Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 2 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 3 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 4 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 5 | Although the centre of gravity in Tudor and Stuart England stayed in the more open Midlands and East Anglia , the fringe counties produced strong variations to the general stability and prosperity of these two centuries . |
| 6 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |
| 7 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 8 | What is more , he learned from them , and applied that learning to his creative benefit . |
| 9 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 10 | Paris : Eurotunnel was the most active stock and one of the heaviest fallers as the CAC-40 index plunged 29.88 points to 1,876.24 . |
| 11 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 12 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 13 | But the judge , wrongly in our judgment , seized the reins , and made unnecessary reference to the possibility of the protection of professional privilege . |
| 14 | Mada Joyce had , it seemed , no husband but seven children from three different fathers , each apparently blacker than the one before and the latest , who occasionally visited and made half-hearted repairs to the shack , Nana dismissed as ‘ nothing but pure Negro . ’ |
| 15 | Miss Logan made indeterminate gestures to the priest , then set off in pursuit of her employer . |
| 16 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 17 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 18 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 19 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 20 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 21 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 22 | For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives . |
| 23 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 24 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 25 | Table 4.2 , which illustrates this , also shows that the state of the local labour market made little difference to the proportion regarding their first jobs as " stop-gap " . |
| 26 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 27 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 28 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 29 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 30 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |