Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other idioms may be based on melody of widely different kinds , spanning from almost traditional thematic characteristics to melody which has hardly any element of tradition . |
| 2 | Such social processes make us aware how immensely powerful are the mechanisms of denial , the psychological capacity to shut our eyes and ears to matters which are too painful to be contemplated and which create for practitioners ethical and professional dilemmas which are hard to resolve . |
| 3 | Many European houses are anyway more used to peddling bonds to investors whose main interest is price , than equities to investors who must be convinced about the health and prospects of a specific company . |
| 4 | The Communist Party now contains an extraordinary range of opinion , from old believers to reformers who are closer in outlook to middle-of-the-road democrats than to their hardline comrades . |
| 5 | The Communists claimed that the ILP Member , John McGovern , had weakened the demonstration by trying to present its demands to Parliament himself , rather than allowing the leaders of the NUWM to do so . |
| 6 | Urraca at once sent messengers to Alfonso who , having won the support of the Moorish king of Toledo , left his place of exile to proclaim himself King of Castile , Leon and Galicia . |
| 7 | A further step was taken at Birmingham in 1930 when the Conference instructed the National Administrative Council : to reconstruct the ILP Parliamentary Group on the basis of acceptance of the policy of the ILP as laid down by decisions of Annual Conference and as interpreted by the NAC. and to limit endorsements of future ILP Parliamentary candidates to nominees who accept this basis . |
| 8 | Sandwiched between these trips to China she investigated child labour in Egypt in 1930 under the auspices of the International Association for Social Progress and the ILO . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 10 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 11 | Robin and Jenny both told her she shut her eyes to things she did n't like . |
| 12 | Recently , however , the Indonesian government has awarded concessions to companies which are making use of trans-migration labour to harvest large quantities for the lucrative export market . |
| 13 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 14 | ‘ There appear to be two parties to date who are significantly interested in the property and we expect an offer very shortly . ’ |
| 15 | Parties to Protocol I undertake to prohibit their nations and vessels from driftnet fishing in the Convention area while parties to Protocol II accept further obligations in waters within their own jurisdiction . |
| 16 | She found herself talking too , drawn by some required exchange of confidences and a dislike of being on her own , discussing the gardens , the weather , other people 's dogs , safe everyday subjects , in the way she made conversation at parties to people she had n't met before . |
| 17 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 18 | The funds were often borrowed by speculators who then reinvested them in strong currencies in the expectation of revaluations , a hideous spiral by which central banks were providing funds to speculators who stood to make a profit from them if the currency was revalued . |
| 19 | Finally , it is important to guard against over-reliance on legal solutions to problems which have complex causes . |
| 20 | Thus , those which would find the it relatively cheap and straightforward to cut pollution might be able to sell some of their units to producers which would find it difficult or expensive to do so . |
| 21 | From the owners of vintage cars to drivers who 've invested thousands of pounds in buying and maintaining former racing cars . |
| 22 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 23 | We might have expected that people would give particularly low ratings to sources they described as biased but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 24 | Through the BBC giving opportunities to women I was there to be chosen . ’ |
| 25 | Introduce Opportunities to parties whose acquisition requirements are a matter of public knowledge ( EXTBUY ) . |
| 26 | In areas where women have similar opportunities to men they appear as likely to break laws . |
| 27 | A few years later , mass produced model cars were commonplace , but thanks to Dad my friends and I spent many happy hours with the early version he produced in 1923 . |
| 28 | FRAUD SLASHED — THANKS TO PHOTOCARDS What the Bank expected to lose ! |
| 29 | Thanks to DDT there has not been a case of locally-transmitted malaria in Sicily since the early 1960s . |
| 30 | She believes that she was able to smile through the pain thanks to qualities she inherited from her mother . |