Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in effect led to a situation where the commercial energy input became about equal to the equivalent energy output of edible grains . |
| 2 | Stedman Jones ' ( 1982 ) re-examination of chartism , for example , argues that its political form can not be understood as a simplistic response to the putative material experience of a class , nor can its political language be seen as an expression of that experience . |
| 3 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 4 | The criteria are , of course , different according to the varied subject matter of the examination . |
| 5 | In it alone , from the Reformation Parliament of 1529 to the European Communities Act of 1972 , the prescriptive and therefore undefined and unlimited authority of the monarch has been exercised through an equally unique representative institution . |
| 6 | Government sources claimed that the SNP had broken the deal by not voting with Conservative MPs on Wednesday and implied that Mr Lang might reconsider his position on appointments to the European Community committee of the regions . |
| 7 | Then it was in ‘ B&D blue ’ , and now the only visual change is a switch to the black plastic body of more recent models . |
| 8 | However , he does not as Tarrow seems to argue , ignore class contradictions within the territorially based proletarian community ; in fact he pays particular attention to the complex class structure of the depressed areas , identifying as crucial within them the role of the rural intelligentsia , the commercial intermediaries and the local clergy . |
| 9 | At the junction Ashley went right , making for the square which , with its bars and cafés and entrance on to the golden sand arc of a beach , formed the focus of the small community . |
| 10 | In its early days in Berners Street the Institute was not recognized by Industry and Commerce , as Sir Kenneth Cork recalled in his Foreword to the Golden Jubilee issue of the Journal of the Institute of Credit Management ( which it had become in 1989 ) , of which he was President . |
| 11 | Pension contributions attract no tax and can be made up to 30 per cent of earnings at the age of 55 and 40 per cent over the age of 60 for personal pensions , subject to the current earnings cap of £75,000 . |
| 12 | However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable . |
| 13 | The WT oligonucleotide corresponding to a PPT element located at -761 to -741 relative to the major start site of transcription ( 7 ) with homology to a previously proposed Na Channel element was used in gel retardation analysis . |
| 14 | According to the International Herald Tribune of June 11 the tribal separatist movement there had killed an estimated 2,000 people since 1975 . |
| 15 | According to the International Herald Tribune of Aug. 27 Iran had expressed its willingness to host a conference of leaders from the Soviet Moslem republics to forge a " common stance " against Soviet authority . |
| 16 | It would be possible instead to preserve the relationship between the financial institutions and the personal sector savers but to alter substantially the deployment of funds by obliging the institutions to contribute to a national investment bank , giving them in return bonds with a rate of return linked to the real growth rate of the economy . |
| 17 | The extraordinary 19 per cent rise in real consumers ' spending between 1985 and 1988 was mainly due to the real wage rise of 14.1 per cent . |
| 18 | Cream 's ‘ fraternal individualism ’ , for instance , is easily metamorphosed into ‘ elitist exhibitionism ’ ( musically , this is the development from Cream to what has often been described as the ‘ empty virtuosity ’ of many later ‘ guitar heroes ’ ) ; similarly , the ‘ thinking ’ of unpredictable extended forms , given the predictable lulling rhythms and bland timbres of Mike Oldfield , is turned into LP-length ‘ easy listening ’ ; the ‘ psychedelic sound ’ becomes exactly that : a fetishized label , isolated from the radical harmonic/rhythmic context it has in ‘ Strawberry Fields ’ , and pinned on to simple Top Ten dance tunes , as a tribute to the middle class ideology of riskless hedonism . |
| 19 | Now I 'd like to emphasize this as because within York area it saw a difference between the census counts to the actual base population of a growth of five point seven two percent . |
| 20 | It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so . |
| 21 | The first is that sometimes the rules do not relate to the actual language use of native speakers . |
| 22 | The magnitude of this decrease is a measure of the strength of the molecular dipole involved in the relaxation , where ε o is the static dielectric constant related to the actual dipole moment of the polymer and ε∞ is the dielectric constant measured at high frequencies . |
| 23 | Now , back to the actual contents list of your mind ( imagined , assumed , or however else established ) when you use the term ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 24 | Thus when Clarkson spoke movingly to the gathered World Convention of 1840 he was intended to symbolise continuity and provide in what he stood for a unifying focus . |
| 25 | According to the government-controlled Press Trust of India ( PTI ) , Russia and Ukraine had also agreed to maintain the delivery of military spare parts to India . |
| 26 | From the first cravenly petit-bourgeois Embassy all those years ago , to the predictable monogrammed-slippers appeal of Balkan Sobranie , via the posturings of menthol and the hideous austerity of low-tar , through the Rive Gauche authenticity of fat-thumbed hand-rolling ( with or without aromatic additions ) and its brusque mechanical equivalent ( those Stakhanovite mangles , that floppy deck-chair of rubber I could never quite subdue ) , all leading to the current confident plateau , the équilibré intake of Gauloise and Winston , alloyed occasionally by the fierce kick-start of a little Swedish number named after hoi polloi 's Alsatian , Prince . |
| 27 | It should only aim to record that which is necessary for accurate reporting of a pupil 's progress according to the agreed reporting format of the school as a whole . |
| 28 | The most usual way of predicting future service needs is by the forward projection of current prevalence data to the predicted age structure of the population in the future . |
| 29 | Sometimes Christians have tried to build the new Jerusalem on earth , and church history is littered with the debris of broken dreams , from the wreckage of Byzantium to the forgotten Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 30 | A vernacular sign heralds one 's arrival at ‘ Top oth town ’ in Heptonstall , where ‘ Weavers Square ’ stands as witness to the age-old cottage preoccupation of the villagers with hand-loom weaving . |