Example sentences of "the [noun sg] to [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
| 2 | The reduced number of banks participating in venture capital financing has meant a dramatic reduction in the availability of debt , and gearing levels demanded by the banks who do participate have fallen sharply from 7:1 or 8:1 at the height of the boom to 1:1 or less . |
| 3 | This type occurs where the accused represents the truth to another but afterwards the facts change and the accused does not inform the victim that the facts have changed . |
| 4 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 5 | PORTSMOUTH striker Guy Whittingham took his tally for the season to 27 and then said : ‘ I do n't know why bigger clubs have not come in for me . ’ |
| 6 | It is suggested , therefore , that the three mosaics with concentric , circular borders associated with a regular grid are also reflections of the trend to centralised and more fluid representation It is especially in such " fluid and curving design , often accompanied by accomplished figural work , that the third facet is conspicuous . |
| 7 | Using a disk cache lessens the requirement for buffers , and so you can safely reduce the number to 10 or less , or sometimes even do away with them altogether . |
| 8 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople . |
| 9 | Everywhere Japanese military control used the exigencies of war to subject the populace to harsh and often brutal treatment in what was clearly Japanese domination rather than Asian cooperation . |
| 10 | This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ . |