Example sentences of "to [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 2 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 3 | The Disabled Persons Registration Act 1944 provides that a disabled person can not be dismissed ( unless there is ‘ reasonable cause ’ for so doing ) if that would reduce the number of disabled workers in the business to below the fixed quota of 3 per cent . |
| 4 | However , these are limited in number and apply to only a small proportion of all Forestry Commission lands ( Hall 1974 ) . |
| 5 | Due to pressure on places the Faculties of Arts , Law , Medicine and Social Sciences are able to offer deferred entry to only a small proportion of applicants . |
| 6 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 7 | While arbitrage is open to any investor , these two alternatives strategies , which will now be explained , are open to only a limited number of investors . |
| 8 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 9 | It was easy to save on coral sand because without undergravel filtration , it is better to stick to only a light dusting of sand on the tank floor . |
| 10 | Because of their beauty such villages are also more subject to draconian planning policies which may prevent any new development at all or restrict it to only the limited in-filling of low-density private housing . |
| 11 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 12 | We denote all the terms in the square bracket as A s , which are the same for every unit cell , and sum all the scattered waves illuminated by the incident plane wave within the probe coherence area , containing N 2 unit cells , to give The first two summations are the structure factor , which amount to constant coefficients in the LEED I-V spectra , leading to Thus the main effect of long-range order , as distinct from short-range order , is to produce intensity at Bragg beam positions ; it does not influence the I-V dependence at a given Bragg beam position . |
| 13 | Such right-context effects ( Thompson 84 ) are not limited to just the initial portion of the utterance . |
| 14 | Whatever their ultimate truth or falsity , beliefs and ideologies could thus be subjected to exactly the same kind of functional analysis as other social phenomena . |
| 15 | The Bill could lead to exactly the same kind of problem . |
| 16 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 17 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 18 | And these visits managed to reduce her to exactly the same stage of trembling , silent , frustrated anxiety that she had endured throughout her childhood ; she felt , each time , that she had gone back , right back to the start , and that every step forward must be painfully retraced . |
| 19 | Our third report outlined a number of schemes and initiatives which were intended to further the general aim of closer links with parents and the community : the appointment of a team of home-school liaison assistants ( later redesignated home-school liaison officers ) ; the Portage scheme , described in more detail below ; in-service support courses ; and a wide range of everyday practice , including a great diversity of activities ( forty-seven in all ) which are listed in Table 5.1 . |
| 20 | In the end it is left to Dickson McCunn to further the romantic element of the book when he impersonates the chosen royal candidate , the elderly and ailing Archduke Hadrian . |
| 21 | Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business . |
| 22 | She knelt there , her head lowered , trying to still the sudden tremor of her hands , the violent beating of her heart , but the sight of his booted feet beneath the table held her eyes . |
| 23 | I have known rocks become oblivious to both the old type of scarecrow and its modern equivalent , the automatic banger . |
| 24 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 25 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 26 | Dickens does this by his attention to even the smallest detail of the characters ' appearance , which includes their faces , clothes and especially any odd phrases or physical blemishes they have as in the case of Pumblechook and his , ‘ I have brought you , Mum , ’ and in Melly 's and Herbert 's cases , that of her strong wrists and his pale young complexion . |
| 27 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 28 | The sense of excitement that Ruth would have had might have changed a wee bit to almost a little bit of fear . |
| 29 | Leith railed ceaselessly against her ‘ fiancé ’ to almost the very end of the meal . |
| 30 | Alan 's vitamin C level fell rather dramatically , from the top end to almost the bottom end of the normal range by the end of the six week experimental diet . |