Example sentences of "the [det] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In one of the few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on governments to " promote appropriate demographic policies " .
2 The few contemporary references to Traherne which survive all speak highly both of his learning and of his character .
3 Second , the many judicial references to costs ‘ properly incurred ’ make it clear that the court will examine the costs , charges and expenses sought to be added to the security and disallow those that it considers have not been ‘ properly incurred . ’
4 He has also worked with Sir Alan Walters , the former financial adviser to Mrs Margaret Thatcher .
5 On the issues of location and control of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , Yeltsin said that all tactical nuclear weapons would have been moved from other republics of the former Soviet Union to Russia by July 1 , although moving long-range strategic weapons was more complex .
6 Susie Kinley : the former international returns to Portadown after missing most of last season
7 Kennedy encouraged the Shah to undertake reforms and was pleased when the Shah appointed Ali Amini , the former Iranian ambassador to Washington , prime minister of Iran .
8 On April 17 the former Italian ambassador to Somalia Mario De Sica denied rumours that Italy was supporting groups loyal to Siyad Barre .
9 She helped to raise funds to build and equip a hospital , opposed plans to turn Ethiopia into a de facto British protectorate , agitated against the idea of returning the former Italian colonies to Italy , and supported the idea of the unity of Eritrea with Ethiopia .
10 The former American ambassador to Yugoslavia , Warren Zimmerman , confirmed the US had made its position clear to Serbia over broadening the war from Bosnia .
11 The new subsidiary , GPTelecom , is headed by Rupert Soames , son of the former British Ambassador to France and EC vice-president .
12 It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned .
13 Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago .
14 France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them .
15 Similar experiments with factory farmed chickens and ducks reveal the same swift reversion to nature .
16 and a he had the same unyielding attitude to life that Germans would have and a very bad temper .
17 There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were erm wanting to disrupt the teaching of their erm of their teachers , and really problems were reduced to individuals in teach class , one or two pupils , which erm did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups had done previously .
18 There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously .
19 But it remains true that this culminating defence , conservative and apologetic as it is , still partakes of the same fundamental challenge to gender division as the other defences .
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