Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying necessarily in response to that resolution , but at least in the direction that we were hoping . |
| 2 | The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores . |
| 3 | The points made by Freud in the theory of psychoanalysis are tentative , especially in relation to female sexuality and to the sequences involved in psycho-sexual development . |
| 4 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 5 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 6 | Leeds , Leicester , and the Open University geology departments do not feature very highly in relation to Scottish geology , but Cambridge , Oxford , Edinburgh and Durham score well in most of the bibliometric indicators studied here . |
| 7 | So in addition to standard depreciation allowances , certain designated sectors can write off another 25 per cent of the investment against tax in the first year , while in energy saving or robotic investment the rate has gone as high as 60 per cent . |
| 8 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 9 | Lawrence Kohlberg 's empirical work on moral development follows , as far as its basic stance is concerned , the structure and assumptions of Jean Piaget , who has demonstrated apparently invariant sequences of change , not only in relation to moral development , but in other areas , too . |
| 10 | I suggest that these meanings arise from everyday discourse , which habitually makes use of oppositions such as masculinity/femininity , science/arts — oppositions which make sense only in relation to each other . |
| 11 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 12 | The noun ‘ dependent ’ is an ugly label , implying that a person exists only in relation to another person . |
| 13 | But it was the ritual tramp across Ilkley Moor — or Rombalds Moor , as it is more properly but less popularly known that was the favourite pilgrimage ( and so it remains , to the extent that the track through the purple heather has been worn down in part to bare rock ) . |
| 14 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
| 15 | Between 1860 and 1930 , some 5 per cent ( often characterized by the common denominator of illiteracy ) of the city 's population appeared annually in court , almost entirely in relation to minor street incidents — from ‘ suspected persons ’ to the moral iniquity of riding a pedal cycle without lights . |
| 16 | This means that the court can not take account of the various breaches actually committed , for which the defendant is seeking protection under the clause , to decide if the clause is reasonable or not , either generally , or separately in relation to each breach . |
| 17 | Gabriel moved away in silence to another seat . |
| 18 | It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role . |
| 19 | Self-pity evaporates as she 's drawn to playground attendant Billy , unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len . |
| 20 | It was pointed out that the Northern Ireland Council on Disability was in the process of investigating the services different agencies are providing for disabled people — not just in relation to physical access , but also in relation to access to the network of information on different services and projects which exclude disability interests . |
| 21 | Any hit from this weapon drains one point of S , T , or W ( roll D6 : 1–2 S , 3–4 T , 5–6 W ) permanently in addition to normal damage . |
| 22 | Section 68 states , in essence , that if the Secretary of State is satisfied that any local education authority is acting unreasonably in relation to any power conferred on it , the Secretary may give directions as to the exercise of that power . |
| 23 | Overall he used the phrase in nine letters between 1101 and 1106 , always in relation to papal policy : they were written to the pope and cardinals , to Hugh of Lyons , to the count of Flanders , to the king of Jerusalem , to Henry I , and to the prior of Canterbury in describing the condition on which the pope had agreed to give absolution to the count of Meulan . |
| 24 | This need arose not merely because of switches in statutory and other economic factors outside the control of the Group , but because the Group needed to develop the ability to expand , amalgamate , contract or transfer depots quickly in response to changing market demand . |
| 25 | Most surviving examples are funerary , often commissioned quickly in response to unexpected death from disease , by no means uncommon in antiquity . |
| 26 | Section 10(3) ( b ) goes further : ( b ) any failure to do more in relation to any matter than is required by — ( i ) any safety regulations imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( ii ) any standards if safety approved for the purposes of this subsection by or under any such regulations and imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( iii ) any provision of any enactment or subordinate legislation imposing such requirements with respect to that matter as are designated for the purposes of this subsection by any such regulations . |
| 27 | So come Sunday morning will another National winner be riding home in triumph to Central South ? |
| 28 | I did n't make any bread out of it , just me own gear , like , and I was still in debt to this lad who was laying it on me . |
| 29 | On the contrary , the most telling message which these interviews have to convey is the great variety not only in circumstance , but also in responses to later life of the older generation in the earlier part of this century . |
| 30 | Assumptions and expectations which lie behind an inter-agency approach require to be made more explicit in order that agencies , and individuals within agencies , are absolutely clear about where they stand , not only in relation to the paramount concern of protecting the child , but also in relation to each other . |