Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 2 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 3 | The mare shied violently , jumping with a sudden jerk to the left with such force that Lucy 's boots slid from the stirrups and she was thrown to the ground . |
| 4 | ABOVE The original , suppressed frontispiece to the libretto of The Magic Flute , showing the Masonic symbols . |
| 5 | Add the herbs , some salt and pepper and the chopped tomatoes or passata to the casserole with the chopped sun-dried tomatoes . |
| 6 | He has tirelessly put the views of the National Licensed Victuallers Association to the Government during the course of these discussions and changes . |
| 7 | A Quality Circle team of Coalport flower makers , ‘ Simply the Best ’ , has brought new thinking to the making of bone china floral studies , which has given the marketing team a sweet smell of success . |
| 8 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 9 | Technology enforces rigorous thinking to the point of revealing embarrassing gaps in learning , teaching and training theory . |
| 10 | The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance , comprising the USSR , Poland , the GDR , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Bulgaria , was founded in 1949 as a diplomatic counterweight to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation ( OEEC ) and as a multilateral forum for containing the effects of Titoism . |
| 11 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 12 | William 's grandad had been a surrogate father to both of them and some small counterweight to the preponderance of nans and aunts and mothers . |
| 13 | FERRANTI International is planning legal action against a series of obscure European registered companies which acted as intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts that have brought the UK defence contractor to the brink of collapse . |
| 14 | Safer to close his eyes and his mind to her and give his entire concentration to the matter in hand ; a resolution to which he firmly held , even when , after a tumultuous welcome at Brighouse — the nearest railway station to Frizingley — he was escorted , with an appropriate accompaniment of banners and Chartist hymns , to a lodging-house at the top of St Jude 's street where the landlady , Mrs Sairellen Thackray , had offered to accommodate him free of charge . |
| 15 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 16 | And in a lecture to the Eugenics Society in 1911 , Sidney Webb denounced the Poor Law for degrading the British racial stock to the level of American blacks by supporting the unfit . |
| 17 | Add the pimentos , salame and boiling water or stock to the pan with most , but not all of , the parsley and a little salt and pepper . |
| 18 | In a saucepan , bring a ladleful of the fish stock to the boil with the saffron . |
| 19 | The dealing relationship with the Bank enables GEMMs to bid for stock that the Bank holds , to offer stock to the Bank for sale and to propose switches between different stocks . |
| 20 | If you are wrong , return the card to the bottom of the pile . |
| 21 | Somehow then she recalled the couple of business cards which Cara had given her and , in the hope that the woman might take her card to the master of the house , she dived into her bag and extracted one from her wallet and extended it to the woman . |
| 22 | Registration is easily achieved by presenting a Medical Card to the doctor of your choice or to the University Medical Officer . |
| 23 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 24 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 25 | This family of views , which derives from many of the same commitments as its predecessors , but owes a great deal to the development of the computer , has among others the rather unenlightening labels functionalism , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , and artificial intelligence-several of which labels obviously have other uses . |
| 26 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 27 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 28 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 29 | It is basically a German cathedral as it was mainly built by Germans , but it clearly owes a great deal to the influence of French cathedral design . |
| 30 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |