Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] to the " in BNC.

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1 Were the activities undertaken suited to the capacities of the children ?
2 This suggests that it is the major influence of the transmural pressure on this parameter calculated according to the Law of LaPlace .
3 Party leaders should be free to devise programmes designed to appeal to the electorate as a whole , and they should only have to hold themselves vaguely accountable to the people through the direct mechanism of regular general elections .
4 First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law .
5 The pace of change varied according to the region so that a building layout considered out of date in one area might still be fashionable in another .
6 The use of strategies varied according to the occupational category : at the professional and managerial level , 82 per cent of employers used strategy 2 , and at the technician level it was used by 74 per cent .
7 The grant varied according to the employee 's grade .
8 All weights given refer to the extra-large size or equivalent .
9 It is a programme designed to add to the wealth and efficiency of the nation , to give a spur to industry and to open the way to markets . ’
10 A lawyer prepared to fight to the death
11 There is a progressive increase in the percentage of cases with defective cardia in all parameters evaluated according to the severity of endoscopic oesophagitis , which is significantly more pronounced in patients with oesophagitis Grade III and IV ( p<0.001 ) .
12 In order to extend the open reading frame 3' to the POU domain , first strand cDNA was prepared from P3/NS-1/1-Ag-4.1 cells and Oct-11 cDNA sequences amplified according to the RACE procedure ( 31 ) .
13 Carolyn sat with her eyes closed listening to the water running and the traffic outside .
14 MR MAJOR raised the stakes in the final phase of the election campaign last night with a passionate warning that Labour and Liberal Democrat policies threatened to lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom .
15 The method of hunting varied according to the nature of the country .
16 As a result , the amount of the proceeds deemed to relate to the debt will be less than par value .
17 Both the Great Western and the Midland were involved in the carriage of produce from the Vale of Evesham virtually all the year round , but the actual cargoes varied according to the time of year .
18 The attitudes of subordinates towards their work varied according to the style of leadership they thought their boss exercised .
19 The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays .
20 All proceeds raised went to the Royal Marsden Cancer Research Appeal .
21 The ambience evoked belongs to the era before a Neo-classicism to which the volume is ostensibly devoted , but no one will complain about that .
22 If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name .
23 While she would not have scored highly in a bout conducted according to the Queensberry Rules , she was strong , agile and quite unscrupulous , since the evenings and holidays of her childhood had been spent in back street and wasteland where enemies , from time immemorial , have come together .
24 The most imaginative records ever made of English motets from the age of Byrd are the work of Andrew Parrott 's Taverner Consort , a group fixed in name but always differently constituted in personnel , the number of singers chosen according to the specific task in hand .
25 Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that
26 Recurrence in the three treatment groups ( Fig 4 ) — Of the 21 recurrences diagnosed according to the trial criteria , there were four in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups .
27 Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised .
28 Make sure that the seat is safety secured according to the manufacturers instructions , and that the integral harness is always correctly fastened .
29 Having Tom had added to the excess .
30 There , the chief executive was to be a Protestant and the deputy chief executive a Catholic with ‘ Cabinet ’ seats apportioned according to the two-to-one Protestant majority in the province .
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