Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in large measure due to their senior commanders ; men like Brigadier Charles Haydon , whose report of February 1941 had done much to shape the commandos from an unwieldy collection of Troops expected to act independently , to a cohesive force of raiders in units suited to their various roles — the SBS for recce , the complete Commando for raids in force . |
| 2 | Both types of handwritten text are more difficult to process than machine-printed text due to their greater variability . |
| 3 | Mme Guérigny once told me that Jean-Claude 's weakness was in part due to his exemplary sensitivity and in part to the damp in the cave , which had affected his lungs and his joints . |
| 4 | However I do feel that it has been somewhat claustrophobic , and I was very limited in the scope of my function due to our geographical location . |
| 5 | DOS is not the most efficient operating system for the modern PC due to its backward compatibility with older versions . |
| 6 | If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it . |
| 7 | According to Bagi , DEC secured the stock exchange contract due to its good references in Hungary , its ability to replace any component in eight hours , and the size of its local presence . |
| 8 | It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation . |
| 9 | It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height . |
| 10 | Dynamics are handled with unusual force due to its solid bass , and musical architecture is not , for once , underplayed . |
| 11 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 12 | The Medical Defence Union , in its pamphlet entitled ‘ consent to Treatment ’ , advises that ‘ a patient who is compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act must submit to treatment for his mental disorder whether or not he agrees ’ , but that ‘ if a compulsorily detained patient develops a condition unrelated to his mental disorder , then only such treatment as is immediately necessary to preserve his life and health may be given without his consent . ’ |
| 13 | The problem with capitalism was not that it would fall , but that it would continue its remarkable success in raising real output and real consumption per capita , which in turn would have the effects of undermining those very social institutions on which its success depended , and creating a civilisation hostile to its continued existence . |
| 14 | THE REFEREE at the centre of the Dinamo Tbilisi bribes scandal DID accept the 5,000 dollars offered by the Georgian club prior to their European Cup match with Linfield . |
| 15 | ‘ There is no doubt that had Mavis Thomas arrived in the department prior to her cardiac arrest , then it is likely that she would not have died . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , ’ she cried , holding the light close to her bruised cheek . |
| 17 | If the capital asset is sold before the end of its useful life , there may be a gain or loss relative to its written-down value . |
| 18 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 19 | MEDACT ( Medical Action For Global Security , 601 Holloway Road , London N19 4DJ ) , is making this important human rights issue central to its educational programme and campaign this year . |
| 20 | The Pankhurst-led WSPU made the twin issues of male immorality and white slavery central to their whole campaign in 1913 , as part of a new militant offensive . |
| 21 | Nigel had been out there several times for the commissioning of lights which he had designed , and I gathered that the alternator was a piece of equipment redundant to their present requirements . |
| 22 | A benefit equal to your monthly loan repayment , or a proportion of it . |
| 23 | In the event of unemployment or disability : - a benefit equal to your monthly loan repayment , or proportion thereof . |
| 24 | A benefit equal to your monthly repayment PLUS the return of the monthly insurance premium . |
| 25 | Their steepness leads one to infer modern erosion due to their great exposure , but there is no wavecut bench to indicate any erosion . |
| 26 | As Ahlquist wrote later , ‘ The original paper was rejected by the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics , was loser in the Abel Award competition , and finally was published in the American Journal of Physiology due to my personal friendship with a great physiologist , W. F. Hamilton ’ . |
| 27 | PUCK FAIR , currently the object of much attention due to their innovative approach to Irish music , play a short series of Irish dates over the coming days . |
| 28 | ( v ) In redrafting their writing , pupils should be encouraged to think about ways of making their meaning clear to their intended reader . |
| 29 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 30 | Now the energy L(T) received per unit time contains a factor due to the increase in time interval between photons and another factor due to their red shift . |