Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated , for example , that during the mid 1970s some 50 million US citizens were subject to hurricane winds of over 160 km/h and 6 million were subject to hurricane surge ( Brinkman 1975 ) . |
| 2 | It is not immediately obvious why this should be the case , but this provides evidence of a less restrictive response to GP referrals of women , since section 3 applies for six months and section 2 for 28 days . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of young players are now susceptible to hernia problems with the pace of the game and the hard work you have to put in . |
| 4 | Fang Lizhi , a leading astrophysicist noted for his frequent outspoken comments on the Chinese political system was invited to speak to electronics students at Beida on 4 November 1985 . |
| 5 | The belief , common to warrior peoples from Viking to Samurai , that the souls of those slain in battle went straight to heaven . |
| 6 | Its not something Ive known Leeds supporters do a lot of — except to shite players like Kevin Hird . |
| 7 | Version 6.3 is available to Progress users as an upgrade , anticipating the release of version 7 in May 1993 , now in beta at 15 UK sites . |
| 8 | There are many different types of institution that make up the financial sector , from banks to building societies to various institutions in the City of London . |
| 9 | The new requirements are largely set out in the Building Societies ( Accounts and Related Provisions ) Regulations 1992 , although where the change necessitated a change to the 1986 Act itself , that has been effected through the s 104 mechanism , which enables company law to be applied to building societies by Order . |
| 10 | The administration and the external political and administrative establishment may see participation as a political end in itself , as well as a means to building coalitions for the political good of their establishment . |
| 11 | To make design and control of large systems effective , there is a need for means of collecting , storing , retrieving , processing , transmitting and distributing relevant information to decision makers in time and at an acceptable cost . |
| 12 | But contrast the reaction to football fans who run through a town creating damage as they go with the reaction to university students during rag week creating similar damage . |
| 13 | To start with the Fellows : Barbara Harvey ( Medieval History ) and Louise Johnson ( Molecular Biophysics ) were promoted to university readerships during Hilary Term . |
| 14 | The second is organicism : that is , Conservatives regard society as ‘ a unitary , natural growth , an organized living whole not a mechanical aggregate ’ , which in turn implies that they are resistant to arguments which reduce society to component parts like classes or atomistic individuals . |
| 15 | Subject to contract heads of agreement for the acquisition of the whole of the issued share capital of ABC HOLDINGS LTD [ ’ abc ’ ] |
| 16 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 17 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 18 | Exports X from the domestic economy are related to income levels in the rest of the world , along with other factors such as the exchange rate ( see Section 7.2.1 ) . |
| 19 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |
| 20 | The mechanisms by which political elites can be held responsive to majority views in systems of representative government were further explored in Joseph Schumpeter 's Capitalism , Socialism and Democracy ( 1944 ) , which defined democracy as ‘ an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ . |
| 21 | He said Labour , Conservative and Lib Dems have refused to share a debate with Dr Clarke but he warned the BNP would not be prevented from going to election meetings in the town . |
| 22 | JOHANNESBURG ( Reuter ) — President FW de Klerk said yesterday that he would meet anti-apartheid churchmen — including Archbishop Desmond Tutu — next Wednesday , the first sign that he will live up to election promises of entering into talks with recognised black leaders . |
| 23 | In Central and South America the parallel " army ants " are very similar to driver ants in habit and appearance . |
| 24 | New rating guides will be sent to Branch Representatives with the May issue of the ‘ Newsheet ’ . |
| 25 | We sought to measure attitudes in several ways . |
| 26 | Later I knitted quality , made to measure garments in good yarns for people who for some reason or another ( usually an awkward size ) were unable to get what they wanted in the shops . |
| 27 | This diary is a method of building up a record of the learning which is taking place through workplace experience , which extends the student 's previous knowledge and skills and which can be used to measure competences in the workplace . |
| 28 | The second approach allows medium-term planning exercises by maximising a general welfare criterion subject to inequality constraints on key target variables and excessive policy manipulations . |
| 29 | Applied to fluorite deposits in south-west England , a samarium-neodymium isochron has been obtained for fluorite mineralisation at the Pendarves Mine which is in excellent agreement with previously determined rubidium-strontium ages . |
| 30 | However , all but three of the 36 liaison group schools collaborated with the research team throughout by continuing to trial packages of materials sent to them and to provide facilities for the research team to visit the schools . |