Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rider does n't just lean the bike into the corner — he knocks the machine on to its side , pushing heavily on the right handlebar to turn the front wheel to the left and drop the machine to the right . |
| 2 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 3 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 4 | The duties of the deacon were specified as ‘ to administer baptism solemnly , to be custodian and dispenser of the Eucharist , to assist at and bless marriages in the name of the Church , to bring viaticum to the dying , to read the Sacred Scriptures to the faithful , to instruct and exhort the people , to preside at the worship and prayer of the faithful , to administer Sacramentals , and to officiate at funeral and burial services ’ . |
| 5 | Balfour , directed by the pistol 's point , moved with speed but dignity from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 7 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 8 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 9 | The debt which never appears in any balance sheet or account is that owed by the Association to the fund-raising efforts of its supporters and the generosity of the public . |
| 10 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 11 | The mechanism of action of the ASFV protein similar to the eukaryotic TFIIS and to the vaccinia virus protein rpo30 could shed light on this matter , considering that the eukaryotic protein is an RNA polymerase-associated transcription factor , while rpo30 is considered a true enzyme subunit due to its tight association to the viral enzyme ( 10 ) . |
| 12 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 13 | Here Gabriel said to the eldest brother , " Because of your kindness to the poor traveller , you can make any wish and it will be granted . " |
| 14 | ‘ I see , ’ Craig said in amusement , ‘ so your kindness to the young lady was n't entirely for my benefit . ’ |
| 15 | His kindness to the old lady had been completely disinterested . |
| 16 | She twisted her head to catch the coroner 's eye as he scowled across at the innkeeper who was busy gossiping to the other customers around the great wine barrels . |
| 17 | De Michelis freely admitted that the Italians now also saw in the Pentagonale the means to create a counterweight to the political and economic power of a united Germany . |
| 18 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 19 | At Itxassou there are numbers of these simple memorial stones set in a fringe along the church wall , where they make an affecting counterweight to the overblown and ugly modern gravestones and monuments all around you . |
| 20 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 21 | The senate is the opposition 's counterweight to the new president . |
| 22 | But although nurses had acquired heightened managerial opportunities they were ill-equipped by tradition or training to take advantage of them and often simply managerially incompetent ( Strong and Robinson 1990 ) , an ineffective counterweight to the medical members . |
| 23 | Two fuselage plugs added nearly seven feet of fuselage to the hybrid AT–6/BT–13 combination . |
| 24 | A small girl , acting on instructions from her parents , approaches the old couple 's table and with a shy smile offers one end of a Christmas cracker to the old man , who snatches it from her grasp and stuffs it into his pocket . |
| 25 | White represents grief to the Chinese , Indians and Persians . |
| 26 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 27 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 28 | Reading that wealth of images had tested her powers of concentration to the utmost , yet this act of unremitting self-scrutiny had left her more energized than exhausted , for much of critical importance had emerged . |
| 29 | The practice has robbed Scottish rivers of much of its spawning stock to the great detriment of the whole Scottish economy |
| 30 | This practice has robbed your rivers of much of its spawning stock to the great detriment of the whole Scottish economy , for wild salmon bring money into the country in many ways and provide direct and indirect employment for many through anglers who fish for them in your rivers . |