Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] to [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clearly the analysis that I have provided will have considerable implications for our understanding of the attribution to animals of free choice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He decorated most of the first half of the 700-page manuscript himself , leaving much of the rest to assistants of lesser ability . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Does the Eastern Board have no appreciation of the value to patients of the specialist knowledge and concentrated experience ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the present study , this problem does not arise , because of the restriction to citations of a single type of material — theses . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 14 | The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning , but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals , like humans , as cognitive organisms . |
| 15 | Rotation of the impeller to speeds of 30000 rpm generates a vortex that sucks the gall stones into the basket , on to the impeller where the stones are reduced to a fine sediment ( fig 2 ) . |
| 16 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |