Example sentences of "[noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 2 | To equalise the pressure in the bladder to that being placed on the body , it is inflated during descent and deflated on rising . |
| 3 | Figure 2 shows the effect of inhibition of NO synthase on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 . |
| 4 | Figure 4 shows that the effect of L-NAME on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 was not found in animals receiving L-arginine . |
| 5 | Note that the effect on sodium nitroprusside was the opposite of that found with the NO synthase inhibitors and its administration greatly reduced the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 . |
| 6 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 7 | ‘ Good morning , McAllister , ’ he said ; his manners to all those society considered his inferiors were always punctilious . |
| 8 | The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ . |
| 9 | So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these . |
| 10 | From mid-May to late June , though , the bats were nor particularly concentrated round the street lights . |
| 11 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 12 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 13 | Politics describes a specialized field of activity concerned with the whole machinery of government ; law correspondingly refers to the whole apparatus of the machinery of justice ; religion to that which concerns the activities of churches and churchmen . |
| 14 | On the contrary , he maintains that such a study might well lead to the extension of one 's regard for one 's own religion to other religions , and at the same time , provide a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 15 | The sudden apparition of the avenging , victorious ayatollah not only astounded the West , it also gave an immense , immediate surge of pride in their culture and in the political power of the religion to other Muslims . |
| 16 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 17 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 18 | States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage . |
| 19 | Mubarak thus referred to those " who falsely use the Islamic logo to cover up their acts ; … religion to these people becomes a trade . " |
| 20 | to explore the contribution of religion to human identity and fulfilment , both individual and corporate ; |
| 21 | It would be wrong to conclude from this that Gandhi is opposed to conversion from one religion to another . |
| 22 | Gandhi 's attitude to mission and conversion finds an echo in Tillich 's rejection of missionwissenschaft , an approach to religions which sees the purpose of religious dialogue as a means of conversion from one religion to another in accordance with certain theological presuppositions . |
| 23 | It is an error , therefore , to oppose Freudian explanations of religion to those of Marx , Engels , Durkheim and Weber . |
| 24 | And while childbearing by teenagers in the 15–19 age group does not appear to carry excessive health risks in the more advanced nations , in some of these countries , the risks to personal well-being can be considerable . |
| 25 | This development raises important policy issues for bank regulators , in particular because of the possible additional risks to individual institutions and to the banking system as a whole . |
| 26 | But , once more , the qualifications were liberally added : ‘ as long as the individual is active and capable of carrying out the required duties ’ ; and ‘ where risks to other persons are involved ( eg driving ) , then adequate checks on ability should be made . ’ |
| 27 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 28 | This might well help bring perpetrators of abuse to justice , and help protect any future children in a family , but these benefits must be weighed against the risks to vulnerable and suggestible suspects . |
| 29 | Employers are also obliged to assess the risks to pregnant women and protect them from those risks and adjust working conditions and hours of work to protect their health and safety . |
| 30 | Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . |