Example sentences of "[adj] to [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was clear to each that the other would not speak , Therese said , ‘ But you do n't look happy , my darling , that 's often the way it goes . |
| 2 | Stringent control may be placed on an industrial plant in an area of non-compliance while an identical plant in an area of compliance may be subject to little or no control . |
| 3 | Experts are a distinct species of dispute resolver whose activities are subject to little or no control by the court , from whose decisions there is no appeal , but who may nevertheless be liable for negligence in performing these otherwise unreviewable functions . |
| 4 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 5 | Where am I to go ? ’ and song-titles like ‘ Kosmos ’ and ‘ Into Tomorrow ’ are meaningless to all but the author . |
| 6 | His father had decided while his son was still very young to give him instruction in using a steerage-drill , a machine to drill or sow the corn : this was an operation that demanded a high degree of skill and also care not to jeopardize one 's own reputation because any mistake one made in the drilling would be visible to all when the crop came up . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 8 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 9 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 10 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
| 11 | The excess is applicable to each and every occurrence therefore in the event of say two items being damaged in the same occurrence , the excess shown on the Policy Schedule will be deducted once . |
| 12 | The obvious conclusion is that skiing has become a mature industry , which will have to get used to little or no growth . |
| 13 | And the vast majority of the benefits offered by HSA SuperPlan are available to each and every person covered , each and every year — all for just one weekly payment . |
| 14 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 15 | Nor did it seem apparent to all that the war fought at sea , the damage which might be inflicted upon enemy vessels and morale , and the consequences which victory at sea could have for those who lived in areas close to coasts , were all part of a wider war which could not be restricted to the fighting on land . |
| 16 | Right : A tropical chiggoe flea that has burrowed into the sole of a foot , gorged itself , laid eggs and been squeezed out , having grown from less than one millimetre wide to more than a centimetre . |
| 17 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 18 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 19 | It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism . |
| 20 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 21 | Since childhood in la Sologne — a part of France largely unknown to any but the French — where the two had roamed unfettered throughout years of sunlit days , their relationship never changed , never matured . |
| 22 | Since " n " is the input variable to the function it is local to each and every use of the function . |