Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It pursues the hostilities begun in the series 25 years ago and much of the old formula : attempted allegory to political developments on this planet ; loud space effects . |
| 2 | This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly . |
| 3 | It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries . |
| 4 | The need for political choice from among a range of policy options is thus played down , in favour of a managerial and technical response to practical problems . |
| 5 | Also recommended were : the establishment of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) to grant degrees to students in non-university establishments [ this happened the following year ] ; the raising of the status of teacher training colleges to colleges of education offering BEd degrees , and their integration into universities [ the former has happened , but not the latter ] ; the granting of university status to the ten colleges of advanced technology [ this was accepted ] , and in due course to other colleges [ this did not happen ; instead , from 1966 many of these became the new polytechnics ] ; and the establishment of special institutions for scientific and technological education and research ( SISTERS ) [ this has not been implemented ] . |
| 6 | ( We must return in due course to this argument that women are cooperative conversationalists , which has been quite influential in feminist linguistics . ) |
| 7 | Though the proportion of such people on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain looks small by comparison , in fact it varied greatly from one administrative division to another , reaching almost three-fifths in the Liberty of the archbishop of Canterbury where , as on many ecclesiastical estates , the condition of the people tended to backward-ness , with villeinage lingering on . |
| 8 | Bhutto refused the Army 's demands , which some PPP politicians claimed would amount to an undeclared resort to martial law . |
| 9 | History shows that the usual response to violent protest and riots was repression . |
| 10 | New Historicism 's usual response to this is to expand on Montrose 's point about the inevitability of critical partiality existing . |
| 11 | In what is perhaps the most usual response to these altered judgements against crime between pre-war and postwar years , of course , it is suggested that such incidents have become ‘ more serious ’ or ‘ more violent ’ as the years have gone by . |
| 12 | In a short and irreverent sketch which aims to explain subsequent inaction on implementing the reform in Portugal , Ribeiro calls on a concept in the Portuguese language known as desenrasca — multiform resistance to rational planning and change . |
| 13 | Altered integrin receptor expression by hepatocytes during disease provides a mechanism by which the cellular response to normal and abnormal matrix may be further modulated . |
| 14 | Given the relationship between the levels of protein-tyrosine phosphorylation , receptor activity , cellular proliferation and cell-cycle control , the induction of this gene may play an important regulatory role in the human cellular response to environmental stress . |
| 15 | We speculate that the PTPase encoded by the CL100 gene may play an important regulatory role in the cellular response to adverse environmental challenges , including oxidants and hyperthermia . |
| 16 | All policies exclude accidental damage to fixed glass if the premises are insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for more than 30 days . |
| 17 | All policies exclude accidental damage to sanitary fixtures if the premises are insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for more than 30 days . |
| 18 | Most basic building policies do , however , cover accidental damage to underground gas , electricity , oil , water and sewage pipes or cables . |
| 19 | Accidental damage to underground service pipes and cables . |
| 20 | Mrs Hugh Dalton doubled the Labour majority to 7,072 , remarking at the declaration on the ‘ ever deepening distress ’ of the South Durham people . |
| 21 | A shef organization from the towns such as an individual factory would take on the role of cultural and political mentor to some rural group . |
| 22 | Despite the extensive damage to Kuwaiti oilfields in particular , the earlier predictions of massive oil price increases in the event of war were thus not fulfilled . |
| 23 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 24 | In total contrast to this ancient village is the long stretch of beach , nightlife , bars and bodegas , all of which add up to make a holiday in Mojacar a most memorable and enjoyable one . |
| 25 | The British played an important part in triggering off a European response to American signals that large-scale aid would be forthcoming only if the Europeans themselves demonstrated an ability to co-operate and to produce a programme for recovery which satisfied American criteria . |
| 26 | Qureshi and Simon 's ( 1987 ) work , on exchanges of assistance between elderly people and their kin , and Wilson 's ( 1987 ) findings on grandparents ' support for their grandchildren , both show that women as well as men give economic support to younger generations , but there are some gender differences in the type of support given . |
| 27 | The channel will allow boats to move from low tide to high-level river water bypassing the barrage . |
| 28 | But not-withstanding a strong attachment to Schopenhauerian doctrine , Wagner does not evince any serious theoretical interest in tragedy as such ; and therefore he can not , one might add , effectively reassert the special claims of tragedy , especially Greek tragedy , which Schopenhauer himself had tended to discount . |
| 29 | Speaking as a man who rather enjoys cover compilations — and remembers with gratitude the ‘ NME 's role in bringing us The Fall 's ‘ A Day In The Life ’ — I have to concede that the normal response to such collections is a powerful yearning to hear the originals again . |
| 30 | The normal response to that suggestion is that children in rural schools must not be denied the educational opportunities which are open to other children . |