Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So in contrast to the mediator , who fears and avoids conflict , the followers of Jesus are fully equipped to fight the good fight of faith . |
| 32 | An important general rule was in an Act passed in 1967 , which allowed arrest without a warrant for murder or for any other crime for which the jail sentence could be five years or more , but this was merely in addition to the motley of other provisions . |
| 33 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 34 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 35 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 36 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 37 | Champagne 's harvest must therefore reach a reasonable level of ripeness and as the ripening process , or véraison the French call it , increases the sugar content , the high degree of acidity necessary for these wines is important only in ratio to the sugar content . |
| 38 | Rich is personal expression and influence we mix pigment not only in response to the subject , but through our mood at the time of painting . |
| 39 | I had used it only in reference to the night sky and the Zodiac . |
| 40 | 'shin " d " encodes past activity , but only in relation to the utterance 's internal system of time referencing which has already been set up and controlled by the deictic references of earlier elements . |
| 41 | Moreover , as will emerge in later chapters , segregation became the order of the day , not only in relation to the world outside the house , but in the arrangement of its internal plan . |
| 42 | Her mind was self-referring and exclusive as theirs were not — impersonal only in relation to the teasing-out of the intellectually taxing problem . |
| 43 | The ecological model starts from the position that the growth and development of children can be understood only in relation to the nature of their interactions with the various environments which impinge on them and with which they are constantly interacting . |
| 44 | Unlike modernist works that give the illusion of being autonomous in their surroundings , and which function critically only in relation to the language of their own tradition , site-specific works emphasise the comparison between two separate languages . |
| 45 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 47 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 48 | Among them was In His Name , which was put together in response to the need expressed by the Conference of the International Missionary Council held at Willengen in Germany in 1952 , for a book which would help missionary-minded Christians pray for the Church and the World in a way integrated in the full range of Christian faith and worship . |
| 49 | The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing . |
| 50 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 51 | erm in education I am confident that erm schools and colleges will operate their delegated budgets very successfully and erm I think they will do so without detriment to the Education Service . |
| 52 | There are still libraries where books and materials themselves are kept on " closed access " , in other words available only on request to the library staff ; the catalogue carries the whole burden of revealing to the clientele the contents of the stock , by subject or author or whatever " retrieval handle " is thought to be worth displaying . |
| 53 | ( 1 ) If the claim is for money secured by a mortgage or charge , legal or equitable , judgment may be entered only on application to the district judge on notice to the defendant ( Ord 9 , r 7 ) . |
| 54 | He followed the tracks of a car driven apparently at speed to the edge of the reed bed . |
| 55 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 56 | But this idea is not easily generalizable unless we suppose that the justification is achieved less by appeal to the pig than by appeal to the fact that there is a pig before me ; the fact , in this instance , causes the belief . |
| 57 | It is only by reference to the contribution of ‘ environment ’ , both social and physical , to the spread of heroin use that conclusions might be drawn as to why heroin use reached ‘ epidemic ’ proportions in such a short space of time in the Wirral area . |
| 58 | If an expert sues for his fees , the entitlement and/or the amount could be challenged in court only by reference to the contract made by the parties about the fees . |
| 59 | The mood of deregulation is tempered only by reference to the need to assure the public of the competence of providers of legal services . |
| 60 | The value of this idea can really be judged only by reference to the value of the whole explanatory framework of ‘ indefinite ’ science , at whose basis it lies . |