Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MP for Norfolk South West , which she won in 1987 , she was a key member of Mr Major 's leadership team , working under the Chancellor Norman Lamont , and was rewarded for her efforts by being promoted from parliamentary under secretary for Social Security to Minister of State at the Treasury responsible for VAT , Customs and Excise , and harmonisation of EC taxes . |
| 2 | The interesting question is whether the reform to regulations regarding fee structures in 1982 and , to a lesser extent , the greater freedom architects enjoyed from about this time to practice in a less restrictive manner have influenced the pattern of events . |
| 3 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 4 | Fletchers are famous for their forward planning , and so it was off to another aquatic centre , this time for some mortar to bed down the perimeter slabs . |
| 5 | Chronic otitis media with effusion , or glue ear , is the commonest reason in children for elective admission to hospital for surgery . |
| 6 | Grounds for making order under section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 — whether risk of economic damage to defendant pending prosecution sufficient grounds |
| 7 | They found that less than one-half of total lending to industry in the UK had a maturity of less than one year in 1980 , with a similar percentage for France and West Germany , and an even higher one for Japan . |
| 8 | Effect of acute exposure to alcohol on gastrin release |
| 9 | A thought crept unbidden to her mind , causing a rush of liquid heat to course through her . |
| 10 | ‘ She was proud of that piece to camera at the end , ’ murmured Terry , in his flat London accent . |
| 11 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State believes that Polytechnics — and indeed other colleges which are suitably staffed and equipped — should be able to make a valuable contribution to the research needs of industry on their own distinctive lines and particularly in specialist fields of direct interest to industry in their areas . |
| 13 | That will bring it to 42 per cent. , which is way below the peak in previous cycles and way below the proportion of public expenditure to GDP under the last Labour Government in similar conditions . |
| 14 | The plan had succeeded in reducing the annual rate of inflation from 70 to 10 per cent , and had reduced the ratio of public debt to GDP from 206 to 132 per cent . |
| 15 | The opening up of public procurement to competition beyond national borders is a good example of what the single market is all about . |
| 16 | As a result , by 2028 Britain could have the lowest ratio of public spending to GDP of any big economy . |
| 17 | THE DEATH of Harry Boot on 8 February at the age of 65 removes a distinguished figure from those who contributed in an outstanding way to the successful application of British science to radar during the Second World War . |
| 18 | It is therefore important to have all of this information to hand before beginning the installation procedure . |
| 19 | When trying to relate the global structure of this solution to part of the Schwarzschild space-time , it should be emphasised that for this class of colliding plane waves the coordinate is not periodic but covers the full range . |
| 20 | He was given a job in the store , with the promise of speedy promotion to management within six months . |
| 21 | The meagre returns from tillage stimulated the conversion of arable land to pasture for sheep , which was proceeding actively in the early decades of the century . |
| 22 | Figures 3 and 4 show the curves of duodenal resistance to acid in rats fed the linoleic and the eicosapentaenoic acid diets , respectively . |
| 23 | Figure 6 shows the curves of duodenal resistance to acid after mild acid irritation ( 100 µmol HCl ) in rats pretreated with indomethacin . |
| 24 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 25 | The moon causes another rhythm , which has little influence on us but is of profound importance to life along the shore , and that is the rhythm of the tides . |
| 26 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 27 | Facts selected should be of critical importance to understanding of a principle . |
| 28 | CA is also porting a string of proprietary software to Unix including : Masterpiece Financials , its decision support and accounting software ; SuperProject , a project management tool ; DataCom , a relational database and Telon , its own application development environment . |
| 29 | We will enforce science-based controls on the use of chemicals in food production , and will maintain our policy of open access to information on pesticide safety . |
| 30 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |