Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Self-pity evaporates as she 's drawn to playground attendant Billy , unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most surviving examples are funerary , often commissioned quickly in response to unexpected death from disease , by no means uncommon in antiquity . |
| 18 | So come Sunday morning will another National winner be riding home in triumph to Central South ? |
| 19 | The full operations and defects of this approach have been explored elsewhere , both in relation to current expenditure ( Audit Commission , 1984 ; Travers , 1985 , 1987 ) and capital expenditure ( Jackson , 1984 ; Davies , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness . |
| 21 | Equally , there would be nothing to prevent private social work companies setting up in opposition to local authority and voluntary agency workers ; private training companies are already emerging . |
| 22 | By the Carboniferous many of the shapes we see in living gastropods can be matched in the fossils , but despite these similarities the majority of the Palaeozoic forms were not closely related to their living analogues ; this is another example of similar-looking forms evolving independently probably in response to similar life habits . |
| 23 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 24 | Table 3.1 gives a picture of the situation today in relation to social class and school attendance . |
| 25 | Certainly women 's mortality rates have improved significantly faster than those for men ( Table 3 ) , but it is difficult to come to any general conclusions about health status for the period 1870–1950 , particularly in respect to working class women . |
| 26 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |
| 27 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 28 | Some seek to keep the family together at all costs ; others , particularly in relation to sexual abuse , argue for the exclusion of the abuser from the home . |
| 29 | ( d ) To have a limited function in the examination of legislation particularly in relation to delegated legislation and European Secondary Legislation . |
| 30 | Since the Second World War , the United Nations Statistical Office has done much to stimulate a global view of economic and social problems particularly in relation to human fertility but the responsibility for gathering the required information is left with individual countries , the majority of which do not have resources of trained manpower to accomplish the task themselves . |