Example sentences of "the [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the openings to the hair follicles . |
| 2 | We seal all the openings to the body . |
| 3 | There is , quite simply , no comparison in the attitudes to the game of British people and Caribbean people . |
| 4 | She pushed her way through the crowds to the back of the cab , where another group of nomes were already nomehandling a plank into position , and scrambled up to where Dorcas was trying to make himself heard in the middle of an excited crowd . |
| 5 | Andy gives a small smile , takes the empty glass from her and heads back through the crowds to the kitchen . |
| 6 | The counter-examples to the policy ineffectiveness proposition that we have considered in this chapter have led one notable proponent of rational expectations to write ‘ the potential usefulness of activist policy rules in dampening fluctuations … may survive the rational expectations revolution ’ ( McCallum , 1980 , p. 738 ) . |
| 7 | In 1878 Frobenius showed that relinquishing the commutative law of multiplication adds only the quaternions to the list , and using algebraic topology Bott , Milnor and Kervaire showed , in 1957 , that relinquishing in addition the associative law adds only the Cayley numbers . |
| 8 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 9 | Within moments the bewildered assistant cooks had tied the ropes to the cauldron and suspended the boiling mass over a forked spit rest . |
| 10 | And Archie tied one of the ropes to the box of groceries and we pull it across ; and then we tie the other rope to the empty box and he pull it across empty ready to fill it up again . |
| 11 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 12 | Events occurring before 16th June 1993 have been reflected in the Accounts to the extent required by SSAP 17 . |
| 13 | The interim injunction stopped the broadcast until the matter could be tried , and in due course the court ordered the BBC to " give discovery " to the plantiff , ie to disclose the tapes of the programmes to the Attorney-General who brought the action on behalf of the Government . |
| 14 | Payment of that sum and other monies from the Deanses to the club was referred to by the outgoing financial director , Clive Scott . |
| 15 | Top-quality diamonds , even small ones , are normally ‘ sourced ’ with a certificate when released to the trade by the Central Selling Organization which dominates the world diamond trade , handling over 85 per cent of stones passing from the mines to the trade . |
| 16 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 17 | I turned up at Queen 's Road Mortuary , parked Armstrong on a single yellow line , and followed the signs to the Coroner 's Court . |
| 18 | 2.12 The Surveyors shall be entitled to attend every Inspection and the Landlord shall procure that the Architect shall have [ due ] regard to any written representations made by the Surveyors to the Architect concerning the issue of the Certificate within [ 3 ] working days after the date of the Inspection but the issue or non-issue of any Certificate shall be in the sole professional discretion of the Architect |
| 19 | Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend should then invite the artists to the festival . |
| 21 | This is so notwithstanding any resolution of the creditors ' committee or of the creditors to the contrary ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 22 | A boy ran across from the toilets to the drinking fountain in the centre of the playground from which hung an iron cup on a heavy chain . |
| 23 | As well as stressing the dangers to the unity of the United Kingdom , the Tory campaign will concentrate this week on emphasising what ministers claim is the threat to recovery that would be posed by a Labour government , particularly the likelihood of an immediate increase in interest rates . |
| 24 | The explanation of the statement is that Harold Macmillan , unworldly as he was , became increasingly conscious of the dangers to the government if the matter was not satisfactorily cleared up . |
| 25 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 26 | On a more serious note , the dangers to the environment are highlighted in an entertaining way in the animated adventure Fern Gully : The Last Rainforest . |
| 27 | Thus it is not an easy task facing those working in the UK to raise awareness about the causes of world poverty , and the dangers to the planet of Western hegemonic over-development , and the present economic order . |
| 28 | But just a minor point , erm if we 're going to settle for one third the job initially , is that going to improve the bollards to the front and rear ? |
| 29 | The cloak fell away from her , and they walked along the ramparts to the catwalk stairs , the air cool on their hot faces . |
| 30 | Others , in powerful form , would force the fielders to the boundary . |