Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 2 | States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage . |
| 3 | to explore the contribution of religion to human identity and fulfilment , both individual and corporate ; |
| 4 | By picking away at every factual link in the chain from furnace to fishless lake , Britain 's electricity industry hoped to avoid any restrictions on atmospheric discharges , whether ‘ arbitrary ’ or not . |
| 5 | Further work is underway to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11 . |
| 6 | Starvation is out and curves are in — there 's even a National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance . |
| 7 | He devotes one chapter of the book to each of these trends : 1 ) from an industrial society to an information society ; 2 ) from forced technology to high tech/high touch ( this typical jargon describes the increasing importance of human , social and spiritual responses to advanced technology ) ; 3 ) from national economic concerns to world economic concerns ; 4 ) from short-term thinking to long-term thinking and planning ; 5 ) from centralisation to decentralisation ; 6 ) from institutional help to self-help ; 7 ) from representative democracy to participatory democracy ; 8 ) from hierarchies to networking ; 9 ) from north to south ( within the United States ) ; and 10 ) from either-or to multiple options . |
| 8 | The strident anti-union bloc of small businessmen , outraged sections of the middle classes , and probably also elements of the non-union working class , was not a sufficient counterweight to organised labour , given the tendency for the management of large enterprises to stand above the fray . |
| 9 | On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . |
| 10 | It does not entitle the contractor to additional money . |
| 11 | Dr Sue Jennings , a pioneer in dramatherapy , described how an infertile woman may learn to identify sorrow and rage against the sterile womb which , every month , rejects the fertilized egg : how she can move from passive grief to weeping rage in which she pounds her belly with her hands , railing against its refusal to give a home to the child she desperately wants . |
| 12 | In a forward to Modern Policing ( Pope and Weiner ibid . ) , |
| 13 | Bring the stock to boiling point in a saucepan and add the orzo . |
| 14 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 15 | In spite of pressures in providing space for ever-growing collections and discussions of relegating stock to closed access stores , the value of open access has continued to be defended . |
| 16 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 17 | Good food control contributes a great deal to good weight control . |
| 18 | Drills are generally subjected to harder work , with variables such as the nature and density of the material ; from soft deal to hard oak , even metal and concrete . |
| 19 | and I accept that that nevertheless contributed a great deal to added uncertainty and added unrest in the Highfields area . |
| 20 | * Based on a family of 4 using 200 gallons of hot water per week via a direct cylinder , changing from Domestic General Tariff to full Economy 7 water heating . |
| 21 | We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management , and examine how to apply it to white-collar services . |
| 22 | Central government intervention in local government tendering began with the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 which applied competitive tendering to local authority direct labour organisations ( DLO ) . |
| 23 | So , far from it being appropriate to assimilate inner perception to outer perception , as Locke does , we must acknowledge that mental phenomena are ‘ the only phenomena of which perception in the strict sense of the word is possible ’ . |
| 24 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
| 25 | Attempts to lower unemployment by means of a boost to monetary demand will work through into an increasing rate of inflation because of sticky prices and wages and increasing expectations of inflation ( i.e. there is an absence of a money illusion ) . |
| 26 | Historians and others have written about the boost to economic activity from technology , religion , and the ideas of political economy . |
| 27 | The removal of administrative and physical barriers after 1992/93 could , in theory , give a substantial boost to economic growth by allowing the development of more natural economic market areas . |
| 28 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 29 | Despite the boost to foreign exchange revenue due to recent higher oil prices ( total foreign exchange earnings in 1991 were projected at US$11,855 million ) , the budget was nevertheless adjudged a cautious one , with Babangida stressing strict discipline in its implementation . |
| 30 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils acknowledged the need for a boost to clinical research , but rejected the Medical Research Council 's proposals for a new centre linking basic laboratory research to clinical research in a hospital setting and postgraduate education . |