Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft .
2 The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment .
3 If true this undermines any claim to efficiency made for the market economy .
4 He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction .
5 Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs .
6 ‘ If that is their view , then I 'm not prepared to send another horse to Taunton , ’ said the Lambourn handler .
7 This time NEC used a US industrial design firm , Ideo Inc , for design of the exterior of the products , but denies that this presages any move to sales of the workstations in overseas markets .
8 This time NEC used a US industrial design firm , Ideo Inc , for design of the exterior of the products , but denies that this presages any move to sales of the workstations in overseas markets .
9 None of this brought much comfort to William Joyce .
10 It is reportedly willing to devote more resources to advertising and promoting the Esix version of Unix .
11 ‘ It would be easier to get this back to London than to get an insurance assessor out here , ’ I added on the spur of the moment .
12 This removed all obstacles to union activity at plant level and granted time and facilities .
13 The interaction is mediated by the domain 1 GFCC'C sheet , specifically the CC' and FG loops , and as such shows some similarity to antibody V domain and CD8 dimerization , but there are also substantial differences .
14 It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist .
15 And as Chancellor , if not as Transport Secretary , he might be sufficiently prominent to get that invitation to Desert Island Discs and have the Shotts Pipe Band playing over the airwaves .
16 However , it should be possible to identify such specimens to genus and often to species from the remaining characters .
17 " Nor have I , " said Maurice , quick to disclaim any pretence to superiority , " I got the idea from a postcard someone sent me .
18 as Purchasing and Contract Department Quality manager Owen Edis explains , ‘ we encourage our managers to give recognition for a job well done , so it was natural to extend this recognition to suppliers .
19 It is to be hoped that the outcome of consultations on policy on the abuse of market power will result in legislative proposals along the lines of Article 86 , to join the existing White Paper proposals for an Article 85-type law on restrictive practices , and that the government will see fit to give some priority to legislation .
20 This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back .
21 I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition .
22 So little is needed that one small frog an inch long produces enough poison to arm fifty arrows .
23 We 're all ripping each other to pieces here
24 Nurses should become more knowledgeable , and able to apply such knowledge to patient care , and encourage the development of professional competence in the delivery of individualised care to patients .
25 Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m .
26 Margaret denied herself , dressing in modest clothes and eating plain food , in order to be able to give more help to others .
27 Small scale research suggests that when children are relieved of the burden of hand-writing and hand-rewriting stories they are able to give more attention to structure and composition .
28 I hope that we will be able to give some protection to people like James , people who are in a very weak position .
29 In this extreme case , the velocity of circulation falls as all increases in the money supply are added to ‘ idle ’ balances , and monetary policy is powerless to drive down interest rates and , therefore , is unable to give any stimulus to investment or consumption .
30 Onshore , our plant change engineering [ PCE ] contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and we were successful in being able to extend this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran .
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