Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 2 | What seems to have been forgotten is the role played by my relation , Meg Meade-Fetherstonhaugh in bringing this Sleeping Beauty to life for our generation to enjoy until its tragic destruction . |
| 3 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 4 | Cooks Ferry and Stonebridge for a few small fish to bloodworm through the ice . |
| 5 | Tamm attributes his decision to embark on this long-term programme to stimulus from Romell , a distinguished Swedish ecologist and soil scientist . |
| 6 | You probably have a good idea of the atmosphere you want to create in your kitchen , and you will find some simplified pointers to style on the following pages . |
| 7 | One could hypothesise that there is some phonological clue to ethnicity in this speaker 's speech which is apparent to members of the black community but not to others . |
| 8 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
| 9 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 10 | Despite this last reference to excess of jurisdiction , it seems that Lord Denning M.R. is anxious to prevent every point of construction in the statute from becoming jurisdictional . |
| 11 | 9.8 Perpetuity period The perpetuity period applicable to this Lease shall be [ 80 ] years from the commencement of the Contractual Term and whenever in this Lease either party is granted a future interest in property there shall be deemed to be included in respect of every such grant a provision requiring that future interest to vest within the stated period and for it to be void for remoteness if it shall not have so vested Despite the importance of the rule against perpetuities , it is surprising that most leases granted today make no mention of it . |
| 12 | Gooch had much short stuff to content with . |
| 13 | But there is no need to revert to these basic objections to functionalism in order to deal with the specific question of the functions of crime . |
| 14 | The implications of these general approaches to ontogenesis for the nature of the artefact become clearer when they are directed at a specific problem , the nature of play . |
| 15 | There is some common ground between these two approaches to selection of materials for Science teaching , but they do result in radically different programmes : the content based approach is much easier to understand and interpret by the average teacher whereas the process-based approach often strikes much deeper towards the prior aim of making learners think more scientifically in a world where this process is increasingly necessary for survival . |
| 16 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 17 | This is negotiated on an individual basis , but Mike Lester has been trying to relate all new contracts to turnover between a range of £5,250 ( turnover £80,000 ) to £7,500 ( turnover £200,000 plus ) . |
| 18 | Several more specific approaches to reduction of platelet aggregation are currently being explored — eg , thromboxane synthase inhibitors , antagonists of serotonin and endoperoxide receptors , monoclonal antibodies against the platelet GPIIb/IIIa receptor , arginine-glycine-aspartic acid ( RGD ) -containing peptides derived from viper venoms , and small synthetic RGD-containing peptides . |
| 19 | He comes from the DSS where he was formulating policy on pensions and was a former private secretary to Minister for Disabled People , Nicholas Scott . |
| 20 | We do well to remember that societal opposition to cruelty to animals , especially opposition that has the force of law , is a comparatively recent development . |
| 21 | It also seeks to identify the impacts that any extensive move to pluriactivity in farming families would have on regional economics . |
| 22 | Dr Kennedy has sent a letter to Mrs Falconer saying that he does not see what benefit can arise from any further extension to consideration of the matter . ’ |
| 23 | It is in such mediating contexts , rather than in any direct tie to capital through laissez faire , that the social history of Darwin 's science should be sought . |
| 24 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 25 | In a speech in Seoul on 27 April Rhee cleverly sought to reconcile his own vigorous hostility to communism with the American approach to world problems . |
| 26 | A century or two ago , though , who could have imagined any practical benefit to mankind from such erudite and scholarly historical research as studies of the exact path of an eclipse , or painstaking measurements of the angular diameter of the Sun ? |
| 27 | As noted above , regulatory barriers do not constrain new entry to the market , and rapid entry suggests that any other constraints to establishment in the market are weak . |