Example sentences of "of [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to deny listed status is just another in a series of setbacks to the redevelopment programme for Stamford Wharf which incorporates the tower . |
| 2 | Now Paul only mentions this incidentally , but it certainly corroborates the testimony of Acts to the working of the Spirit in the early Church . |
| 3 | The third main contribution of coins to the study of portraits is to their chronology . |
| 4 | ( b ) Calculate to four significant figures the ratio of the rate of diffusion through a porous membrane of hydrogen chloride gas composed wholly of molecules to the rate of diffusion of a gas composed wholly of molecules , both gases being at the same temperature and pressure . |
| 5 | The shape ensures that convective disturbances are minimized during the transportation of molecules to the cell bottom . |
| 6 | With this degree of isolation , Kandel could ignore any other sources of inputs to the system being studied — other peripheral nerves , circulating neuromodulators and so forth . |
| 7 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 8 | limitation point er it was held at one of general or continuing duty obtain an independent firm of solicitors to the option on every occasion on which they were consulted as to a possible exercise on such occasions whether in fact be issued it goes on . |
| 9 | You can enter a number of switches to the command line to change the way Turbobat handles the way it compiles and produces output etc . |
| 10 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 11 | The way we run our economy is the prime cause of environmental damage , now what the other parties are failing to see is that if we want to live in a truly ecological society , one that really recognises the constraints , er that the environment imposes on us , we have to have a consistent approach to every area of policy , so for example , in the Israel/Palestine conflict er debate , we have laid great stress on our , er advocating our own approach to conflict resolution , consensual approach , negotiations condemning the arms build-up which is inspired mainly by the U S , and so er whilst we have also debated some other more overtly environmental policies such as reaffirming our commitment to phase out nuclear power , we do lay great emphasis on er developing economic policies , particularly in the light of the up and coming general election and we want to obviously present a complete platform of policies to the electorate . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend will know that at the end of November we made a number of requests to the Government of Libya . |
| 13 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 14 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral National Assembly , whose 112 elected members are chosen for a five-year term by direct popular vote ; the President is empowered to appoint an unlimited number of deputies to the Assembly . |
| 15 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral National Assembly , 112 of whose members are directly elected for a five-year term ; the President can also appoint an unlimited number of deputies to the Assembly . |
| 16 | In 1917 Pétain threw a share of the blame for the mutinies upon the frequent visits of Deputies to the front . |
| 17 | In the article on Jakobson this position was somewhat modified ; Riffaterre proposed taking as his informants not average readers but the so-called ‘ Superreader ’ , a figure representing the sum of reactions to the language of a text manifested in the published work of its interpreters , translators and so on . |
| 18 | He not only handed control of the new Secret Committee to grandees but in the same month , December 1856 , raised the qualification for promotion to the hereditary nobility from the achievement of rank five on the Table of Ranks to the achievement of rank four . |
| 19 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 20 | At the beginning of the section Reid considers the artist 's need to acquire ‘ the habit of distinguishing the appearance of objects to the eye , from the judgment which we form by sight , of their colour , distance , magnitude , and figure . ’ |
| 21 | It is necessary for the painter to make the distinction because unless what he captures on his canvas is what Reid calls ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ the viewer of the painting will not make the right judgements . |
| 22 | It begins to look as if ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ and ‘ the judgement which we form by sight ’ do not constitute a dichotomy . |
| 23 | The most striking feature of the rotor is that it has a different number of teeth to the stator ; the example of Fig.1.5 has four rotor teeth . |
| 24 | the Board has responded to the government with regard to the pensions issue , and suggested a number of improvements to the government 's proposals . |
| 25 | The provincial grounds all hold between 40–50,000. a lot of improvements to the country 's infrastructure — transport , TV , telecommunications — were made for the Soccer World Cup in 1978 . |
| 26 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 27 | The project is contained in a Scottish Office consultation document proposing £200m-plus of improvements to the trunk road system south of Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Another way to thwart a hacker is to get daily print-outs of calls to the computer which would quickly weed out any suspicious activity , Mr Hook claimed . |
| 29 | During the week there had been a number of calls to the flat . |
| 30 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |