Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 2 | It is evident from the results shown in lanes 1–3 in Fig. 4B that pou[c] binds with high affinity to the HSV ICP4 TAATGARAT and the Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs whereas binding to the canonical octamer sequence ( Ad4 ) was barely detectable even after overexposure of the GMSA signals . |
| 3 | Quigley ( 1979 ) adds to this a tendency to interpret noun phrases as connecting to the nearest verb phrase , producing misinterpretation and limiting the range of written sentences . |
| 4 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 5 | The video is already a record breaker in that it was produced in only three weeks as opposed to the normal six to eight weeks . |
| 6 | There is a need for receptiveness to new ideas as opposed to the instantaneous rejection which is our normal British heritage . |
| 7 | Within the present context , one way of taking account of this ‘ intertemporal ’ dimension to supply is to model suppliers as responding to the local price relative to their expectation of next period 's average price . |
| 8 | If this tendency to ratiocinate in central isolation was already rife by 1917 in the microcosmic situation of the Belorussians , how much greater were the potential dangers for the future of the Bolsheviks ' wider theories as applied to the all-Russian macrocosm . |
| 9 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 10 | In The Use of Poetry we see how by a reworking of his earlier , anthropologically inspired stress on poets as connected to the primitive man , Eliot adapted nineteenth-century views of the poet 's task and brought them into his own later poetry . |
| 11 | That support was based on the false assumption that it covered the rise in real poll tax levels as opposed to the notional , national averages . |
| 12 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 13 | It is possible to fit the dual circuit systems as used on later vehicles if you use the brake pipes as fitted to the later models to get the circuitry correct . |
| 14 | The visits to the colleges provided a much wider perspective on the provision of accounting courses as opposed to the narrow single college viewpoint . |
| 15 | Relevant previous experience , together with the principle of local interpretation , will impel hearers / readers to try to interpret sequential utterances as relating to the same topic . |
| 16 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 17 | The illustration shows all the main ones as related to the human figure : Extreme Long Shot ( ELS ) , Long Shot , LS ) , Medium Long Shot ( MLS ) , Medium Shot , MS ) , Medium Close-up ( MCU ) , Closeup ( CU ) , and Big Close-up ( BCU ) . |
| 18 | We used the Hungarian congenital abnormality register and other collected data to estimate the proportion of congenital abnormalities that are , or can be , prevented by all these approaches when used to the best level of practice currently found in Hungary . |
| 19 | At the same time , he envisaged these innate and largely egoistic tendencies as threatening to the social order . |
| 20 | To develop them in a form that meets people 's real wishes as opposed to the cheapest option or the easiest available option . |
| 21 | A further vicious twist in this kind of representation , again remarked by Richard Plant in The Pink Triangle , concerns the way that in the Nazi concentration camps homosexual inmates were held responsible by non-homosexual inmates for crimes committed by homosexual guards : ‘ homosexual guards , however hostile , were seen by non-gay prisoners as belonging to the homosexual underclass . |
| 22 | The information from the Department of the Environment 's nineteen eight nine based household projections , suggests that in fact there is a slightly larger number possibly erm in in in the round and that is five thousand dwellings as opposed to the three thousand one hundred and seventy we 're seeking to include . |