Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | ‘ Good morning , McAllister , ’ he said ; his manners to all those society considered his inferiors were always punctilious . |
| 3 | The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . |
| 11 | Editor , — B G Evans and colleagues conclude the discussion of their paper by stating , ‘ Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . ’ |
| 12 | The World Health Organisation , the Food Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and the Joint Expert Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency all agree that food irradiation poses no risks to human health . |
| 13 | In its report , the GAO said that while there were no direct risks to human health from BST , the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) had failed to take account of indirect effects in its assessment of the hormone , a genetically engineered product which increases milk yield . |
| 14 | It will have three major goals : i ) promoting sound , consistent national pesticides registration procedures ; ii ) sharing the work of re-registration of old pesticides ; iii ) reducing risks to human health and the environment associated with pesticide use . |
| 15 | Despite its own doubts about the feasibility of the plan and the risks to low-flying aircraft from Serbian missiles , Downing Street said Britain was playing a full part in flying aid into Sarajevo and in convoy escort . |
| 16 | Further , it is essential that engineers are in a position to demonstrate that they have carried out their professional responsibilities and have acted to remove or reduce risks to responsible and acceptable levels . |
| 17 | Consideration of funding in relation to population distribution and the needs of the region seems to indicate a low and decreasing ratio of support from South East Arts to those areas of North Kent which can generally recognized as the Medway area . |
| 18 | In 1992 support activities have extended to encompass all areas of the voluntary sector from the Arts to Zoological research . |
| 19 | ‘ And the good Dr Neil Cochrane with her , the saintly refugee from the best society , who prefers the company of the dregs to that of his equals — well , well , well ! ’ |
| 20 | SUCCESSORS to one-arm bandits , fruit machines have to pay out 70p for each £1 slotted in . |
| 21 | As the population of Wales is smaller and more dispersed than in England , the creation of community councils as successors to former boroughs and urban district councils was more widespread than the creation of successor parishes in England . |
| 22 | Indeed , using archaeological and documentary evidence , it can be postulated that , in parts of west Somerset in particular , present-day settlements are the successors to prehistoric and Romano-British predecessors , even if not actually on the same site . |
| 23 | But the general observational procedures laid down by Hubble have been followed by his successors to this day . |
| 24 | Successors to this proud tradition , our group was now engaged in some cleaning duties . |
| 25 | ETHIOPIA : Ruling Democratic Front , successors to Marxist dictator Col Mengistu , face civil war from armed tribes in the East . |
| 26 | Some compare Portia 's characteristics to that of the Queen at the time — Elizabeth I. Women were thought of being inferior and for a woman to have so much power was a very rare situation . |
| 27 | There are a number of cathedrals along the Po valley with similar characteristics to one another , particularly those at Parma and Cremona which each comprise the basic threefold group of buildings — campanile , baptistery and cathedral — all separate . |
| 28 | ‘ I must stress that we can detect these signals with my machine and we have already managed to give certain characteristics to certain signals — joy — frustration — sorrow , etc . |
| 29 | But , throughout his long career , he remained impervious to the explosions on the modern art front , remaining true to himself and evincing many similar characteristics to those of that earlier great East Anglian watercolourist John Sell Cotman , whom he greatly admired as , notably , in The Dales , 1961 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , Chinese rugs made in the heart of the country ( Suiyuan , Paotao and Kansu ) had slightly different characteristics to those woven in East Turkestan , Mongolia and Tibet . |