Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 2 | Although pricing has not yet been decided , it will be kept low to appeal to the mass market . |
| 3 | He is not against the National Curriculum , and accepts O-levels needed updating , but feels the new system does little to indicate to the ordinary man in the street what is going on . |
| 4 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 5 | Tess Milner , the senior theatre sister , moved in , taking the baby and wrapping him in a blanket , leaving Niall free to attend to the unconscious woman . |
| 6 | As Stewart Young says above please feel free to write to the Editorial Team . |
| 7 | And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city . |
| 8 | You also need to be prepared to listen to the other person in return and allow them to tell you things . |
| 9 | He aimed , where he could , to take the industry out of party politics , but was willing to conform to the national interest where that was clearly defined by a Minister who had obvious Cabinet support . |
| 10 | The loan items will be transported to Edinburgh on Thursday 4 March , using the Library 's own vehicle , which is purpose-made to conform to the National Security Advisor 's guidelines . |
| 11 | I am always interested to listen to the long-extending memory of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) . |
| 12 | The European countries also appreciated that the need for the whole world recovery was important , and they became more willing to contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped countries . |
| 13 | Christopher Chope , the environment minister , disclosed in May that the Government was prepared to contribute to the professional advice costs of management buyout teams to a maximum of £132,000 . |
| 14 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 15 | He possessed considerable skill , had grace and power and was strong in the air , yet he was also willing to battle to the last whistle . |
| 16 | I have not seen Redmire myself , only pictures of it ; pictures always taken when the mist is rising , with a low sun providing back light to add to the eerie effect . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me it would be easier to get to the underground railway from the side street . |
| 18 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 19 | It would be more sensible to complain to the local trading standards department . |
| 20 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 22 | We thought it would be more sensible to move to the other side of the apartment ; if a shell hit the wall to which we were chained , we would n't stand a chance . |
| 23 | Now as Diana is free to return to the social world of her former friends she will realise that Lisa is rapidly becoming its new darling . |
| 24 | 2 Immediately upon receipt of the Selling Notice , the Company shall give notice in writing ( a " Compulsory Sale Notice " ) to each of the members ( other than the Seller ) giving the details contained in the Selling Notice , requiring them each to sell to the Proposed Purchaser at Completion [ all of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] / [ such proportion of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] as is equal to the proportion which the Selling Shares bears to the total holding of [ shares in the Ordinary Share Capital/ " A " Ordinary Shares ] held by the Seller ( including the Selling Shares ) ] . |
| 25 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 26 | It is easy to go to the odd verse or two in the Bible and conclude triumphantly that homosexuality is a great evil and homosexual practices can never be condoned . |
| 27 | As and when the experiment finished , it would be simple to revert to the original set-up . |
| 28 | He was also for much of the middle part of his life financially sufficiently insecure to look to the personal aid and patronage of others , including Claphamites , from whose psychologically stabilising intimacies he was excluded . |
| 29 | Neither the probate line of cases nor the donor line of cases is appropriate to apply to the present situation which is entirely different and I respectfully agree with the observations of Staughton L.J . |
| 30 | In that case , it would be easy to attribute to the chemical action of the sea the chemical decay already caused by subaerial weathering . |