Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men .
2 This varied between authorities according to the complex needs and resources formulae then in operation .
3 Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli .
4 Last year 's activities included explanatory talks , simple construction projects , radio fox hunting , Morse instruction , radio operating with contacts as far away as Australia , USA and Japan , including opportunities for attendees to chat to the overseas operators , and experiments with a kite antenna .
5 The anticipated strong showing for candidates affiliated to the nationalist Moldavian Popular Front appeared to have been matched by an equally strong showing for the rival Yedinstvo ( " Unity " ) movement , drawing its support largely from the Russian and Ukrainian minority communities .
6 As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale .
7 Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment .
8 Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism .
9 Every child knows too , that the mass of products corresponding to the different needs require different and quantitatively determined masses of the total labour of society .
10 This group of authorities added to the six mentioned above , equalled 14% of our sample .
11 The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent .
12 The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up .
13 His duties included the preparation of a handbook of Instructions for the use of farriers attached to the British Cavalry and to the Honourable Board of Ordnance .
14 Studies on particular aspects of gastrulation or organogenesis will require their own set of parameters according to the specific system or process being studied .
15 When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques .
16 Tables I-IV show the numbers and univariate odds ratios of variables related to the sociodemographic ( table I ) , pregnancy ( table II ) , infant ( table III ) , and postnatal factors ( table IV ) .
17 There were a number of branches affiliated to the main club in England .
18 David Wallen ( 11 March ) gave us an interesting account of a series of blunders revealed to the Parliamentary Defence Committee at its annual consideration of the Trident programme .
19 From the case 3 curve we can decide on the percentage of accesses corresponding to the 10–90 per cent packing points , i.e. 11.1 per cent , 22.2 per cent , … of records .
20 Add to these an increasingly large posse of match-by-match prospects and the influx of youngsters attracted to the expanded indoor school and Kent are understandably optimistic about their immediate and long-term future .
21 The work of the former on jus cogens , the Draft Code of Offences against Mankind , and the concept of an international State crime and the consequences of the commission thereof all develop the concept of obligations owed to the international legal community , and possible third party responses to violation .
22 Jones , is responsible for the servicing of the Hebdomadal Council ( the body charged with the ultimate responsibility ‘ for the administration of the University and for the management of its finances and property ’ ) , for a wide range of matters relating to the general administration of the University , and for various ad hoc inquiries and working parties .
23 In 1975 the Polygram group of companies reverted to the old idea of paperless ‘ labels ’ for its ordinary seven-inch singles ( 36 ) .
24 There is a greater variety of descriptions to apply to the different areas this model takes into account outlying business districts which Burgess ' did not .
25 The complex of buildings belongs to the Italian Embassy .
26 Moreover , there has sometimes been reason to doubt the relevance of laws-of-war thinking to the important objective of strategic stability in relations between the nuclear powers .
27 Net Trust is a movement of Christians committed to the following purposes :
28 There is no way we can decipher properly the individual contributions that different pairs of atoms make to the total atomic distribution .
29 The Commission adopted interim measures for the first time in June 1991 in respect of aids granted to the French betting monopoly in the case referred to in the case study on pp. 238 — 43 .
30 The first , filed by The Lawyers Collective ( Bombay ) challenges the constitutionality of the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Act 1985 which gives the government sole right to sue on behalf of the Victims and takes away the right of individuals to go to the Supreme Court .
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