Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government lost the Teluk Pasu by-election in Trengganu state on June 24 , when its candidate was narrowly defeated by the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party ( Parti Islam Se Malaysia — PAS ) whose total representation rose to three in the 32-seat Trengganu State Assembly . |
| 2 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 3 | He missed the cut in 1990 and again last year , when he also dropped to 53rd in the American money list . |
| 4 | Thus , the population in year t , P t , is related to that in the previous year by |
| 5 | By 1787 Thornton was the established manager of theatres at Henley , Newbury , and Andover , adding to these in the following year his first purpose-built theatre at Reading . |
| 6 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 7 | Cowley now employs 5,000 people , compared to 28,000 in the early 70s . |
| 8 | The attraction of so-called Third World labour is the fact that it can be cheap compared to that in the advanced capitalist countries . |
| 9 | the pension cost charge for the period together with explanations of significant changes in the charge compared to that in the previous accounting period |
| 10 | The indices for rarer species , and the nocturnal ones such as owls , have been omitted from the tables because the figures give little useful information compared to those in the general records of the Society . |
| 11 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 12 | Grenville Tuck speeding to fourth in the 10-mile rankings |
| 13 | It is clear that the ‘ costs charges and expenses ’ referred to both in the legal mortgage of 18 February 1985 ( which may be taken as typical of all the mortgage deeds ) and in the guarantee and debenture of 6 June 1985 may include both costs charges and expenses of or incidental to litigation ( which we will for convenience refer to as ‘ litigation costs ’ ) and costs , charges and expenses incurred otherwise than in connection with litigation ( ‘ non-litigation costs ’ ) . |
| 14 | Although much of the provision for unemployed people is organised through the local education authorities , this university project illustrates that the RBs ( referred to earlier in the liberal model ) can also play an important role in developing this work . |
| 15 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprise in Schools Project Scotland ( MESP ) , the number of secondary schools participating in the scheme has increased to 212 in the academic year ended 1990/91 . |
| 16 | After four successive losses and six weeks without a League goal , Graham 's patience with Arsenal — who have sunk to eighth in the Premier League — is wearing thin . |
| 17 | It is unfortunate that the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , while expressing authorising service in a manner prescribed by the law of the foreign country , contains no provision corresponding to that in the English Rules of the Supreme Court that nothing in the Rules authorises or requires the doing in a foreign country of anything contrary to the law of that country ; the issue is referred to merely in the official commentary of the Advisory Committee and then only as affecting the chances of the recognition and enforcement in the foreign country of a judgment obtained in the United States . |
| 18 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 19 | There was a dramatic flowering of public discussion and debate ; whereas under Nicholas I on average no more than eight new journals were founded annually , that number leaped to thirty-three in the early years of Alexander II 's reign . |
| 20 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |