Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By such financial means ‘ the state attempts to modulate private business 's cash flow and barter this for conformity to public policy ’ . |
| 2 | Sir Ian painstakingly worked over the evidence for this from decade to weary decade — and drew a blank . |
| 3 | It is especially important to remember this in relation to international law , which is based on what states have formally agreed to , or accepted as binding practice . |
| 4 | One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing . |
| 5 | There must , however , be some doubt about this in relation to supplementary benefit since two-thirds of those in receipt of this benefit are retirement pensioners . |
| 6 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 7 | The relationship is rather like that of pornography to sexual aggression , cathartic or stimulant according to one 's prejudices . |
| 8 | The accountability of directors to shareholders is very different from that of partners to each other . |
| 9 | A basic motivation for recent reforms to create trust hospitals and an ‘ internal market ’ within the NHS and to allow schools to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control is also , to use a neutral phrase , to change traditional patterns of public accountability by shifting the emphasis from accountability to political bodies such as Parliament to financial accountability to auditing bodies . |
| 10 | A technique designed to encompass factors , such as aversion to low probability accidents and socio–political aspects , which are difficult to quantify in monetary terms . |
| 11 | The earlier decomposition could reveal activities within the procedure that are amenable to monitoring ( such as adherence to bin-card re-ordering procedures ) , which could obviously have an effect on the success of the procedure as a whole . |
| 12 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 13 | Thank you erm well that was a very interesting introduction usual political statements there are many of interest to this County Council and its services , erm their worth repeating as part of the time just to add to the with the labour party er for us prices . |
| 14 | There is little in print to this day , however , that discusses desirable approaches to the young library user — and the troublesome young library user . |
| 15 | And looking at that in relation to cultural policy . |
| 16 | Social selection results from ( a ) effects of competition between the subject and others of either sex with respect to commodities essential to survival in the situation that will allow attempt at reproduction , ( b ) competition for access to preferred members of the opposite sex for mating and ( c ) effects of competition between subjects for access to commodities in the environment essential for rearing of their young or those of relatives to reproductive age . |
| 17 | Bigger and better equipped practices and those with a diabetic miniclinic had patients with significantly better glycaemic control , as did those with access to dietetic advice . |
| 18 | With continued social unrest in Britain through the eighties and into the early nineties , it is clear that social protest , particularly with regard to the attitudes and responses of those in authority to collective violence , is back on the political agenda . |
| 19 | The thesis comes into its own with respect to industrial policy where significant discontinuities in policy can be attributed to the government changing hands . |
| 20 | Another study of employers ' use of temporary workers using US survey data ( Magnum/Mayall/Nelson , 1985 ) obtained results very similar to our own with respect to fixed-term contract workers . |