Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 2 | Taken together , these findings exclude the possibility that either apoptosis or the protective effect of bcl-2 involves the mitochondrial respiratory chain , at least in these cells under the conditions that we have studied , and raise the possibility that the Bcl-2 protein might exert its protective effect while bound to the continuous nuclear and ER membrane . |
| 3 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 4 | The Perkins 4 ( no of cylinders ) 236 ( size in cub inches ) will fit into a LR but in a four cylinder such as yours space is limited and it is a tight fit The six cylinder with the extra room in the engine bay allows the engine to fit more easily The 189 Ibf h torque as compared to the 103 Ibf h of its original engine will certainly find any weakness in the transmission , the S2A gearbox will handle it better than an S3 |
| 5 | In contrast , the α-truncated polymerases produce a differential footprint for the open complex when compared to the wild-type enzyme . |
| 6 | However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position . |
| 7 | I I recall that I in effect directed that an officer should carry a shotgun as opposed to the original officer that er was down for that weapon . |
| 8 | And in the point-of-sale material just a headline as opposed to the two sentences you have now ? |
| 9 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 10 | It is evident from the results shown in lanes 1–3 in Fig. 4B that pou[c] binds with high affinity to the HSV ICP4 TAATGARAT and the Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs whereas binding to the canonical octamer sequence ( Ad4 ) was barely detectable even after overexposure of the GMSA signals . |
| 11 | Quigley ( 1979 ) adds to this a tendency to interpret noun phrases as connecting to the nearest verb phrase , producing misinterpretation and limiting the range of written sentences . |
| 12 | Mirra Komarovsky , in her study of American Blue Collar Marriage , finds that higher education is correlated with a ‘ less favourable ’ attitude to housewifery , and a number of other studies back up this contention as applied to the American scene . |
| 13 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 14 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 15 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 16 | Christian spoke of Nahum as belonging to the new generation of his people , an educated man and a future spokesman for them . |
| 17 | Picture quality is good ; if the format has a weakness , it is in the quality of the sound if recorded to the old ‘ mono ’ system which has a tendency to be slightly hissy . |
| 18 | The video is already a record breaker in that it was produced in only three weeks as opposed to the normal six to eight weeks . |
| 19 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 20 | Osman noted that although state income in 1989 had been higher than expected — 214,000 million meticais as opposed to the 190,000 million meticais originally projected — spending had also been higher than budgeted , at 238,000 million meticais . |
| 21 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 22 | At the moment the figures of housing provision in that draft advice are rat are done on a rather different basis for West Yorkshire as opposed to the other counties in the region . |
| 23 | Project B remits larger cash inflows spread over a five-year period as opposed to the three years of cash inflows from Project A. Discounted cash flows would provide a rational basis for comparing these two projects on an equitable basis . |
| 24 | There is a need for receptiveness to new ideas as opposed to the instantaneous rejection which is our normal British heritage . |
| 25 | The apoR2 reflections had isomorphous differences of 13% when compared to the native data set ( calculated on F -values ) . |
| 26 | Grice himself might assimilate apine dance to the category of phenomena that have what he called natural meaning as opposed to the non-natural meaning of expressions of natural language . |
| 27 | This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport . |
| 28 | 28mm pipes leading to and from the boiler for gravity circulation , or 22mm if connected to the pumped circuit for pumped circulation |
| 29 | Snow Blizzard is something of a quirky character but would win Lingfield 's mile and a half Taurus Handicap if adapting to the all weather surface . |
| 30 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |