Example sentences of "[noun] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 2 | By uncovering the contribution made by ‘ serious ’ religion to the wider Ulster society by c1900 this study will make more comprehensible many neglected aspects of life and custom in the twentieth-century Ulster . |
| 3 | Now we find in fact for the levels radiation that used , the risks to the individual patients are very very low indeed er generally less than one in a thousand chance of some adverse effect . |
| 4 | For women , this again means another medical reason for interference in our fertility and pregnancy , and it also begs questions about risks to the resulting children , and the ethics of having scientists make such profound changes to human beings . |
| 5 | The newly appointed Minister for National Heritage , David Mellor , ( left ) presents a £50,000 cheque on behalf of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts to the new president of the Lord 's Taverners , Leslie Crowther , at the charity 's St George 's Day concert at the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 6 | Ten of these are the successors to the regional water authorities and they also provide sewerage services . |
| 7 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 8 | The successors to the old skins tended to side with the teds , who were pro-British and for the Union Jack , whereas the punks were anti-royalist and happy to stick safety-pins into pictures of the Queen . |
| 9 | Balfour , directed by the pistol 's point , moved with speed but dignity from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 11 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 12 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 13 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 14 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 15 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 16 | The debt which never appears in any balance sheet or account is that owed by the Association to the fund-raising efforts of its supporters and the generosity of the public . |
| 17 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 18 | The mechanism of action of the ASFV protein similar to the eukaryotic TFIIS and to the vaccinia virus protein rpo30 could shed light on this matter , considering that the eukaryotic protein is an RNA polymerase-associated transcription factor , while rpo30 is considered a true enzyme subunit due to its tight association to the viral enzyme ( 10 ) . |
| 19 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 20 | Here Gabriel said to the eldest brother , " Because of your kindness to the poor traveller , you can make any wish and it will be granted . " |
| 21 | ‘ I see , ’ Craig said in amusement , ‘ so your kindness to the young lady was n't entirely for my benefit . ’ |
| 22 | Miss Lowe remembers her kindness to the smaller children , her love of animals and general helpfulness but not her academic potential . |
| 23 | His kindness to the old lady had been completely disinterested . |
| 24 | She twisted her head to catch the coroner 's eye as he scowled across at the innkeeper who was busy gossiping to the other customers around the great wine barrels . |
| 25 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 26 | The senate is the opposition 's counterweight to the new president . |
| 27 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 28 | But although nurses had acquired heightened managerial opportunities they were ill-equipped by tradition or training to take advantage of them and often simply managerially incompetent ( Strong and Robinson 1990 ) , an ineffective counterweight to the medical members . |
| 29 | Pressing our itching ears to the caressing fingers . |
| 30 | She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box . |