Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some relief to come to the Bolivian town of Copacabana with its huge white cathedral . |
| 2 | First , there are administrative costs incurred by individuals and firms as they attempt to adjust to the new set of prices . |
| 3 | And bobbying and what it means , if you have eye on writing this sort of book , is what you will first have to absorb to the very marrow of your bones . |
| 4 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |
| 5 | It aims to relate to the main area of the job description , but also leaves space for people to say what seems to them significant with more freedom . |
| 6 | The difference yields a political meaning , in other words , and it would also appear to relate to the old theory of the difference between an author who tells and an author who shows , and who employs a medley of voices in order to do so . |
| 7 | The beginning of the decade saw storm clouds gathering over Europe with displays of militarism and aggressiveness which were ultimately to lead to the Great War of 1914–18 when millions of soldiers died in the mud-filled trenches of Flanders and experienced other horrors such as Gallipoli . |
| 8 | She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader . |
| 9 | This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions . |
| 10 | These grades have to conform to the normal curve of distribution . |
| 11 | The commissioners made their decision to apply Objective 1 only to areas covered by the regional and islands councils because of regulations requiring funding areas to conform to the French system of prefectures . |
| 12 | In order to conform to the conventional direction of the papillomavirus genome the octamer sequence has been written as ATTTGCAT rather than the complementary sequence ATGCAAAT which is more often presented . |
| 13 | A very much richer reading is obtained , by way of alternative , by stressing how a perception of the arbitrary nature of social divisions and of socio-cultural class stereotypes underlies Chaucer 's composition here , and that he invites his readers — those who do not wish to conform to the naive stereotype of the " " gentil wight " " — to share this insight . |
| 14 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 15 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 16 | He stopped every now and then to listen to the patient lapping of the water , the light breeze in the leaves , scurries and sounds in the wood which he could not identify but which helped to reinforce the solitude he needed . |
| 17 | I am always interested to listen to the long-extending memory of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) . |
| 18 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 19 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 20 | We 'll have to cross to the other side of the plain now to find anything . " |
| 21 | With the candle-flame held close to the page , listening for the measured tread of the warder on the stone-flagged corridor outside , he would allow his thoughts to escape to the sun-drenched wilderness of Coral Island ; to the wind-swept moors of Wuthering Heights . |
| 22 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 23 | Thus , when a series of Egyptian canopic jars of blue glass purporting to belong to the New Kingdom of the second millennium BC came under suspicion stylistically , they were analysed and found to contain high levels of lead and some arsenic , thereby confirming the doubts of the Egyptologists . |
| 24 | In the short run this new body is seen by the Commission as a useful means of delaying or diverting the application of countries such as Austria which want to belong to the inner core of the 12 European Community states . |
| 25 | If it is to be regarded as a genuine composition from the court of Cadwallon , it would seem to belong to the very eve of Hatfield . |
| 26 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 27 | To revert to the trivial example of the letter posting : one would be willing to applaud the lack of certainty accepted by the person who resists the temptation to follow someone down the street and check whether a letter has been posted . |
| 28 | A control room duty manager ordered staff to revert to the manual logging of emergency system early yesterday after the computer slowed down . |
| 29 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 30 | It should not always be necessary to stick to the traditional layout of interviewer behind a desk and candidate in a chair immediately in front , as if about to undergo an interrogation . |