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

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1 The chemicals , including substances such as DDT , long banned in the rest of Germany , as well as formulations never subject to safety testing in the West , are left over from the pre-unification production of East German industries .
2 The first £2000 of this loan is subject to interest charged at the Abbey National Building Society 's current rate , changing as the rate varies .
3 After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings .
4 this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident .
5 This is true to a large extent in that the liabilities prior to completion remain with the vendor unless the purchaser agrees to accept them .
6 Car parks in accessible areas like Glencoe have been full to capacity according to the area 's rescue team , which has recorded as many as 150 people going up Stob Coire nan Lochan in one morning .
7 All the dimensional and mechanical changes in wood which are due to moisture occur below the fibre saturation point , that is between 0 per cent and 25 per cent moisture content .
8 The flooding followed a 10–15 o list to port , due to water pouring into the forward ballast tanks .
9 Genetic effects of radiation are likely to be predominantly due to damage induced in the DNA molecular structure .
10 Under such conditions , it is assumed that there would have been no ‘ real ’ changes in the child 's language and that any differences in the two test scores would be due to error arising from the limitations of the test itself ( see Chapter 7 ) .
11 Nationwide , 17.6 per cent of all deaths in 1839 were due to TB according to the Registrar-General 's first national analysis of causes of death .
12 A damp patch on a chimney breast can also be due to condensation forming within the flue , especially if it is a disused chimney with fireplaces blocked up .
13 Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud .
14 Finally , it must be remembered that where odour nuisance arises from outside the workplace , affecting employees inside the workplace , for example from a nearby factory or due to manure spreading in the surrounding fields , then sections 92 to 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 will apply should the odour amount to a statutory nuisance , since the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 amended s.92(1) ( d ) of the Public Health Act 1936 to ‘ any dust or effluvia caused by a trade , business or manufacture or process which are prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ deleting the words [ to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood ] .
15 That is , a person may treat extra income differently from main unemployment ( and supplementary ) benefits and expected earnings perhaps due to uncertainty attached to the receipts of some benefits ( Jenkins and Miller , 1989 ) .
16 Human readers can understand many badly formed letters and seemingly illegible words due to information gained from the surrounding context .
17 Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops .
18 to holders of Ordinary Shares who shall have elected to receive an allotment of equity securities in lieu of any dividend pursuant to authority given to the Directors ; and
19 As it is a completely physiologically induced , and in that sense artificial , phenomenon , some of the criteria relevant to memory summarized at the beginning of this chapter are not relevant at this stage .
20 Further evidence that children are attentive to Conventionality comes from the repairs they make to their own lexical choices .
21 The deposit does constitute clients ' money and the seller is entitled to interest earned on the deposit money in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 .
22 The vowel /a/ is particularly sensitive to variation according to the network structure of the speaker ; but women appear to correlate their choice of variant more closely with their personal network structure than do men .
23 A driver is sensitive to minute shifts in the pressures on his hand and in the rhythm of the engine , with an intensity of concentration which when tiring he sustains by an effort of will ; but most of the time he does not ponder alternatives , apply principles , or make decisions , his hands are as though moving of themselves .
24 Place or space deixis concerns the specification of locations relative to anchorage points in the speech event .
25 In the first instance , the study concentrates on the professions supplementary to medicine employed within the NHS .
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