Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privately-owned housing varies from the detached to the terraced and , for a variety of reasons , detached housing is the most expensive . |
| 2 | Stratimirović tried to prevent Vuk from publishing his grammar by invoking an order of Leopold II giving a monopoly to the publishing of books in Serbian to the Serbian press in Buda , which , unlike that in Vienna , was under the influence of the Church . |
| 3 | These orders relate partly to training , partly to rights of audience in different courts , and partly to matters peculiar to the internal regulation of the Inns and the dress , appearance and deportment of their members . |
| 4 | The importance of empirical material from anthropological research , and from the analyst 's research work in therapeutic encounters , is not the relatively superficial one of seeking to explain the actions of people who act in ways which appear as strange and peculiar to the ordinary members of modern Western societies . |
| 5 | One obvious problem is whether social representations are peculiar to the modern age , or indeed to scientific thinking , or whether they appeared previously . |
| 6 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 7 | There will be additional checks , peculiar to the individual aircraft flow and you will need to incorporate these into the standard checks . |
| 8 | But in a modern text such as Thru which mimics the classical narrator in order to counter classical conceptions of subjectivity and narrative voice , the narrator undergoes the effects of ‘ fading ’ peculiar to the traditional novel as well . |
| 9 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 10 | The latter document should , of course , contain any provisions which may be peculiar to the new partner , especially as regards clarification of his status in the firm , his involvement in the decision making process and the precise extent of liabilities which he is required to undertake or against which he will be entitled to an indemnity ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Citizenship as a subject of discussion was not peculiar to the early twentieth century , but it occupied a special place in the strategy of the boy labour group , and other reformers , in solving the problems posed by working-class adolescence . |
| 12 | Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period . |
| 13 | He wondered , in his Inverness passage , whether it was ‘ peculiar to the Scots to have attained the liberal , without the manual arts , to have excelled in ornamental knowledge , and to have wanted not only the elegancies , but the conveniences of common life ’ . |
| 14 | For the time being , and probably for the foreseeable future , the rather vague criterion remains that of ‘ episcopal ordination ’ , vague because that procedure is not peculiar to the Anglican Church . |
| 15 | Such fissures were by no means peculiar to the middle classes of the Russian Empire : analogous divisions can be found throughout Europe . |
| 16 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
| 17 | He goes on to point out that words like ‘ comfort ’ and ‘ home ’ are peculiar to the English language , so that the benighted French are driven to borrow confortable , since de la maison and chez nous relate merely to eating and sleeping places . |
| 18 | The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether . |
| 19 | Early morning and afternoon game drives , where you will see most of the common species of African wildlife , together with those peculiar to the northern province . |
| 20 | The other is to make meaning central and to construct a scientific method peculiar to the social world . |
| 21 | The underlying attitude in Whitehall and Washington was not so different from that of Deng Xiaoping : the events of last year had been part of an essentially inscrutable and probably cyclical process which was peculiar to the Chinese . |
| 22 | Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s . |
| 23 | As always , it is necessary to know the range of applicability of any measurement — whether it is relevant to other similar flows or whether it is peculiar to the particular situation investigated . |
| 24 | It 's not common practice to register notice of a contract in all cases , but when , for example , there 's an unusually long deferred completion date , or when your buyer-client suspects the good faith of the seller , or if there is a contract by correspondence , or for any other special reason peculiar to the particular transaction , a Notice should be seriously considered and the client consulted and advised . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , there are features peculiar to the computational approach that have important implications for physiological psychologists and these are the topic of this section . |
| 26 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 27 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , through his energy and skill , he has now given a powerful send-off to the new United Nations and its new Secretary-General in the very complex and difficult tasks that we expect the UN to have to face in the post-cold-war world ? |
| 29 | The crowd gave a good send-off to the latter when he was substituted so I suppose he did well . |
| 30 | This includes personal " tics " , ways of moving one 's head , habits such as nail-biting , which are peculiar to individuals and not generalisable to the whole group . |