Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 2 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Sections 45 to 50 of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( which provide for payment of allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies ) shall apply with any necessary modifications to members of licensing boards as if the licensing boards were local authorities . |
| 4 | The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease . |
| 5 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 6 | Constipation represents a common problem in children , accounting for 3% of visits to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as to a large general paediatric clinic in Boston , but little is known about longterm outcome in young children . |
| 7 | The second is that they include not only pedigrees and arms but also , in many cases , ancillary material such as lists of persons to be summoned , correspondence , church notes and lists of disclaimers . |
| 8 | Furthermore , pH i can recover spontaneously to baseline within minutes after exposure of cells to acute acid and alkaline loads . |
| 9 | After months of trips to the Dahran air base in the war for Kuwait , the journey 's become distinctly routine . |
| 10 | Statutory consultation is expected later this year after receipt of responses to these proposals from purchasers , providers , and professional bodies . |
| 11 | In the classical period and earlier it was quite common for statues of goddesses to be annually reinvested with robes . |
| 12 | Most chapters contain one or more ‘ general methods ’ , a step-by-step procedure for performing a particular purification — eg of membrane proteins — or for separation of proteins to a grade necessary for sequencing , or therapeutic use . |
| 13 | The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets . |
| 14 | The method of election of members to the Special Reserved Seats has been changed . |
| 15 | Despite resistance of markets to novelty and indeed diversity and the fact that few mills can handle a diversity of timbers , the advent of techniques for pulping mixtures of species means that the diversity of the rain forest becomes less of a problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just the men , what 's the kind of proportion of women to men in the factory ? |
| 18 | These are just examples of er of of of question of answers to questions Burn asks the question which I 've just asked , why then does low turn out persist , cos he 's just made the point above that there are big issues in local government . |
| 19 | Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that |
| 20 | It 's , it , it is a form of accountability of universities to the public really . |
| 21 | When a set of bindings of anaphors to possible referents is deemed implausible , the plausibility checker should be able to say , where appropriate , which binding ( or subset of the bindings ) is causing the problem , and the rest of the system should react to this information intelligently and make relevant changes . |
| 22 | This would be an extension of the automatic cross-reference list of classes of words to be treated as synonymous with each other which we have used in Okapi '86 . |
| 23 | It was announced on July 30 , at the end of a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of the members of the Union monétaire ouest-africaine ( UMOA ) held in Dakar , Senegal , that there would be no devaluation of the franc of the Communauté financière en Afrique centrale ( CFA ) despite weeks of rumours to the contrary ; this was confirmed by a statement from the French Ministry of Economy and Finance that the rate of 50 francs CFA to one French franc would remain . |
| 24 | This latter effect would directly influence the calculations of suppliers of commodities to the public sector , and indirectly influence other enterprises through its ‘ multiplier ’ repercussions . |
| 25 | Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women . |
| 26 | Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word . |
| 27 | This reflects their spectacular size and the drama of reconstructions of battles to the death between Tyrannosaurus and its armoured contemporaries . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 29 | The starting point for this discussion — of the changing division of labour by sectors and by strata , and of the social pattern of recruitment of individuals to the positions within these divisions — was the condition of party politics as the 1960s ended , and in particular the position of the Labour Party , which had forfeited the active support on important sections of its ‘ traditional ’ partisans yet had not apparently suffered a collapse of electoral support ( as indicated by opinion polls before the 1970 election ) . |
| 30 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |