Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ . |
| 2 | This development raises important policy issues for bank regulators , in particular because of the possible additional risks to individual institutions and to the banking system as a whole . |
| 3 | But , once more , the qualifications were liberally added : ‘ as long as the individual is active and capable of carrying out the required duties ’ ; and ‘ where risks to other persons are involved ( eg driving ) , then adequate checks on ability should be made . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 5 | Employers are also obliged to assess the risks to pregnant women and protect them from those risks and adjust working conditions and hours of work to protect their health and safety . |
| 6 | Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . |
| 7 | Editor , — B G Evans and colleagues conclude the discussion of their paper by stating , ‘ Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . ’ |
| 8 | Consideration of funding in relation to population distribution and the needs of the region seems to indicate a low and decreasing ratio of support from South East Arts to those areas of North Kent which can generally recognized as the Medway area . |
| 9 | SUCCESSORS to one-arm bandits , fruit machines have to pay out 70p for each £1 slotted in . |
| 10 | As the population of Wales is smaller and more dispersed than in England , the creation of community councils as successors to former boroughs and urban district councils was more widespread than the creation of successor parishes in England . |
| 11 | ‘ I must stress that we can detect these signals with my machine and we have already managed to give certain characteristics to certain signals — joy — frustration — sorrow , etc . |
| 12 | It is characterized by a tendency to stereotype , that is , a tendency to assign identical characteristics to whole groups regardless of individual variations ( Twitchin and Demuth , 1985 , p. 170 ; Aronson , 1980 , p. 197 ) . |
| 13 | So we spent the whole afternoon in aimless beer-drinking and student ragging , singing student songs to stamping feet and clapping hands . |
| 14 | ( Three songs to vernacular texts in carol form , surviving in an early sixteenth-century volume of courtly and devotional songs and attributed just to ‘ Brown ’ , are probably by a different composer . ) |
| 15 | An insect with a primary infection on a leg can easily spread spores to other locations simply by brushing the infected appendage against other parts of the body , and non-sexual contact with an infected individual can also initiate infections in randomly-scattered locations . |
| 16 | Though canine distemper virus transcripts ( and in one case measles virus also ) have been isolated from pagetic tissue , these data must be interpreted with caution in view of the possibility of external contamination , since the same group had previously worked with probes to both viruses during earlier in situ hybridisation studies . |
| 17 | But his first probes to local schools met with an enthusiastic response . |
| 18 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 19 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
| 20 | It likes to rent its chalets to whole groups travelling together for £500 to £1,000 each half-board — not cheap but a bargain for what you get . |
| 21 | type cars , it was decided to fit top covers to these cars . |
| 22 | But it is as Anne Rice that she is most accessible , writing about history and horror with everything from eighteenth-century castrati in Venice and Scottish demons to Egyptian mummies in Edwardian England . |
| 23 | Whether the holiday is a gathering of opera buffs in Glyndebourne or a trek of vampire fans to Transylvanian castles , it is great fun because everyone has the same interest at heart . |
| 24 | The National Council of Aviculture are bringing this special talent along with an assortment of their birds — everything from canaries to spectacular birds of prey . |
| 25 | Furthermore , Britain 's liberal capital market has allowed easier access for foreigners to British firms than vice versa and this has caused some to claim that British industry is vulnerable . |
| 26 | In early December a former Kuwaiti minister had estimated total costs resulting from the invasion at over US$40,000 million , half as a result of destruction and looting , and half as a result of the freezing of Kuwaiti foreign assets , losses to private businesses and unrealized oil production . |
| 27 | Restrict sugary snacks to four times per day . |
| 28 | Reduce sugary snacks to three times a day . |
| 29 | For reasons that we shall discuss in Chapter 9 , the members of a colony of social insects co-operate with one another , and they will therefore give signal that are as informative as possible ; they will not usually give deceptive signals to fellow members of their colony . |
| 30 | ( Note : A modem is a device for converting analogue signals to digital signals , and vice versa ) |