Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 2 | For example , although Text Processing 5 is named as the module which forms part of the SVQ in Business Administration ( Secretarial ) at Level II , in the case of trainees without previous experience , the normal route to Text Processing 5 would be as follows : |
| 3 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 4 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 5 | Experts have concluded that , given public health initiatives to minimise or eliminate involuntary public exposure to other environmental pollutants with less carcinogenic potency than several of the substances in tobacco smoke , similar efforts to prevent involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke are necessary . |
| 6 | All of these points explain religious and economic resistance to state education and the ideas which forces change ; together they explain the slow pace of educational development . |
| 7 | The scent of wood smoke or burning peat , the smells of home baking , the sight of a lighted candle , are all things which make a sharp contrast with life in the present day , and which help to bring the historic building to life . |
| 8 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 9 | One of the greatest dangers to Amnesty International and other in the human rights movement is the increasing tendency of governments to control human rights through ‘ verbal formula ’ and resourcing , and to base it on multilateral diplomacy rather than international human rights law . |
| 10 | The creation of special units as an administrative response to disaffection heightens the tension between the principles that operate when deviant behaviour is perceived and subsequently acted upon . |
| 11 | It was her usual response to shock . |
| 12 | Apart from intervention , the other usual response to currency pressure has been a rise or reduction in interest rates . |
| 13 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 14 | Further evidence for the existence of the two pathways was that activated enzyme protein kinase C can restore the cellular response to depolarisation , but not to ACh . |
| 15 | The General Accident will insure you for all sums which you become legally liable to pay for loss of metered water resulting directly from accidental damage to water pipes and apparatus providing service to the buildings described in the schedule . |
| 16 | 4* and 5* policies cover all sums for which the policyholder becomes legally liable to pay for loss of metered water resulting directly from accidental damage to water pipes and apparatus providing service to the buildings described in the schedule . |
| 17 | accidental damage to property or accidental injury to any other person . |
| 18 | In fact , the sweating response to acetylcholine is reported to diminish gradually ( one to two years ) after denervation . |
| 19 | Not only may churchmen have lost kinsmen in the recent fighting , but enemy harrying had almost certainly resulted in extensive damage to church lands and possessions . |
| 20 | A. mandible from barn owl assemblage with intact ascending ramus ( ×10 ) ; B. mandible from long-eared owl assemblage with broken ascending ramus ( ×8 ) ; C. mandible from short-eared owl assemblage with cracked ascending ramus and missing coronoid process ( ×9 ) ; D. same with inferior angle broken ( ×19 ) ; E. mandible from Verreaux eagle owl assemblage with broken ascending ramus ( ×9 ) ; F. mandible from tawny owl assemblage with broken coronoid process and the beginning of damage to the inferior border ( ×6 ) ; G. mandible from little owl assemblage with missing ascending ramus and broken inferior border exposing the incisor ( ×6 ) ; H. mandible from tawny owl assemblage with extensive damage to ramus and inferior border ( ×9 ) ; 1 . |
| 21 | The diversion of the Danube into a new canal in October caused the deaths of thousands of fish and extensive damage to riverside vegetation . |
| 22 | Clashes between Moslems and Hindus ensued and spread to several other towns , resulting in 60 deaths and extensive damage to property . |
| 23 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 24 | Environmentalists stress that these are only preliminary findings , and that over the next few years , more extensive damage to wildlife in the Sound may be uncovered . |
| 25 | In fact , the Council went on at once to put this principle into practice and agree that admission to communion ( that is to say , in common parlance , partial intercommunion ) may be accepted ‘ in order to promote closer union ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 26 ) . |
| 26 | Grounds for making order under section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 — whether risk of economic damage to defendant pending prosecution sufficient grounds |
| 27 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 28 | A possible committal to prison on account of her long-standing beliefs did not frighten her in the least . |
| 29 | He 's the sea captain in charge of this sinking ship whose character switches from Mr Nice Guy to raging megalomaniac to hero of the day — all in less than two hours . |
| 30 | Further problems highlighted by the chapter are the failure to recognize ethnic diversity and differences ( Asian is used to describe people from' India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , for example ) ; over-simplification of correlations and exclusion of environmental and societal influences ( e.g. attributing a black child 's intellectual and emotional impairment to parenting rather than to school and/or other family and community ) . |