Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improved recognition rates can be achieved , the process is no slower , and has obvious leanings to parallelisation of at least some stages of the recognition process . |
| 2 | They are understood by the ability of the imagination ( Rachel 's servant , Bilhah ) to relate these emotions to anticipation of the joys of heaven and pains of hell , and helped by the practice of self-discipline , abstinence and patience in the desires of sensuality ( Zilpah , Leah 's servant ) . |
| 3 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 4 | And obviously that adds certain constraints to sort of erm income . |
| 5 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 6 | PLANS for a hotel and leisure development at Bodelwyddan Castle are moving ahead , but officials face strong opposition to part of the package . |
| 7 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 8 | Without that we would n't have a selection and training procedure which demands that all new volunteers give equal weight to understanding of lesbian concerns and knowledge of lesbian information as well of that of gay men . |
| 9 | The opening chorus of No. 140 , for example , is a very dramatic affair yet this aspect of Bach 's art takes second place to refinement of articulation and gracefulness of phrase . |
| 10 | Nor , once the war had ended and formal marriage bars were removed , did the increasing presence of married women in the labour force mean that efforts were made to extend female access to membership of occupational pension schemes . |
| 11 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 12 | St William 's Foundation sees the need for a programme of action which will explore new paths , side step old obstacles , find lateral avenues to solution of apparently intractable problems . |
| 13 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |
| 14 | Thus , by virtue of institutional demands , occupational conventions and perceived political legitimacy , the media as a whole are predisposed to adopt a style of coverage which will pay scant regard to analysis of the causes of protest or the grievances of protesters . |
| 15 | Hundreds bid sad farewell to victim of plane tragedy |
| 16 | So we 're looking for a for a separate policy in the industry employment section of the structure plan , we do not wish to see any amendment to part of E two or for that matter to Policy I five , both of which we we fully support . |
| 17 | However , they they say that it i b it is unacceptable because it er pays insufficient regard to loss of jobs and the future role of manufacturing and service industry . |
| 18 | ( The Social Security Pensions Act 1975 requires that men and women have equal access to membership of such schemes . ) |