Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These regional ministries operate as a normal part of the Whitehall machine except that they are located in Scotland and Wales , and they have the normal right to membership of any Cabinet committees dealing with matters for which they take responsibility in their areas . |
| 2 | A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 4 | Liz makes the comment about care in the community and the back door to privatization of our care services . |
| 5 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 6 | Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave . |
| 7 | The median time to detection of HBV infection was 33 days ( range 6–224 ) in the five patients who received six grafts which developed progressive liver injury ( fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis or cirrhosis ) compared with 39 days ( range 26–331 ) in seven patients with recurrent HBV associated with mild liver disease . |
| 8 | As a further illustration of an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity in Western thought , we might refer to the mystical approach to nature of the poet Wordsworth , who claims to have felt in nature : |
| 9 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 10 | The principal claim to greatness of even the popes themselves , before the mid-eleventh century , lay in their conduct as bishops of Rome , building churches , organizing poor relief , and resisting the attempts of every tinpot contender for the empire to dominate the city and its people . |
| 11 | The annual cost to industry of secondment is about £25 million , according to the Directory of Social Change . |
| 12 | THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 . |
| 13 | The UK position was in part seen as being due to the personal antipathy to whaling of Agriculture Minister John Gummer , who declared on the eve of the conference that " the way we kill whales revolts and appals many people , among them myself " [ see also ED no. 46 ] . |
| 14 | Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard . |
| 15 | Conversely , the higher the rate of interest , the greater the additional cost to industry of financing new capital investment . |
| 16 | But second key-noter Dr Arno Penzias , vice president of Research at AT&T 's Bell Labs , who besides being a Nobel prize winner has the additional claim to fame of being the boss of Unix creators Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie , disagreed . |
| 17 | The early stages of the Reformation movement in Scotland have been played down , compared to the sudden rush to success of the Protestant party in 1559–6 . |
| 18 | Ideas about the pathophysiology of glue ear are changing , with attention shifting from obstruction of the eustachian tube to dysfunction of the tube and immunological mechanisms . |
| 19 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |
| 20 | Thereafter , both under our domestic law and under the Convention , the courts have the power and the duty to assess the ‘ pressing social need ’ for the maintenance of confidentiality ‘ proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued ’ against the basic right to freedom of expression and all other relevant factors . |
| 21 | This would explain the rapid rise to maturity of the likes of Marshall , Patterson and Ambrose . |
| 22 | It was a record attendance for a club game in Ireland and further illustrated the remarkable devotion to rugby of the city of Limerick . |
| 23 | The free-ranging behaviour of the police during the miner 's strike , for instance , provoked some alarm , since it appeared to negate the traditional approach to freedom of movement around the country . |
| 24 | The automatic reference to arbitration of a dispute involving a sum of less than £500 can be rescinded on the application of either party or on the motion of the district judge , but only on one ( or more ) specified grounds . |
| 25 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 26 | ‘ The longstanding nature of the difficulties and the poor response to treatment of those difficulties reduces the likelihood that any treatment programme would be successful . |
| 27 | The slight movements from the recovery cage brought her back to the present and she felt a great sense of relief as she watched the gradual return to consciousness of her patient . |
| 28 | This is much the sternest test to date of trainer Andy Turnell 's confidence that Country Member is a top staying handicapper in the making . |
| 29 | Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise . |
| 30 | Behind the wide , full mouth , the arrogant stare of the eyes , the dark , crimped , Pre-Raphaelite hair streaming in the wind , was a careful delineation of the headland , its objects disposed and painted with the meticulous attention to detail of a sixteenth-century primitive ; the Victorian rectory , the ruined abbey , the half-demolished pillbox , the crippled trees , the small white mill like a child 's toy and , gaunt against a flaming evening sky , the stark outline of the power station . |