Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women will bring little kids to the adventure playground and talk to each other instead of screaming over the walls of their backyards — oh , piss off ! ’ |
| 2 | Since the collapse of communist rule in 1989 some improvements to the cityscape have been made , but the damage to buildings is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone . |
| 3 | When he next speaks to the chairman of British Rail , will he tell him that , whereas there have been some improvements to the line in the past five years , my constituents are still extremely concerned about punctuality and the cleanliness of trains ? |
| 4 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 5 | 3 Social scientists in the mainstream of debate and those on the Left have become increasingly alive to the fact that competition is not always the reality of interest-group politics and that the relation of some groups to the state is different from that set-down in pluralist theory . |
| 6 | He took one look at me , smiled and slipped some coins to the turnkey for food and wine . |
| 7 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 8 | Although there is no certain cause of the hemispheric pattern , it has been related by some researchers to the eruption last year of El Chichon in Mexico , and by others to a recurring cycle of drought and flood in the southern hemisphere . |
| 9 | There , much to Dexter 's amazement , Blanche strode down some steps to the kitchen , where Beasley sat at a pine table nursing a glass of wine . |
| 10 | A small Palestinian boy led me up some steps to the side of the building and the woman ushered me inside . |
| 11 | He rose , flung his arms wide , took a deep inhalation of sea air and climbed the few paces to the top of the dune where he would be visible to the clothed . |
| 12 | Linda jumped out and went the few paces to the garage , unlocking the door and sliding it part way open . |
| 13 | The guards behind Rincewind backed away , and their captain took a few paces to the right . |
| 14 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 15 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
| 16 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 17 | Walking the few steps to the dressing table , she picked it up . |
| 18 | Without conscious intent he walked the few steps to the bookshop . |
| 19 | I took a deep breath of cool air before diving into the blast of heat and walking the few steps to the house . |
| 20 | ‘ Mass media ’ whose appeal was essentially audio or visual were to prosper ; ‘ popular ’ daily newspapers which — in their layout , contents , and style — made too few concessions to the reader , were on the decline . |
| 21 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 22 | Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison . |
| 23 | Another solution is the so-called " high-level assembler language " , or " machine-oriented high-level language " ( Van der Poel and Maarssen 1974 ) , for example BCPL ( Richards 1969 ) and PL360 ( Wirth 1968 ) which provides such high-level facilities as block structure and loop control , but with some concessions to the type of manipulations required at the machine level . |
| 24 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , it is the absence of this grounding that opens some methods to the charge of excessive individualism . |
| 25 | Sometimes the causes were trifling , as when Richard returned some books to the library including one that Elfed had wanted to read . |
| 26 | The collegiate and cathedral tradition in which many English singers received their training is comparable in some respects to the context in which medieval ( and Renaissance ) singers received theirs . |
| 27 | One reason was political : the fact that some parties to the Convention were recent enemies . |
| 28 | Packaging , transport and temperature controls have resulted in the growth of industries which are connected with handling and storage , but still those last few feet to the point of consumption remain critical . |
| 29 | In so far as this involves finding more and more ingenious ways of keeping as many people as possible away from unspoilt parts of rural England , there is common ground between some visitors to the countryside and many of those who live and work there . |
| 30 | The Shorts 360 comes into its own in the summer season , with frequent bus-stop services between the major islands , and it carries out some charters to the mainland to improve its utilisation . |