Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , visited Harbin , the capital of China 's Heilongjiang province , on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 for talks with his Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen [ see pp. 37373-74 for visit to Soviet Union by Li Peng in April ] . |
| 2 | As we explain further in Chapter 7 in relation to certain marketing arrangements , the careful planning and drafting of the various categories of agreement covered by block exemptions is of pivotal importance in commercial and corporate planning as a defence to those who may wish to attack commercial agreements of their competitors . |
| 3 | But they are currently going through one of the worst spells in their history and slumped to an all-time low last Sunday , losing 3–0 at home to fellow relegation strugglers Drogheda United . |
| 4 | South Africa ended 21 years of isolation from international cricket on Nov. 8 when a national team received a rapturous welcome on its arrival in India for a series of three one-day matches [ see p. 38318 for readmission to International Cricket Conference ] . |
| 5 | As was noted in chapter 4 with respect to recent work on the hau , by embodying ancestral links objects may be the basis of an individual 's present social identity such that loss of the object would itself constitute a danger to the legitimacy and viability or the personage and the group he or she leads ( Wiener 1985 ) . |
| 6 | 4.6 In relation to past loss the court will usually know all the factors relevant to the assessment of the loss . |
| 7 | British education produces a highly qualified elite , but fails 80% of its pupils , say the five academics assembled by Channel 4 in response to increasing concern about standards in education . |
| 8 | On April 9 Czechoslovakia became an observer and Poland , Hungary and Yugoslavia became full members of the Council of Europe 's Pompidou Group , set up in 1971 in response to international drug trafficking . |
| 9 | 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments . |
| 10 | The CNU was intended to serve as a transitional " mini-parliament " to govern the country until the holding of a general election on May 20 [ see p. 37191 for background to political crisis which provoked the round-table talks ] . |
| 11 | It is difficult to obtain precise figures of private sector investment in the inner cities , but there may be reasons to doubt industry 's willingness to commit billions of pounds to inner city developments . |
| 12 | Although the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Nov. 6 in response to presidential urging , other hasty actions proved mistaken . |
| 13 | Cameron , 36 , a father-of-three , of Bingham Broadway , Edinburgh , was initially accused of attempted murder , but the charge was reduced to one of assault to severe injury and to the danger of life . |
| 14 | Another pleasing choice was Alnus Cordata which is one of medium to large size and has heart-shaped leaves which always seem to be freshly polished and gleaming , accompanied from summer onwards by cone-shaped fruiting heads . |
| 15 | The spread of identification levels across three categories — ‘ high ’ , ‘ medium ’ and ‘ low ’ — is shown in Table 7.1 in relation to social class grouping . |
| 16 | As a gesture of good faith , Bush guaranteed a credit of US$1,500 million for improvements to Mexican oil installations which would be necessary to provide additional supplies of Mexican crude oil to the USA in the event of war in the Middle East . |
| 17 | The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 in response to widespread discrimination — particularly in the South — against black voters , and was expanded in 1982 to cover any election practice which resulted in a diminution of minority voting strength . |
| 18 | The package contained deep spending cuts including cuts of $1,700 million from health and welfare programmes and $1,300 million from aid to local government . |
| 19 | Emergency archaeology was born at the end of the Sixties in response to increased building . |
| 20 | At a later stage in the planning , accommodation was also provided for that part of the Computer Unit which moved in 1974 from London to temporary accommodation in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre and at King 's Buildings . |
| 21 | On the following day the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet debated the status of Crimea in the light of the Russian Supreme Soviet decision of Jan. 23 to re-examine its transfer in 1954 from Russian to Ukrainian jurisdiction [ see p. 38732 ] . |
| 22 | Editor , — Minerva 's statement that ‘ Most children with suspected acute bacterial meningitis have no contraindications to lumbar puncture , which should be done promptly before treatment is started with intravenous antibiotics , ’ may undermine the advice given by the chief medical officer in 1988 in relation to meningococcal infection . |