Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 2 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 3 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 4 | Only reference to the Artifical Horizon can be relied upon to indicate when steady flight has been achieved . |
| 5 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 6 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 7 | This change came about not because we were getting too big for our binding , rather we felt we could do better justice to the rich pageant of life at Sainsbury 's with more elbow room . |
| 8 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 9 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 10 | National coach Frank Dick went to collect the quartet for the 7.15am bus to the Olympic Stadium , and was amazed to find them still asleep . |
| 11 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 12 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |
| 13 | A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir said that he did not see " any change or sign of moderation " in the PNC resolutions and that the PLO " was not party to the political process and we will not negotiate with it " . |
| 14 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 15 | The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’ |
| 16 | On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down . |
| 17 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 18 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 19 | He was also consultant to the Presidential Task Force on Human Rights . |
| 20 | He was formerly secretary to the National Trust . |
| 21 | The sensor measures alkalinity and when the level falls below a pre-set value it activates a pump that delivers product from a bulk container to the tank in sufficient quantity to make up solution to the desired strength . |
| 22 | It represents both the washing from the stain and defilement of sin and also death to the old way of living and the beginning of a new resurrection life . |
| 23 | For instance , if you fall on the back of your head , there 's often damage to the opposite side of your brain — bruising , contusion , sometimes even laceration . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly , this is why our participants often resort to the second form of reciprocation when dealing with offences of a demeaning nature . |
| 25 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 26 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 27 | In February 1916 , when the battle opened , the Western Front ran south from the Ostend area , east to Verdun and then roughly southeast to the Swiss frontier . |
| 28 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 29 | Even where there is some attempt to account for female/male differences in deviant behaviour , the explanation may simply resort to the simplistic notion that sex roles are generally differentiated . |
| 30 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |