Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism . |
| 3 | But at least some of the meaning of blackbird belongs to the whole complex , and is not attributable to either black — or bird separately ; so , when black is replaced , this additional meaning is lost , along with ‘ black ’ . |
| 4 | Every child knows too , that the mass of products corresponding to the different needs require different and quantitatively determined masses of the total labour of society . |
| 5 | The fastest man received a bottle of champagne compared to the fastest woman who got a bottle of wine for her efforts . |
| 6 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 7 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 8 | This group of authorities added to the six mentioned above , equalled 14% of our sample . |
| 9 | The right use of freedom leads to the Christian discipline that we call ‘ holiness ’ . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 11 | A new technique of ‘ direct action ’ , with Bertrand Russell 's blessing though not as yet his participation , began in December 1958 , with a march through the muddy fields of Norfolk leading to the obscure American rocket base at Swaffham . |
| 12 | The statutes of self-government granted to the Basque Country and Catalonia had been rescinded during the war . |
| 13 | A common result is an upward shift of decision making to the new parent company , often located in the south-east . |
| 14 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 15 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging — which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be released . |
| 16 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging , which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be shipped . |
| 17 | In fact , there was some flexibility and the proportion of grant-in-aid of teaching costs to the Eastern District did rise a little , actually reaching 79% in 1957–58 . |
| 18 | I was fascinated by the droplets of saliva sticking to the coarse stubby brown hair surrounding his mouth , and he had to repeat his request for my shopping list . |
| 19 | Loss of opportunity to respond to the unexpected can be dealt with only by striving to eliminate it . |
| 20 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 21 | The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers . |
| 22 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 23 | His duties included the preparation of a handbook of Instructions for the use of farriers attached to the British Cavalry and to the Honourable Board of Ordnance . |
| 24 | 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services . |
| 25 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 26 | A similar chain of reasoning applies to the real-balance effect . |
| 27 | Studies on particular aspects of gastrulation or organogenesis will require their own set of parameters according to the specific system or process being studied . |
| 28 | In only one manuscript is the form of living related to the wider but familiar theological framework of the gift virtues . |
| 29 | When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques . |
| 30 | Hence , one obvious question is how does this pattern of wealth-holding relate to the overall level of investment and the rate of economic growth ? |