Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 2 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 3 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 4 | The 69 amino acids POU-specific domain ( POU S ) is located at positions 454 to 522 in the derived protein sequence and is separated from the 60 amino acids POU homeo domain ( POU HD ) ( positions 542 to 600 , defined according to Laughton ( 22 ) ) by a 20 amino acids linker sequence . |
| 5 | 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end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling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 . |
| 6 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 7 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 8 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 9 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 10 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 11 | Davies still looks to Labour as the likeliest carrier for such ideas . |
| 12 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 13 | The move is spearheaded by former MP Tony Favell , who lost his seat to Labour in the General Election . |
| 14 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 15 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 16 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was a drop of about six feet to the top of the window beneath , and an equal drop to that on the first floor . |
| 19 | The front engine will drive a folding propeller similar to that on the German Stemme S10 powered sailplane ( Pilot , August 1991 ) , while the rear one will drive a constant-speed Hartzell propeller . |
| 20 | The affinities of L703766 for all mutants were very similar to that for the wild-type receptor ( Table 2 ) . |
| 21 | Requires a similar planting medium to that for the preceding Acorus species . |
| 22 | Further , the evidence for the late Merovingian period is not comparable to that for the sixth century . |
| 23 | If a functional group on CP 96345 interacts with His197 , removing that functional group should result in a dissociation constant for the H197A mutant equal to that for the wild type because the His197 specific interaction is no longer present . |
| 24 | The median survival of 7.5 months ( range 2–13 ) for patients with cytomegalovirus and AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis is identical to that for the whole AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis group . |
| 25 | Er I simply draw the attention of the panel to that to the obvious conflict between those two er conclusions . |
| 26 | This domain of Vmw175 has been expressed as a stable , functionally separable domain in bacteria ( 25,21 ) , exists as a dimer in solution ( 21 ) and binds DNA with a specificity similar to that of the intact protein ( 25,21 ) . |
| 27 | The DNA binding domain of the homologous protein of HSV-1 , Vmw175 , has been expressed in isolation and found to have a similar binding specificity to that of the intact protein ( 21,25,31 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The construction is similar to that of the insulating wall : new ceiling joists are fixed across the room , supported by either hanging brackets or wall battens . |
| 30 | The time of year was chosen to be as close as possible to that of the 1979 census to ensure that seasonal mortality effects would not confound results . |