Example sentences of "to [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |
| 2 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 3 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 4 | Direct Line prides itself on responding to 90% of enquiries within 10 seconds . |
| 5 | Earlier , in one of the best speeches by an outgoing party chairman in recent years , Anne McGuire added her voice to chorus of attacks on the SNP 's action . |
| 6 | A similar situation applies to emissions of oxides of nitrogen , although gaseous oxides of nitrogen have a low dry-deposition rate , thereby allowing greater proportions to be converted to nitrate aerosols which are finally removed by rainout and washout . |
| 7 | Anyone working in the GIS research field is conscious of the links that need to be made to groups of researchers in other disciplines . |
| 8 | Two research projects have been funded by Scottish Enterprise to a total of £80,000 : the SHEEC project focusing on the accreditation of company in-house management qualifications and the DEAL project which is examining AWBL issues in relation to groups of workers at ICI and Strathclyde Region . |
| 9 | For a wide range of input and output patterns this system responds to removal of neurons in a surprisingly robust fashion , showing little degradation of function until a large number of neurons have been removed . |
| 10 | Thus metallic cobalt gives signals due to removal of electrons with binding energies 926 eV ( 2s ) , 794 and 779 eV ( 2p ) , 101 eV ( 3s ) and 60 eV ( 3p ) , while any cobalt oxide would also give signals due to the oxygen 1s core level with binding energy 540 eV , as shown in Fig. 6.4 . |
| 11 | The Eton Urban District Council granted permission ( under delegated powers ) , but after a petition , mainly from local shopkeepers , decided to seek a revocation order on the ground that ‘ the existence of a fish and chip restaurant in the High Street would be detrimental to the amenities , would cause nuisance , offence and annoyance to occupiers of properties in the vicinity and to users of the public highway , and would adversely affect the general appearance of the High Street ’ . |
| 12 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 13 | Growth failure is a major problem affecting up to 50% of children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 15 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 16 | It is easy to see how such behaviour could originate out of necessity ( if B is bilingual , but A monolingual in L ) and be extended even to cases where both speakers are bilingual , out of a need to show solidarity or to conform to norms of politeness within the community . |
| 17 | They also provide an important service to issuers of bills by offering a specialist market for such bills . |
| 18 | Before retiring in 1951 , she had been director of the Army 's European relief project , arranging the return to Germany of refugees from Russia and elsewhere after the huge migrations at the end of the war in Europe , and was later secretary of the war graves ' department . |
| 19 | See Ord 21 , r 2(2) as to payment of costs before bringing another action where the plaintiff has been nonsuited or struck out . |
| 20 | Although agreement may be reached between the parties as to the future of the matrimonial home , it is strongly advised that such agreement be embodied in a " consent order " of the court ; if the court does not have the power directly to make an order under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( for instance in relation to repairs to property held subject to certain conditions and in relation to payment of premiums of life assurance policies ) the same effect can be achieved by formulating the obligations of each party as undertakings given to the court ( see Livesey v Jenkins [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 106 and Salter , Matrimonial Consent Orders and Agreements , 2nd edn , Longman 1991 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ In the fourth quarter there was a profit of $6m despite additional claims on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ of $20m which were partly due to $9m of losses through our now discontinued treaty reinsurance operations in the London Market . |
| 22 | This is established in feline leukaemia , of which the greatly increased incidence in households with many cats is due mainly to exposure of kittens to large doses of a virus that usually causes merely an immunising infection . |
| 23 | There were still plenty of ugly and unpleasant prisons attached to Courts of Requests outside London , like that at Kidderminster , a dungeon with an exercise yard of only twelve square feet . |
| 24 | Sexuality may be a component in stratification by gender but it can not be assumed a priori by a process of projection in which the male sociologist , himself accustomed to thinking of women in these terms , imposes his own proclivities and preoccupations on the data he is analysing . |
| 25 | Most pupils have little creativity or imagination , except when it comes to thinking of excuses for not having done their homework . |
| 26 | Part of Miller 's next letter , 12 January 1758 , has already been quoted ( p. 80 ) with regard to loss of specimens at sea and this was regrettable as his Hortus siccus contained nearly ten thousand specimens and he wished to make it as complete as possible . |
| 27 | The sitter is both always the same and always different under this regime ; we are accustomed to sequences of portraits of the same subject ( the Queen for example , or Rembrandt 's self-portraits ) but with Auerbach 's sequence is disconcerting because , as a series , it arouses expectations of progress ( by ageing ) or difference ( by character or role ) which are not fulfilled . |
| 28 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 29 | A letter containing information about the new unit specification was sent to heads of centres in November . |
| 30 | His Minister of State , Mr. Patten , stated that ‘ there is no great principle ’ of English law that burdens of proof should not be placed on the defence , and he recited examples which are familiar to readers of textbooks on criminal evidence — the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , etc. ( ibid . , |