Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 3 | These phrases are often embellished in the text with modifiers and slight variations ( often , usually , also , mainly ) which give some extra information to readers of the dictionary . |
| 4 | Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 . |
| 5 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |
| 6 | Tamm attributes his decision to embark on this long-term programme to stimulus from Romell , a distinguished Swedish ecologist and soil scientist . |
| 7 | This distorted access to resources in youth and middle age — institutionalised in segregative and discriminatory employment and other social policies as well as in the domestic division of labour — is reflected , in due course , in the relative disadvantage of women in old age . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They may well have certain cerebral pre-adaptations that subtended vocalised speech linked with gesture , which responded in some ancestral line to pressures of selection for an ever more complex code of communication . |
| 10 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
| 11 | Even highly conservative scientists became concerned that some large-scale change to ecosystems in industrialised countries seemed to be under way . |
| 12 | I thought of making some smart remark to Jamie about stunting his growth , but all lines to and from my brain seemed to be jammed with urgent messages coming from my guts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have to risk that chat and that jockeying for such possible coming to terms with things . |
| 15 | Gooch had much short stuff to content with . |
| 16 | Do you remember the time she reduced that poor student to tears in the staffroom ? ’ |
| 17 | That committee by a majority of three to two decided to ask the court to require the health authority to continue to provide all available treatment to J. including ‘ intensive resuscitation . ’ |
| 18 | He was the author of the 1985 Pressler Amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act , under which the US suspended all military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 [ see pp. 37764 ] . |
| 19 | Western aid donors meeting in Paris under World Bank auspices on May 12-14 decided to suspend all non-humanitarian aid to Malawi for 1992-93 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the issues of location and control of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , Yeltsin said that all tactical nuclear weapons would have been moved from other republics of the former Soviet Union to Russia by July 1 , although moving long-range strategic weapons was more complex . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 24 | It also seeks to identify the impacts that any extensive move to pluriactivity in farming families would have on regional economics . |
| 25 | Edward 's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And what it suggests is that structures of desire , emotion and fantasy have deep roots of some sort in the self which are not necessarily amenable in any simple way to processes of conscious rational argument . |
| 28 | Reference is made to Circular 14/85 — paragraphs 3.4 and 3.5 It is submitted that the appeal proposal would not cause any demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance , therefore the general presumption in favour of development should prevail in this instance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I do n't think the internal wranglings erm of , of members of the County Council are actually of any great interest to members of the public . |