Example sentences of "of the [noun] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another example that illustrates the need for change is the diminished opportunity to pass deterrent sentences , not just in terms of the threat to society of a particular offender , but the threat to society that is posed by the crime at large in which these people are involved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Walkers can also extend the excursion by continuing from Heiligenschwendi downhill in a southerly direction on the edge of the woods to Oberhofen on the lakeside ( approximately 40 minutes ) . |
| 4 | This reflects the actual opportunity cost of the resources to society as a whole . |
| 5 | Patrick McAuslan and John McEldowney write of the contribution to disaffection throughout western Europe of what they term the gap ‘ between on the one hand the rhetoric of democracy , of even-handed administration , and of equal opportunities for all , and on the other the increasing centralization and insensitivity of public administration ’ . |
| 6 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But since brachiopods were unable to do many of the things that bivalves do very efficiently , it would be unwise to attribute the decline of the brachiopods to diversification of the bivalves . |
| 10 | The union of the comté to England in 1279 gave Ponthieu an administration in which Englishmen served , as they served in the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | would try and get a lot more searching questions about how the curriculum was being developed in the school , what exactly was happening , what really was going to be the attitude of the Head to RBL in the future … |
| 12 | But the machines have been overwhelmed since the 1960s , not least by the impact of mass media and by demographic upheaval : New York 's non-Hispanic white population dropped from 77% of the total to 43% between 1960 and 1990 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , P. Decourt , a French clinical consultant to Specia , took samples of the drug to Tunisia for human trials . |
| 14 | Though he was opposed to the offer of the Crown to Cromwell in the spring of 1657 , with that out of the way he came round in support of the revised draft of the Humble Petition and Advice ( June 1657 ) . |
| 15 | The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks . |
| 16 | He was a member of the embassies to France in 1325–6 , 1331 and 1336 and he used his position as envoy and representative of Edward III to further his book-collecting activities . |
| 17 | The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live . |
| 18 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |
| 19 | But as the critics also point out , this trend itself has a political character , and may be interpreted as the consequence of the rise to power of a new technical-bureaucratic class or elite . |
| 20 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 21 | Some writers have been sceptical of the advantages to women of these advances in contraceptive and abortion technology . |
| 22 | it warned of the dangers to people of the weedkiller 2,4,5-T , with scant hope of doing much good in official circles , especially in the MAFF . |
| 23 | The HSE takes a generally sanguine view of the dangers to health from biotechnology . |
| 24 | Around the choir is a wooden bas-relief depicting the flight in 1620 of Frederick of the Palatinate to Warsaw after his defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 25 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 26 | On the opposite side of the creek to Down in the Sewer is Up the Creek , HVS 5a which climbs the centre of the steep wall and the grooves above , ascended by A. Thornton & M. Evans . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As well as addressing the role and responsibilities of public , authorities , industry , the workforce and the general public , the principles detail prevention activities , including planning , construction , monitoring and assessment and mention the rights of the public to information concerning hazardous installations . |
| 29 | During the nineteenth century the response of the courts to claims by employees injured at work tended to be hostile . |
| 30 | He then wrote A Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool in which he gave every detail of the excursion . |