Example sentences of "of [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the formal semanticist , these elements are required in the assignment of values to indexicals such as I , you , here and now . |
| 2 | The new probe is the latest in a string of setbacks to Mark Thatcher 's hopes of staying in Switzerland , where he rents a lakeside penthouse . |
| 3 | What is being proposed here , in effect , is a deficit model of teaching where poor quality results from deficiencies in personality , gaps in learning , or weak matching of competences to tasks . |
| 4 | Malondialdehyde is a stable product of the conversion of endoperoxides to thromboxane A 2 by the microsomal enzyme thromboxane synthetase and is formed in equimolar amounts ( Diczfalusy et al , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | For example , Sulmac , the Kenyan subsidiary of Unilever , controls about one third of Kenya 's exports of carnations to Europe and has limited its integration to combining cultivation with warehousing and agency operations in the buying markets . |
| 6 | International markets , the EC and the New European Economic Area in particular , are seen by many as key expansion areas , and Society efforts to remove regulations restricting the rights of solicitors to practice abroad continued . |
| 7 | Both French nationals , Mrs de Menil was born a Schlumberger , an Alsatian family whose fortune was made in oil drilling equipment , and which transferred is centre of operations to Texas in 1942 . |
| 8 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 9 | Councillor Ian MacDonald and former Councillor Spencer Rosie made a number of requests to officials for copies of the document . |
| 10 | He sent waggon-loads of treasure and a great entourage of knights to Saragossa with requests for a formal reconciliation . |
| 11 | With only his home-made phrase book to help him , Twoflower was trying to explain the mysteries of inn-sewer-ants to Broadman . |
| 12 | Restitution — Quasi-contract — Moneys had and received — Payments of moneys to revenue in accordance with statutory instrument — Payments made without prejudice to claim for return if statutory instrument void — Whether moneys repayable by revenue with interest — Supreme Court Act 1981 ( c. 54 ) , s. 35A ( as inserted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( c. 53 ) , s. 15(1) , Sch . |
| 13 | Thus , for instance , Jeremy Lever QC in a recent article referred to ‘ the lack of recitals to United Kingdom legislation and the rule that reports of parliamentary debates are inadmissible as aids to construction , in consequence of which there may be no way in which the objects of United Kingdom legislation can be readily ascertained by our courts . ’ |
| 14 | It is described as a new approach to the regulation of emissions to air , land and sea from most polluting processes , and will apply the concept of ‘ best available techniques not entailing excessive cost ’ . |
| 15 | Another characteristic of reactions to chemicals is that they come on very promptly after the exposure — which helps in the diagnosis . |
| 16 | The Normans insisted on the production of titles to estates and threatened to confiscate those for which none were forthcoming . |
| 17 | Epistemic appearances are appearances of objects to beings capable of recognising them . |
| 18 | Consumer psychology attempts to relate sets of objects to groups of people as ‘ target ’ populations , but , whilst it deals entirely with artefacts , it does not address the question of their particular nature as concrete material culture . |
| 19 | There could still be perspectival appearances of objects to points of view even if all sentient life ceased to exist . |
| 20 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 21 | I shall claim that this system involves the arbitrary assignment of attainments to hierarchies of knowledge , understanding and skill , and the equally arbitrary assignment of levels to ages , leading to the arbitrary classification of children . |
| 22 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 23 | During the reign of Charles I there was a great flood of emigrants to North America and the West Indies , and a third type of colony appeared in addition to the colonies for English settlement and the trading posts which needed political power to function effectively : the colonies which were emerging in the West Indies were beginning to turn into plantations in the modern sense in which Englishmen directed the labour of other people . |
| 24 | Between 1952 and 1970 the number of emigrants to Curação declined and then stopped , largely because other places increasingly appeared more attractive to the emigrant . |
| 25 | But it was n't really such a leap from paintings of riders to pictures of top-hatted toffs playing around with tousled tarts . |
| 26 | At least for declarative memory ( Chapter 4 ) there is a transition , over a period of minutes to hours , from the initial and labile short-term phase to long-term , stable memory . |
| 27 | A final aspect of housing management is the sale of houses to tenants ( figure 5.3 ) . |
| 28 | Moreover diplomats , as in the seventeenth century , were frequently corrupt ; and the attitude of contemporaries to short-comings of this kind remained remarkably casual by modern standards . |
| 29 | Walking from north to south , it starts along the private road to Coulin Lodge and continues past Loch Coulin as a good track , rising a little before descending through a forest of conifers to Achnashellach Station . |
| 30 | For her , restriction of activities to programmes of formal course provision could not satisfy the wider objectives of the WEA . |