Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 2 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 3 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 4 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 5 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |
| 6 | With the exception of a few journalists perhaps over-committed to the official Anglo-American view after following it so assiduously for three years , the press , too , was mostly unenthusiastic . |
| 7 | In a result reflecting both the republic 's ethnic diversity and a resounding rejection of the ruling Bosnia-Hercegovina League of Communists , the vast majority of seats went to the three main nationalist parties separately appealing to the Moslem , Serb and Croat populations . |
| 8 | His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house . |
| 9 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 10 | This tendency is itself in need of sociological analysis , since it is in some respects clearly related to the social character of certain modem institutions , most obviously in advertising and market research but also in audience research and in political opinion polling . |
| 11 | The house has two good sized reception rooms on the ground floor with a kitchen extension just behind the first floor we have the bathroom , the rear elevation and two bedrooms also access to the third bedroom which has been converted from the attic . |
| 12 | Forty or fifty years ago , Irish traders also came to the fair bringing crates of geese and pullets , and the locals would buy a goose from them to fatten up for Christmas . |
| 13 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 14 | Few Marxists now hold to the traditional claim that the state is nothing but the executive committee of the bourgeoisie . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , sons of the clergy often go to the bad , and daughters too . |
| 16 | Worries now shifted to the higher prices and to what became known as the ‘ recycling problem ’ . |
| 17 | Political considerations simultaneously led to the Soviet decision to abandon its rights , derived from the Yalta Agreements and specified in the Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship of August 1945 , to exclusive use of the naval base in Port Arthur and shared use of the port of Dairen in the Chinese People 's Republic . |
| 18 | ‘ We are , ’ he said , ‘ about to introduce a scheme to replace the much discredited ‘ trikes ’ , ’ by which he meant the three-wheeled conveyances then issued to the disabled . |
| 19 | Apart from the domestic consequences , the Bundesbank is of course also fully aware of the pressure from its European partners to reduce its interest rates and allow currencies closely linked to the German mark to relax monetary policy and stimulate growth . |
| 20 | Candidates either wrote to the Colonial Office or to an influential relative , or , not infrequently , walked in off the street . |
| 21 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 22 | Although , childbearing patterns thus belong to the behavioural sphere , their effect on the viability of offspring manifests itself through biological and physiological factors . |
| 23 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 24 | The dispersal of people to increasingly distant suburbs and the growing concentrations of service industries in city centres were bound to lead to a re-invasion by young professionals and executives of inner areas long abandoned to the working class … |
| 25 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 26 | For the sake of standardization the London Companies always worked to the lowest common denominator ! ) |
| 27 | On the left is a mole carcase turned inside out with many of the bones still attached to the inverted skin ; in the middle , partial remains of mole ( top left ) and vole ( bottom left ) treated in the same way , and bird remains to the right ; and on the right two kestrel pellets . |
| 28 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |
| 29 | For the years 1984–6 , the statistical authorities have published ( Indeks , 1987 , nos. 3 and 9 ) the values of exports and imports both according to the traditional method and in terms of current dinars , i.e. at the rates of exchange ruling at the time of the export or import of the goods . |
| 30 | Similar uncertainties also apply to the actual health effects per man-rem . |