Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight clubs tied to an electronic stadium advertising deal stymied Bass and the rump of 14 are concerned at the influence of an elite eight . |
| 2 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 3 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 4 | Specific requests refer to a particular aspect of clarification , either a request for repetition , confirmation , or specification . |
| 5 | The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike . |
| 6 | The opening of East European borders led to a massive influx of those seeking work and political asylum and to the introduction in March 1990 of visa requirements for Romanians , Bulgarians and Turks [ see also p. 37969 ] . |
| 7 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |
| 8 | The boldness of Gandhi 's political tactics obscured to a large extent the modesty of his political aspirations , which were very much in line with what moderates , taking their cue from the British , had long set their sights upon : self-government within the empire . |
| 9 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 10 | It is , for example , often assumed that one sector of the community finances social services , while other sectors benefit from it ; that , in effect , social policies contribute to a massive redistribution from rich to poor . |
| 11 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 12 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 13 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |
| 14 | Some words apply to a wider historical debate e.g. " Victorianism " , " New Imperialism " , " Great Depression " , " Scramble for Africa " , " War Guilt " , " Cold War " . |
| 15 | OSI enables all the different manufacturers to work to a common set of standards . |
| 16 | A FORMIDABLE All Japan High Schools swept to a five game unbeaten tour record in B.C. in March scoring 41 tries to four in the process . |
| 17 | A team of German engineers assigned to a European Community ( EC ) project to repair the town 's water system ( damaged some months earlier ) had left the country on account of the fighting . |
| 18 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 19 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 20 | More than 700 applicants responded to a recent marketing director job ad , underlining the extent to which the recession has hit top management . |
| 21 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 22 | Some of the fiercest controversy about the pressure on land has focused on the issues of housing and housing land shortages in the south which have accompanied the economic boom in the region and social changes leading to an increasing number of households . |
| 23 | The 49 sucklers sold to a top price of £1,460 and £1,300 for pedigree Charolais cows and bull calves at foot presented by P McAllister , Glenarm . |
| 24 | Factory reorganisation , cost-cutting , team working , training and improved communications contributed to an immediate upturn in fortunes . |
| 25 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 26 | All cereals , fruits and vegetables contain some dietary fibre , but , just as the calorie content of different foods varies to a great degree , so does the fibre content of different plant foods . |
| 27 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 28 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 29 | The different emphases in the different courses leads to a particular problem for institutions with a fully modular structure . |
| 30 | focus ( iv ) : Historical issues relating to a selected text or group of texts : examples The specifically nineteenth-century idea of beauty in the nineteenth-century novel ; developments in the theatre immediately before the English Civil War ; representations of industrial life in early twentieth-century novels . |