Example sentences of "of the [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bombay police said that some of the six fled to Dubai shortly before and others shortly after 13 bombs devastated the Bombay stock exchange , the Air India headquarters and other targets . |
| 2 | The peace of the dying belongs to the living too . |
| 3 | Coates and Silburn 's study ( 1970 ) showed that many of the poor were those without a male breadwinner , and Abel-Smith and Townsend 's study found 10 per cent of the poor belonging to fatherless families . |
| 4 | On the way to the line , an officer of the 33rd wrote to his parents with premonition , ‘ Is this farewell ? ’ |
| 5 | In electricity , the shortages of the sixties led to a considerable investment in new power stations , so that at the moment we in fact have far more electricity power stations than we need . |
| 6 | None of the four returned to Stockport . |
| 7 | Some of the injured had to be transferred to Middlesbrough General Hospital because no scanner was available at Darlington to assess the extent of their head injuries . |
| 8 | However we consider his evaluation of the implications of the polonium-210 release to be grossly in error . |
| 9 | Many of the best-dressed seem to be among the most stressed . |
| 10 | The frightening prospects described in the Limits to Growth model may have driven geographers of the 1970s to turn to the problems of smaller areas . |
| 11 | Two other aspects of the 1970's deserve to be recorded . |
| 12 | The lectures of the former and the associations of the latter appeared to be serving not only academic and economic purposes but also the promotion of political instability . |
| 13 | To argue as Bernard Williams does is to suggest that there is no sharp line to be drawn between the arts and the social sciences ; for it is the acknowledged role of the latter to contribute to our understanding of ourselves and our society . |
| 14 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 15 | She was tirelessly willing to discuss things in the manner of the country ; to sit down with a landlord , for example , and answer such questions as whether England was smaller than London , and which of the two belonged to France , and how much larger the Turkish navy was than those of England , France and Russia put together . |
| 16 | There are the lovers , where the apparently weaker one of the two seems to be the one calling the tune . |
| 17 | Both the Seller and the Purchaser shall each keep confidential and shall not without the prior consent in writing of the other disclose to any third party any technical or commercial information which it has acquired from the other as a result of discussions , negotiations and other communications between them relating to the goods and the Order . |
| 18 | NCI judged 50 per cent of the 170 compounds to be carcinogenic . |
| 19 | The major recommendation of the former came to fruition : the establishment of an enlarged Greater London Council to replace the old London County Council . |
| 20 | The return shows in all 849 persons of £40 and above , which should yield a net figure of something like 700 possible merchants , since a good many of the assessmented belonged to gentry , clergy , members of non-mercantile companies , or men of unstated occupation . |
| 21 | The U.S.P.G.A. reconsidered the decision and announced that Louis ' entry would be approved as one of the 10 allowed to the local sponsors for invited amateurs . |
| 22 | All of the above refers to the publishing industry alone . |
| 23 | So if none of the above applies to you now , it does not rule out risks you or your partner may have taken in the past . |
| 24 | Ventilation : large triangular mesh netting in the roof of the inner adds to internal ventilation when both doors are fully zipped up . |
| 25 | Bramshott and Liphook Preservation Society have broken new ground with their latest publication reproducing a copy of the 1925 Guide to Liphook and its outlying villages . |
| 26 | The motor function of the sphincter seemed to be persistently improved in patients regaining continence , but not in poor responders ( 71% of patients tested after training ) . |
| 27 | In 1963 the personal spending of the elderly amounted to 9 per cent of GNP ; it was still at this level by the late 1970s and was up only to 10.8 per cent by 1983 . |
| 28 | The truth of the first point needs to be examined in terms of the degree to which comprehension takes place , and the inevitability of the second needs to be questioned . |
| 29 | A petition of the 1660s referred to the entire dependence of many local people on the trade , particularly ‘ ye constant imployment of at least 50,000 lusty able workman ready for defence of your Majesty and ye Nacion in case of general needs ’ . |
| 30 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |