Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I left school a stone overweight while my father was already dead due to a heart attack at the age of 59 . |
2 | A search of the PPT promoter DNA sequence for other cis acting elements potentially functioning as regulators of expression revealed a region highly homologous to a region present in the rat type II Na channel promoter ( 8 ) ( Fig. 1 ) . |
3 | It was not settled whether the indemnity be void under s 2(1) or only subject to a reasonableness test under s 4 . |
4 | With specific regard to Franco , he was now seen as militarily and personally indispensable to a rebel victory . |
5 | It is remarkably similar to a sheep disease known as ‘ scrapie ’ , and a rare human disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jacob ( CJ ) disease , which culminates in senility . |
6 | He noted with interest that the cockpit instrument panel was remarkably similar to a car dash-board ; even the airspeed was shown in miles per hour instead of knots . |
7 | It must also be remembered that a written admission of liability at an early stage could have dire consequences if the third party 's medical condition , without warning , drastically deteriorates and such deterioration is not due to a NOVUS ACTUS |
8 | I am on a , ’ her pause was not due to a transmission fault , ‘ fact-finding tour of the outlying regions , and took the opportunity to contact you directly . |
9 | This increase will be largely due to a 30% fall in US oil production . |
10 | The increase was largely due to a 47pc drop in the group 's interest charge , to £6.3m from £11.8m , coupled with an increase in operating profit . |
11 | A surge in borrowings from 29% to 55% of shareholders ' funds was largely due to a buying spree during the year when NFC shelled out £75m on 16 businesses . |
12 | The relationship between the size of a dowry and status makes the dowry system easily adaptable to a class society , which means that as the economies of the villages move unevenly towards capitalism the dowry system remains of vital significance both as an essential accompaniment to and a reflection of this change . |
13 | A similar , one day , version is attended by contractors ' staff not subject to a period Contract . |
14 | Point B represents a state of labour market clearance : the curve which passes through point B is the usual notional demand for labour function which would apply if employers were not subject to a sales constraint in the goods market . |
15 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
16 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
17 | It would be exactly similar to a bank loan , to be undertaken on the same terms , and at the same rates of interest — if you are agreeable ? ’ |
18 | However , the effect was not dissimilar to a wash trade , if we assume that the option writer was not acting for bona fide commercial motives , but solely to support the share price . |
19 | For the term obtained from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , in the real image term of equation ( 6 ) , if r is not equal to a substrate atom position β i in a transform , the summations give rise to a small value because the scattering factors and the exponents are oscillating complex functions in the transform ; when r is equal to tend to cancel out the scattering path length contributions and the scattering factors to unity , and summations should produce a large value . |
20 | This involved presenting a priming word just prior to a target letter string . |
21 | However , an attractively designed computer is less likely to fall within the scope of registered designs because a person buying a computer is more interested in the performance of the computer ; its appearance is not important to a material extent , although it must be acknowledged that the Design Registry and the courts took a fairly liberal attitude prior to the changes to the 1949 Act and are likely to continue to be generous in this respect . |
22 | If a referral is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds , it is not open to a health authority , wherever it is , ultimately to refuse to honour an ECR . |
23 | A pass in the Leaving Certificate awarded up to and including 1976 is regarded as approximately equivalent to a Northern Ireland GCE ‘ O ’ level pass . |
24 | A pass in the Leaving Certificate awarded up to and including 1976 is regarded as approximately equivalent to a Northern Ireland GCE ‘ O ’ level pass . |
25 | The occupier was held not liable to a window cleaner who was injured when a defective window closed suddenly , causing him to fall . |
26 | you are not entitled to a redundancy payment ; and |
27 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
28 | If you are not entitled to a State pension in your own right , you will receive the dependant 's rate of benefit , i.e. about 60 per cent of the full rate ( or less if your husband is not entitled to a full pension ) . |
29 | Beneficiaries will continue to receive all payments with a tax credit at 35%. 27 Under current law , trustees of non-resident discretionary trusts are not entitled to a tax credit on a dividend but are taxed on the amount of the dividend received . |
30 | This is very narrow , more akin to a country lane , with few passing places , but is relatively traffic free . |