Example sentences of "[conj] to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except where aridity can be countered by irrigation , low rainfall tends to monoculture and social instability or to the poorest type of cereal farming . |
| 2 | Second , there was the loss of certain responsibilities either to central government departments or to the regional structure of nationalised industries or services . |
| 3 | Respiratory signs may be due to larval damage in the lungs or to the anoxic effects of anaemia . |
| 4 | It can refer to geographical area as in planning or other land-based services , or to the administrative needs of personal services such as education . |
| 5 | Its aim is to see whether safeguards such as standards for prison conditions , independent inspectorates , and independent tribunals in internal disciplinary hearings , make any difference to the ‘ quality of life ’ of inmates or to the good running of the prisons , and whether a failure in the effectiveness of any one safeguard has any consequences for the effectiveness of others . |
| 6 | A state of emergency decreed by the HCS on Feb. 9 gave the Ministry of the Interior the power to designate " areas for the organized residence of non-residents " and to detain any adult " whose activity is clearly found to be constituting a danger to public order and security , or to the good running of public services " . |
| 7 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 8 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 9 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 10 | Any of its elements could be sent as part of a package , shaped either to the military job that needed doing or to the political reality of which countries were willing to join in . |
| 11 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 12 | or to the lazy benches of summer |
| 13 | Petre paid little attention either to the Irish dimension of Catholic relief or to the changing constituency of English Catholicism . |
| 14 | Subsidiaries acquired or sold during the year are included from the effective date of acquisition or to the effective date of disposal . |
| 15 | When his strength , therefore , or his speed , or his limbs , or his senses fail him , he is delivered over , either to absolute famine , or to the protracted wretchedness of a life slowly wasted by the scarcity of food . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the way in which the issues were formulated and the phrasing of the questions were such that no credence can be given to the findings of the survey or to the general conclusion of the Royal Commission that ‘ there was no evidence from this enquiry of productive effort being inhibited by the income tax structure within its present limits . ’ |
| 17 | Even more than Weber , he was indifferent to the historical contexts in which nation states had developed , or to the possible consequences of nationalism , imperialism ( which he does not mention ) and the rivalries between nation states . |
| 18 | This may be due to greater familiarity with the cost of lower priced letters or to the greater difficulty of keeping in mind which band of prices the weight related to in the body of the table . |
| 19 | The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine . |
| 20 | In the case of the reference for a preliminary ruling ( Case C 221/89 ) it will also be necessary , in connection with the second question before the court , to consider the requirements relating to the residence and domicile of the natural persons in question or to the principal place of business of the companies , and to the place of management , direction and control of the vessels . |
| 21 | The discrepancy of our results to the reported inhibitory action of cyclosporin A on renal prostaglandin formation may be caused by an organ selective effect of cyclosporin A or to the higher doses of cyclosporin A — that is , 50 mg/kg , used in studies on renal prostaglandin formation . |
| 22 | It would be an oversimplification to ascribe the deterioration of US-Cuban relations during 1959 and 1960 solely to cynical manoeuvrings on the part of Castro ( although these certainly took place ) or to the imperialist aggression of the United States ( although this was undoubtedly evident ) . |
| 23 | If their activities are unsuccessful , only another professional can say whether this was due to incompetence or to the inevitable workings of nature or society by which even the most competent practitioner would have been stymied . |
| 24 | There is to be no appeal to the intentions or capabilities of states , or to the human nature of their leaders . |
| 25 | That , thought Dalgliesh , would point to premeditation , or to the instinctive precaution of a knowledgeable expert . |
| 26 | The only inquiry has been the American one and that was handicapped because the British er er partners of er Price Waterhouse did n't pass on to either that inquiry or to the American partners of Price Waterhouse , the information they had about what had gone wrong with B C C I so that inquiry itself was inadequate but it is the only one and what that found er was appalling er indeed they were pretty critical about British audit regulation , about the auditors performance . |
| 27 | Under section 6(1) of the Act a court will not be able to pass a community sentence unless it is of the opinion that the offence ( or the combination of any two of the offences concerned ) is sufficiently serious to justify such a sentence ( it is a question of argument whether this is a reference to any kind of community sentence , or to the particular kind of community sentence which the court has in mind ) . |
| 28 | To be taken , in fact , for the perusal of certain pawnbrokers in St Jude 's Street , or to the back door of either the Beehive or the Dog and Gun . |
| 29 | The change may be due , the study says , to warmer winter conditions , or to the growing popularity of bird tables . |
| 30 | ( 1 ) Subsection ( 1 ) above shall not apply to off-sale premises or to the off-sale part of premises ( within the meaning of section 119 of this Act ) in respect of which a public house licence or hotel licence is held . |