Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These orders relate partly to training , partly to rights of audience in different courts , and partly to matters peculiar to the internal regulation of the Inns and the dress , appearance and deportment of their members . |
| 2 | The importance of empirical material from anthropological research , and from the analyst 's research work in therapeutic encounters , is not the relatively superficial one of seeking to explain the actions of people who act in ways which appear as strange and peculiar to the ordinary members of modern Western societies . |
| 3 | Such fissures were by no means peculiar to the middle classes of the Russian Empire : analogous divisions can be found throughout Europe . |
| 4 | In this respect he was faithful to the specific teaching of the Gītā on the need for detached or selfless action , and he may well be reflecting the stress on dharma , or duty , characteristic of the Hindu tradition and which received particular emphasis in the Buddhist tradition . |
| 5 | To be faithful to the over-all impression of the celebratory poems we ought to note that the effect is often the reverse of abnegation . |
| 6 | Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author . |
| 7 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 8 | Instead of developing four-legged galloping to the high pitch of perfection that horses ( and presumably litopterns ) did , kangaroos have perfected a different gait : two-legged hopping with a large balancing tail . |
| 9 | In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ . |
| 10 | PHOTOGRAPHY NOW represents artists who function as artists , indeed , but also as cultural critics responsive to the new circumstances of the visual arts . |
| 11 | By lobbying local health officials and encouraging private institutions to reduce costs for patients with limited capacity to pay , CBHPs not only help people have access to the care they need but also make health professionals more aware of and responsive to the real needs of the poor . |
| 12 | It must , of course , be responsive to the strategic imperatives of both purchasers and central government , and this is reflected in the annual business plan submitted to purchasers for approval and funding . |
| 13 | Polar and grizzly bears are highly responsive to the vaginal scents of menstruating women , and they may even be a factor in bear attacks . |
| 14 | Her body shaking in his arms , her soft mouth totally responsive to the hot possession of his , she tried to fight the knowledge aside . |
| 15 | ‘ Moreover , the amount of the shift ’ , they conclude , ‘ appears to have been fairly responsive to the different phases of regional policy . ’ |
| 16 | Secondly , applications had to be made direct to the appropriate Secretary of State who , if not available , had to sign at the earliest possible opportunity ( though they could be issued initially by a civil servant ) . |
| 17 | Turkey is proposing the construction of a pipeline across its territory to carry Azeri oil direct to the Mediterranean port of Yumurtalik . |
| 18 | These departments will needless to say be answerable direct to the main body of partners but , for administrative convenience an additional tier will usually be introduced in the form of a managing partner or a partners ' management committee as a more efficient method of control and a useful filter to ensure that the partners as a whole are spared the necessity of dealing with anything other than matters of real importance . |
| 19 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 20 | She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills , had seven or eight husbands ( depending on which reference book you read ) , and was not averse to the odd bout of fisticuffs when she got off her head . |
| 21 | Even the godly were not averse to the outward display of a funeral monument , as the tomb at St Bartholomew 's , London , of Sir Walter Mildmay who endowed Emmanuel College , Cambridge , for the education of godly preachers well illustrates . |
| 22 | Between 1824 and 1830 , the Nez Perce switched their allegiance from the British to the growing bands of free-spirited American mountain men , who traded generously and treated the Indians as equals . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's your cheapest Scotch ? ’ inquires the next customer , oblivious to the new range of malt whiskies sitting in the window . |
| 24 | Claire Hunt , for instance , noted in 1988 of North Western brewers Robinsons that they ‘ appear on the whole to be fairly oblivious to the individual merits of their historic pubs . ’ |
| 25 | Once outside , she stood uncertainly for a moment , oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by . |
| 26 | The casual labour problem was too sizeable to be solved by these means and it was unsuited to the temporary needs of unemployed skilled men . |
| 27 | The current local government system is highly centralised and unsuited to the wider distribution of power featured in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 28 | If the cavalry were still , in every sense , the army 's natural leaders , the victories of the Flemish burgher forces and militia over French knights at Courtrai in July 1302 , and that of the mountaineers of Schwyz and Uri over the formidable feudal array of knights and footmen belonging to Leopold of Austria at Morgarten in November 1315 had shown what could be done in conditions and terrain unsuited to the effective use of cavalry . |
| 29 | The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine . |
| 30 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |