Example sentences of "of the [noun] to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rothmans ' chairman Lord Swaythling , a Tory Peer , told of the threat to jobs at the company 's Darlington and Spennymoor plants in a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon . |
| 2 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 3 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 4 | The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks . |
| 5 | Some writers have been sceptical of the advantages to women of these advances in contraceptive and abortion technology . |
| 6 | As the people from whom paper SPRs originate may range from software developers with an intimate knowledge of the software to users with only a rudimentary understanding of computers , it is advisable to route incoming SPRs through a single responsible authority , or one per project , associated with the LIFESPAN manager . |
| 7 | During the nineteenth century the response of the courts to claims by employees injured at work tended to be hostile . |
| 8 | Thanks are also due to , , and , of the Library 's curatorial staff , for explaining the aims of the Survey to members of the public entering the Exhibition Room ; and to members of the Library 's warding staff for their co-operation during the period of the Survey . |
| 9 | Clearly the analysis that I have provided will have considerable implications for our understanding of the attribution to animals of free choice . |
| 10 | Payment Profile data has also been used by Infolink Decisions Services to improve the predictive power of credit scorecards , with impressive results — a good example of the benefits to customers of the cross marketing strategy between companies in the UAPT-Infolink Group . |
| 11 | DEC claims 250 Alpha PCs are already with independent software vendors and hopes to get more than 1,000 of the machines to developers by June 30 . |
| 12 | DEC claims 250 Alpha PCs are already with independent software vendors and hopes to get more than 1,000 of the machines to developers by June 30 . |
| 13 | He praised the achievements of the revolution but said that shortcomings did exist , as in the application of the emergency regulations , and that although Syria was still in a state of war with Israel , the government should consider restricting the use of the law to matters of state security and public order . |
| 14 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 15 | The money is going to the British Refugee Council and the Save the Children Fund , but Hackett rules out giving passing any of the money to projects in Vietnam , where the refugee problem originates . |
| 16 | He decorated most of the first half of the 700-page manuscript himself , leaving much of the rest to assistants of lesser ability . |
| 17 | A problem with camcorders in general is the proximity of the microphone to emitters of mechanical noise such as the camera 's power zoom motor or the auto-focus servo . |
| 18 | Because of the danger to cars on Marine Drive , the local council insists no climbing takes place between 9 am and 6 pm on bank holiday weekends , and throughout July , August and the first week of September . |
| 19 | Does the Eastern Board have no appreciation of the value to patients of the specialist knowledge and concentrated experience ? |
| 20 | A series of extensions , starting with the Great Reform Act in 1832 through a series of extensions in Victorian times , the extension of the franchise to women after the First World War and then to all persons , first over 21 , later over 18 , have changed the picture and the nature of Parliament radically . |
| 21 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 22 | This is in part a function of reduced manning levels on modern ships , particularly container vessels , but it also reflects the flagging out of much of the fleet to flags of convenience . |
| 23 | In the present study , this problem does not arise , because of the restriction to citations of a single type of material — theses . |
| 24 | It consists of developing a model of a process , eg corporate planning , which is then subjected to a series of trial-and-error experiments designed to predict the reactions of the process to variations in its inputs . |
| 25 | Finally , on the subject of accessibility , stock is used more frequently if kept on open rather than closed access , because of the importance to users of browsing as a method of locating material ( see Goodall 's book for a summary of recent literature on the beguiling topic of browsing ) . |
| 26 | There was a steady shift over time from the edges of the group to positions near the central barrier and towards the front of the group . |
| 27 | Yet it must be remembered that much of the opposition to bishops in Charles 's reign arose from their characters and from the use of their powers . |
| 28 | These issues will not be pursued further here , however , since in addition to the limitation of the duty to cases of insolvency or near-insolvency , the authorities do not suggest a need for behaviour at variance with the demands of profit maximisation . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 30 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |