Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Although , as the free export of arms to France had been permitted , the restrictions were more nominal than real . ) |
| 2 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 3 | There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s . |
| 4 | The programme selected for this experiment was an episode of Pathfinders to Venus , a series already demonstrated as the main forerunner of Doctor Who . |
| 5 | Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright . |
| 6 | ‘ We owe a good deal of thanks to Mr Kennedy for all the effort he put into getting us the medals , ’ said Mr Connor . |
| 7 | A brick wall about six feet high stretched away into the blackness of trees to right and left . |
| 8 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 9 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 10 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 11 | Obeying Yazov , he sent a force of paratroops to Moscow with far from clear orders . |
| 12 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
| 13 | The major concern is with the identification and minimization of impediments to co-ordinated national approaches to the prevention of alcohol and tobacco-related problems . |
| 14 | This level of autonomy will result in a changed role for the school from one of administration of policies to one of management of local resources . |
| 15 | In most cases , adequate control is achieved by early and repeated administration of anthelmintics to kittens along the lines recommended for T. canis in pups . |
| 16 | The least successful schools were those which implemented the minimum programme asked for by GIST : administration of questionnaires to children , allowing women visitors into the school and piloting , more or less reluctantly , teaching materials devised by the team . |
| 17 | The undertaking of the welfare of illegitimate children of soldiers who had been killed , the organization of accommodation and support for those evacuated from the western borders of the Reich already in autumn 1939 , or the administration of packages to be sent to relatives at the Front , were all tasks which fell to the Nazi welfare organization , the NSV . |
| 18 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's the matter , Leonora ? ’ asked Penry , his voice so unusually gentle that it brought a sheen of tears to her eyes . |
| 20 | Light , free manoeuvrability also helps to avoid the telegraphing of techniques to an opponent . |
| 21 | The speed at which SSRs are propagated within LIFESPAN depends entirely on the speed of responses to endorsement requests . |
| 22 | The speed at which SSRs are distributed within LIFESPAN depends entirely on the speed of responses to endorsement requests . |
| 23 | Indeed , there has been a succession of attempts to ‘ streamline the planning process ’ and to make it more ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 24 | In the succession of sons to their fathers ' benefices , reform would have depended on the bishops and , of course , the clergy themselves . |
| 25 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 26 | The White Paper represented an important policy shift ; dispersal policies , pre-eminent for 30 years were now secondary to a switch of resources to inner areas . |
| 27 | This paper describes a technique that allows metabolism of nutrients to be assessed in whole epithelial biopsy specimens , and this technique has been used to assess the metabolism of butyrate and glutamine by ileal and colonic biopsy specimens from patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis and controls . |
| 28 | Sixteen pubs and a nightclub are taking part in the scheme , being regarded as a preventive measure rather than replacing the normal reporting of incidents to the police . |
| 29 | To meet increasing R&D commitments , WEG now requires a Research Engineer to be involved in the planning and management of research projects , the analysis and interpretation of data , and the reporting of results to both the design team concerned and external clients . |
| 30 | But it 's interesting is n't it that we have here the proposed deletion of subscriptions to local government information unit unit one thousand five hundred pounds . |