Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] of " 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 | He argues that in the absence of diminishing returns to production of the intermediate or final good , or some element of product differentiation at intermediate or final levels , or the need for a firm 's intermediate product division to be held to being competitive , then vertically integrated firms will not participate in the intermediate good market . |
| 3 | As a result , by 2028 Britain could have the lowest ratio of public spending to GDP of any big economy . |
| 4 | Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer . |
| 5 | What is most alarming about this is not its inappropriate survivalist tone , the crudity with which racial identity is conceived nor even the sad inability to see beyond the conservation of racial identities to possibility of their transcendence . |
| 6 | In the absence of and equal treatment directive , the expectations of disabled people to equality of employment opportunity in Europe rest upon frail foundations . |
| 7 | Facts selected should be of critical importance to understanding of a principle . |
| 8 | The other two polls seek to confirm the rights of Irish women to freedom of travel and access to information about abortion abroad . |
| 9 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 10 | Proper zoning of the LFA is essential in order to relate levels of financial aid to degree of handicap experienced and MAFF ( and WOAD 's ) refusal to differentiate a proper zonation is a fundamental shortcoming on their parts . |
| 11 | His celebrated ‘ secret ’ works , mainly from his early years , include a series of masochistic self-portraits , subjects in the terrible gear of subjugation and self-disgust , studies of penis and pistil , and move with astonishing art to consideration of the body ( usually seen only in part ) as a piece of classical relief . |
| 12 | ( First bag can fit into orange bin to right of cooker ) |
| 13 | This has been achieved with close attention to aerodynamics of the whole vehicle with careful control of cooling airflow and a smooth floorpan with integrated exhaust system and fuel tank . |
| 14 | Attitudes to homosexuality and lesbianism in our society range from complete rejection to acceptance of it as a valid alternative to a heterosexual preference . |
| 15 | Realist science is a means of conceptual discovery based on the movement at any given level of analysis , from manifest phenomena to knowledge of the structures and mechanisms which generate them … . |
| 16 | There may be promises that it will be paid back in three months , in direct proportion to clearance of outstanding client debts . |
| 17 | Also moved sideways are Peter Lilley , from DTI to Social Security , Tony Newton from Social Security to Leader of the House of Commons , John MacGregor , from Leader of the House to Transport , and Malcolm Rifkind , from Transport to Defence . |
| 18 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 19 | SIR DAVID Frost 's transition from anti-establishment figure to pillar of the broadcasting hierarchy is charted in a three-part series starting tonight . |
| 20 | Sales of the product , whose yellow capsules contain natural minerals and vitamins to alleviate ailments ranging from pre-menstrual tension to lack of energy , have crashed by 30% to £1.9m . |
| 21 | The means of measuring response varied from attitudinal statements to degree of penile tumescence . |
| 22 | When it came to it , the fish sold as lanisticola looked , to the discerning eye , quite different — the face was yellow rather than blue , the tail was heavily banded rather than streaked along the rays , and — to my mind the most important point — the upper head profile was quite different : that of the ‘ real ’ livingstonii being very like Ps. zebra , ie a humped forehead above a concave snout , while ‘ lanisticola ’ — as convex from upper lip to top of head , rather like Ps. tropheops . |
| 23 | A common practice of ‘ transition ’ is that from special school to college of further education . |
| 24 | He 's the sea captain in charge of this sinking ship whose character switches from Mr Nice Guy to raging megalomaniac to hero of the day — all in less than two hours . |
| 25 | The second is the more recent Convention on International Access to Justice of 25 October 1980 , which is concerned with the extension of legal aid and advice schemes to parties from other States ; this convention is in force , but has no ratifications from common law countries . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 27 | More recently , she worked as special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and his successor John Major , moving with Mr Major to Number 10 when he became prime minister . |