Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Our growth over the years is in part due to the company 's commitment to recruitment selection and continued training , both in recessional times as well as in good .
2 In the case of pressure by customers , however , according to the court decision , the employer can only dismiss an employee if he faces substantial economic damage due to the customer 's threat to end his business relationship .
3 propel it along and make it a little bit different to the book erm with some of the other things , I mean for example if you erm get stuff off , I do n't know , for example people like Ian erm
4 Having become the political expression not just of the state appropriate to Ireland but of Irish catholics as well , the Irish nationalist tradition contained and still contains within its confines a culture of violence antithetical to the church 's traditional teaching .
5 The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents .
6 In this case , the songwriter should retain his or her songs ' copyrights , and the publisher is responsible for administering the song catalogues ( collecting the money payable to the writer 's songs ) .
7 Both of these , notably , represented conservative tendencies within the UCR favourable to the government 's current economic reform policies .
8 As the game appeared to be continuing quite happily without our help we discussed the case and agreed a settlement subject to the client 's approval , which was quickly obtained .
9 It necessitates active asset/liability management due to a bank 's exposure to currency fluctuations and volatile interest rates .
10 The instantaneous binary representation of phase angle at the adder 's output is offset from the original by a quantity proportional to the input 's value ( b ) .
11 In yet a second , spirited dawn attack on the 10th , his regiment had pushed the Germans out of another small wood adjacent to the Bois des Corbeaux .
12 It may be supported by the behaviour of a child sensitive to the parent 's feelings .
13 This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement .
14 This often requires analysis of parts of words — the elements in a compound like dog-sled , or the added meaning attributable to the suffix -er in opener compared to the verb open — over and above the sense of each word .
15 ‘ My Lady , ’ Cranston retorted , ‘ I would feel better — ’ he raised his voice to a bellow' — I would feel better if I got some custom , and the attention due to a King 's officer ! ’
16 A lease might purport to be made for the duration of the war subject to the tenant 's right to determine before the end of the war .
17 Allen told a conference prior to the company 's annual meeting that March calling volumes were strong , ‘ even discounting for some weather which popped it up a bit . ’
18 As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ .
19 The mother of a child ( alleged by an informant to be the victim of ill-treatment ) brought an action against the NSPCC for damages for nervous shock alleged to be the result of the society 's investigation pursuant to the informant 's complaint .
20 Stones , being mostly earth , have a natural place near the centre of the earth , while flames , being mostly fire , have a natural place near to the moon 's orbit , and so on .
21 Official party on steps of Cottrell Building prior to the Principal 's opening speech .
22 Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m .
23 They found a mean deviation due to the Sun 's gravitational field corresponding to 1.760 ±0.016 arcsec at the Sun 's limb , which is in excellent agreement with Einstein 's prediction .
24 The real owner , the mortgagor , could not convey any legal title because he had none ; and the legal owner , the mortgagee , could only convey a title subject to the mortgagor 's equity of redemption .
25 In particular , they will often have an unsatisfactory marital relationship , a factor central to a woman 's vulnerability to depression .
26 Such cases could be met by adopting for civil cases a procedure similar to the Attorney-General 's reference in criminal proceedings .
27 The nominal subject of such quarrels is of course secondary to the couple 's need to hurt each other , but in this case it appeared to centre on the Parsons ' childlessness .
28 Hence a hotelier may not , in a case which has resulted in the death of or personal injury to a lawful visitor due to the hotelier 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , rely upon a notice or clause which purports to exclude liability for such injury .
29 The benefits paid from the fund are taxed at the rate appropriate to the pensioner 's circumstances .
30 If this was the sleeping arrangement prior to the patient 's illness , the family may have to supply a fairly wide single bed for the patient , or the carer might sleep in a separate bed , leaving the normal conjugal bed to the patient .
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