Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under that system , the Eurocheque is free of charge to its payee , the costs being borne by the drawer . |
| 2 | We are also pleased to announce the introduction of the undernoted services free of charge to our Autocover policyholders : — |
| 3 | Wilson and Glick have now added this most luxurious of timbers to their range of kitchens . |
| 4 | Although in the end William IX of Aquitaine failed to make good his wife 's right of succession to her father in Toulouse , a generation earlier his father Guy Geoffrey had succeeded in annexing Gascony , pleading in justification his father 's marriage with the heiress Prisca . |
| 5 | At the time of their child 's birth , the parents of case and control children were similar with respect to their age , distance of residence from a nuclear establishment , and social class ( table III ) . |
| 6 | But it is , in fact , a form of protein called keratin , similar in composition to our finger and toenails . |
| 7 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I am very grateful to Wedgwood for sponsoring me and I have found the course work to be very valuable in relation to my job . |
| 9 | To have used the booklet is associated with more positive attitudes towards its general utility ; teachers who recall it well hold more positive attitudes towards its general utility and flexibility and effectiveness than those who have not ; as might be expected , teachers who associate changes in school with the use of the booklet hold more positive attitudes towards its general utility than those who do not ; teachers in schools in the less prosperous northern part of the borough are less negative with respect to its efficiency . |
| 10 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 11 | The success of Windows is due in part to its ability to keep several applications active at the same time — each in its own screen or window . |
| 12 | Electrolux , the world 's biggest household appliance maker , has seen its year end profits for 1991 fall , due in part to its transfer of cooker production to Spennymoor . |
| 13 | Of course the absence of any such response to these sentences in the original version might have been due in part to their location in the story . |
| 14 | The atypical but consistent finding of McKeever and his collaborators that a right field advantage can be obtained with both unilateral and bilateral stimulus presentation may be attributable in part to their use of very short exposure durations , and in part to their use of a digit as a " fixation forcer " . |
| 15 | In seeking to develop a technique that would be compatible with the findings of modern physics , she demonstrates the relevance of even the most abstract of concepts to our understanding of ourselves and our relation to others through language . |
| 16 | The child was full of gratitude to her mother for having left the peace of the house so she could come , but of course she wanted to stay among the people . |
| 17 | Thus arctic breeding grounds often appear underpopulated in relation to their carrying capacity , and there is plentiful food for all that manage to get there safely . |
| 18 | Both were supposed to supervise appointments inside their ministry to exclude anyone capable of disloyalty to their brother . |
| 19 | In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else . |
| 20 | Although the cuckoo is a bigger bird than the reed warbler or any other of its regular hosts , its eggs are unusually small in proportion to its size , with the result that there does not appear to be a great discrepancy between them . |
| 21 | Compiled by the author after many years of research , this book contains fresh data on the history of the Rolls family and explores Rolls 's interest in flying , in particular with regard to his part in the formative years of British military aviation . |
| 22 | Lewesdon climbs nearly nine hundred feet and , unlike Pilsdon Pen , which is bare and rugged , is thick with trees to its summit . |
| 23 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |
| 24 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 25 | But even so , even though she was sure Rosemary must be exaggerating , her remarks about her being too glamorous in relation to her work place nagged away at her . |