped Amy with every decision and chore . |
| 2 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 3 | It 's a point of honour among lawyers never to be understood . ’ |
| 4 | The United Kingdom plays a full and honourable part , financially and diplomatically , in alleviating the suffering of refugees in regions close to their own countries . |
| 5 | During the remainder of the century some one-third of the increase in energy consumption in the LDCs is likely to be accounted for by oil which means a reduction in its proportion of consumption from 55% today to 43% by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | The availability of work at terminals just to the north led to a much greater increase in construction workers ( 82% compared with 18% ) in the western sector ( KW14.7 ) than in the eastern sector ( KW 14,8 ) , so that by 1981 their levels had become similar . |
| 7 | A liberal- democratic constitution , with the danger of " class legislation " ( the phrase used to voice the fear of a working-class takeover through the ballot box ) and an intrusion into the rights of property through the more direct , participatory , and collective democracy of a mandated House of Commons of delegates close to working-class constituencies , seemed to be quite another . |
| 8 | One of the first peoples to burst out of Central Asia and into the lands south and west of the Caspian were the Seljuks , a people of Turkish stock who subdued a broad band of territory from Afghanistan across to Syria , occupying Damascus and Jerusalem . |
| 9 | Furthermore , if this is really understood , this purpose can be achieved through a great variety of approaches with regard both to content and method . |
| 10 | Their destination the town of Graz in Austria close to the former Yugoslav border . |
| 11 | Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two . |
| 12 | Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself . |