Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether clubs raked in more than £133 million in gate receipts from domestic games during 199192 compared to the previous year 's £114m . |
| 2 | Concern about this led to the appointment of the Plowden Committee on the Planning and Control of Public Expenditure which reported in 1961 . |
| 3 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 4 | A possible reason for this relates to the paradoxical finding that a level of activation of the NMDA receptor system , which is itself inadequate for producing LTP , can result in a subsequent impairment in the ability to generate LTP r28–30 . |
| 5 | The evidence for this relates to the observed length scales of the vortices ; the length of the vortices ( l 1 , in Fig. 21.21 ) is of the order of the total boundary layer thickness , whereas the cross-section ( l 2 ) is of the order of the viscous sub-layer thickness . |
| 6 | Good after that to return to the big glass . |
| 7 | One aspect after another yields to the open sesame of the envy theory . |
| 8 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 9 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 10 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 11 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 13 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 14 | I want a sample of that to go to the Met Lab urgently . |
| 15 | ‘ Part of that refers to the ways in which people fall short in their living , which is what we call sin , so it is not simply about that . |
| 16 | What do you think of that compared to the numbers ? |
| 17 | None of that relates to the targeting of advertising on young children . |
| 18 | Kerr includes a table of estimates in which it is clear that the ceilings of servants will be several feet lower , the cost of their rooms a mere quarter , and their floor space — despite their larger numbers — less than two-thirds of that allowed to the family . |
| 19 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 20 | At the core of Anthony d'Offay 's exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer ( 4 June-24 July ) is an installation entitled ‘ Die Frauen der Revolution ’ , which returns to a theme already investigated by the artist in a large picture of 1986 belonging to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . |
| 21 | Returning to the Red Cross building , the house opposite ( 20/184 ) by F. M. Kaňka of 1720 belonged to the Hartig family . |
| 22 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 23 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 24 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 25 | One simple example of this relates to the use of " s , discussed in the previous section . |
| 26 | The obvious unfairness of this led to the practice of providing , on issues of non-participating preference shares by public companies , that on redemption or any return of capital the amount repaid should be tied to the average quoted price in the months before . |
| 27 | ( He told a visiting American that £1,000 of this went to the orphanage and theological college he had founded while the rest went towards the stipends of his assistant ministers . |
| 28 | All of this adds to the time involved in the process and certainly adds to the fees . |
| 29 | I can not find that it was undue influence of the kind which sapped her will and destroyed her volition , but I am satisfied that the pressure of her mother , the very presence of her mother , the mother 's fervent belief in the sin of blood transfusion , the patient 's desire to please her mother , despite their troubled relationship , all of this contributed to the focus of attention being drawn to blood transfusion before anyone else had ever contemplated its need . |
| 30 | The defeat of the Welsh rising of 1294 led to the inception in 1295 of James 's last great commission , Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey , Britain 's most perfect example of the concentric castle plan . |