Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 2 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 3 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 4 | By drawing General Managers ' attention to the British Gas environment publications ; ensuring they have an adequate supply along with display holders [ similar to that outside the Public relations office ] and letting them know how and from whom to obtain additional information . |
| 5 | ‘ Nevertheless , the atmosphere today compared to that of a few weeks ago is more conducive to a satisfactory settlement , ’ concluded Donald . |
| 6 | He used the columns of the Irish Times to inform Roman catholic consciences of permitted interpretations of state divorce on the grounds of religious liberty , interpretations which were diametrically opposed to that of the Irish bishops . |
| 7 | The sensitivity of a fourth serological test , Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG , is identical to that of the standard tests but its specificity is significantly lower . |
| 8 | Interestingly , the distribution of variants in Lurgan is more similar to that of the inner-city areas than that of the outer areas ( a pattern that applies also to other vowel and consonant variables ) . |
| 9 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 10 | The assumption was that the creation of larger authorities ( with larger budgets ) would attract less parochial ( more managerial ) councillors and also make it possible to attract a different sort of officer , less tied to the narrowness of existing departmental boundaries with a management style closer to that of the major corporations in the private sector . |
| 11 | The overall result for the three community studies is almost identical to that of the included studies ( odds ratio 0.74 ; 0.64 to 0.86 ) but showed significant heterogeneity ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 12 | If its cost effectiveness was equal to that of the average police authority , it would be able to recruit up to full establishment . |
| 13 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 14 | As Mukařovský wrote ( Garvin 1964 : 22 ) : The task of the structuralist analyst is therefore to identify deviations from existing linguistic and literary practice ( ‘ norms ’ ) occurring at one level of the text ( say its syntax ) , and then relate the structure of this level to that of the other levels ( rhythm , syllable-structure , aspects of subject matter , etc. ) , in order to define the structure of the text as a whole . |
| 15 | The distribution of team diagnoses after assessment was similar to that of the new referrals as a whole ( table I ) . |
| 16 | The homeworkers ' expectations that they would receive work regularly , and their effective inability to refuse consignments of work , meant that their situation was similar to that of the regular casuals in the " O'Kelly case " . |
| 17 | Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug . |
| 18 | The North American stamp is upon it all , giving the line a flavour completely different to that of the Chilean systems … |
| 19 | The central importance of the developmental role undertaken since 1988 by the Department of EPD was recognised by it being formally constituted this year as a division of the University , with a status equivalent to that of the four Schools . |
| 20 | They thus protect the ants against nest pathogens in a way similar to that of the fungistatic resins collected by bees for their nests . |
| 21 | He comes to a similar conclusion to that of the classical theorists of the nineteenth century : face-to-face contacts are many and multifarious , but they are again secondary , fractionalised and based on only a very partial knowledge of a particular individual . |
| 22 | Scottish local government was reformed by an Act in 1973 on a pattern not dissimilar to that of the English shires . |
| 23 | With the exception of Mona Lisa , it examines in depth only recently cleaned paintings , analysing changes in colour thinking from fifteenth to sixteenth century , from the Cennini system to that of the post-Leonardo artists . |
| 24 | Van Dijk 's studies of discourse of the Dutch white working-class show a similar pattern to that of the American studies of ‘ modern racism ’ , in that racist sentiments are simultaneously expressed and denied ( for example , van Dijk , 1983 , 1984 , 1985a ) . |
| 25 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 26 | Here the myth of the founding text is most clearly articulated to that of the founding fathers , whose word lays down the laws of a history in which women and children do not count . |
| 27 | This could only mean that , in time , India would attain a status equal to that of the white dominions . |
| 28 | In each case , the level of expression of all three or four proteins were equivalent to that of the original isolates ( data not shown ) . |
| 29 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 30 | This , I felt , was long overdue — there had been a tendency to regard their activity as secondary to that of the operational investigators while their technical contribution was in fact of the highest importance . |