Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
| 2 | Since 1988 the register of title has been open to inspection by the general public . |
| 3 | The papers of the Lord Chancellor 's Department which are open to inspection in the Public Record Office are therefore a valuable but under-used source of information for the study of recent political and social history , public administration and law . |
| 4 | This is due in part to splits within the alternative movement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All too frequently Nizan 's highly publicised resignation from the PCF in September 1939 is interpreted by contemporary liberal critics imbued with a visceral hostility to communism as the visible sign that his allegiance to the party was flawed from the beginning . |
| 7 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |
| 8 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 9 | This increase underlines my commitment to improvements across the whole range of law and order programmes , consistent with the undertakings outlined in the recently published ’ Justice Charter for Scotland ’ . |
| 10 | Excess of oligonucleotide 1 led to recircularization of the original vector whereas insufficient quantities resulted in incomplete digestion . |
| 11 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 12 | Turnover increased from £81.6m to £106.1m in the same period . |
| 13 | BRITAIN has launched a significant lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill , including letters to Congressmen from the British ambassador , Sir Antony Acland , in an effort to prevent delays in the US Trident D-5 nuclear missile programme . |
| 14 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 15 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 16 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 17 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 18 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 19 | Young men and women with honours degrees or postgraduate degrees can be appointed as ‘ legal trainees ’ and be articled to solicitors in the Legal Service , normally after obtaining exemption from passing or obtaining exemption from the C.P.E. An appointment as Legal Assistant follows admission as a solicitor . |
| 20 | The most obvious test of television 's ability to set the public agenda was provided by its massive shift of emphasis on to defence in the third week of the campaign . |
| 21 | This terrain of rocky canyons and dusty valleys is well suited to defence against the Ethiopian army in a war of independence that has lasted 25 years . |
| 22 | ‘ In order to change and adapt to shifts in the Italian business and political scene , a radical rethink of what the AIE has stood for until now is going to be necessary , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The two main threats to Sunderland in the first half came from Brooks and Coleman . |
| 24 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 25 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 26 | The elements of language are relatively arbitrary in regard to their referents in the real world , whereas images signify through their ‘ iconicity ’ , through their resemblance to referents in the real world ( Eco 1976 , pp. 191ff ) . |
| 27 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 28 | With 125 people on board — students , teachers , education officials — the vessel left Norway for Aberdeen and called at Lerwick before returning to Bergen during the ten-day itinerary . |
| 29 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 30 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |