Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyebrow lifted in ironic apology to Meredith , and he smiled benignly . |
| 2 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Rhys was a close personal friend of Corliss Lamont , that great champion of free speech in America who contributed in large measure to the ultimate defeat of Senator McCarthy 's witch-hunting . |
| 4 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 5 | Hence , the implication is that the price of equity will fall in direct proportion to the increase in the use of debt in the financial structure . |
| 6 | That £780 million is part of the 85 per cent. , give or take a couple of percentage points , that central taxation and the unified business rate provide in financial support to our local authorities . |
| 7 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 8 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 9 | All are located in close proximity to one another , providing scope for multiple syndicate as well as plenary sessions . |
| 10 | Equally , the fact that in the case of machine-readable files technological advances reduces the need for archival records and their users to be located in physical proximity to one another , the possibility to link and integrate electronic cold-stores removed from the archive per se may result in significant economies of scale ( Morris 1992 ) . |
| 11 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 12 | Our distinction , ‘ transactional / interactional ’ , stands in general correspondence to the functional dichotomies — ‘ representative / expressive ’ , found in Bühler ( 1934 ) , ‘ referential / emotive ’ ( Jakobson , 1960 ) , ‘ ideational / interpersonal ’ ( Halliday , 1970b ) and ‘ descriptive / social-expressive ’ ( Lyons , 1977 ) , |
| 13 | Their collective attitude stands in stark contrast to that of the other major second generation immigrant group in modern Britain . |
| 14 | A huge dome of moorland-covered granite , Dartmoor stands in stark contrast to the mild coastal area of South Devon . |
| 15 | This high level of mortality stands in stark contrast to the operation of support mechanism for large companies and was highlighted vividly during the recession of the mid-1970s . |
| 16 | For it is often supposed that his attitude towards women stands in stark contrast to that of the surrounding society . |
| 17 | I recognise that this finding stands in stark contrast to the finding that was implicit in my decision on Wednesday night/Thursday morning . |
| 18 | The rather weak response of Sir Robert Megarry stands in sharp contrast to the decision in Kennedy v. Ireland , where the High Court of Ireland was faced with a much more difficult question , also in the context of telephone-tapping . |
| 19 | The line is never a true crack until near the top , where pumped arms alight on bigger , better jugs and the usual abrupt Pembroke finish : horizontal relief stands in sharp contrast to the unrelenting verticality beneath . |
| 20 | The principle of equality of political power which is embodied in the possession by each and every citizen of one vote stands in sharp contrast to the blatant inequalities in the distribution of political power in almost every other important respect . |
| 21 | The lucid , pitiless voice of the communist narrator stands in sharp contrast to the amorphous , non-reflective consciousness of the central protagonist . |
| 22 | The holiness of the Spirit of the Lord stands in sharp contrast to the unholiness of his fallible servants , and perhaps this is why the Spirit is here called Holy . |
| 23 | Its curriculum stands in sharp contrast to the strongly traditional course at Kenya 's first and much older medical school in Nairobi . |
| 24 | Apart from this pivotal incident , which itself stands in awkward relationship to the rest of the book , the bare bones of the story are unexceptional . |
| 25 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 26 | South Africa stands in apparent contrast to the rest of the states considered here : a regional military superpower with a relatively strong and diversified economy , built on its mineral wealth and on the exploitation of the cheap labour of its black majority . |
| 27 | The freedom of the Secretary of State to depart from the recommendations of the National Curriculum Council ( to which proposals on attainment targets and programmes of study must be referred ) , as in effect happened in the case of the history curriculum , stands in marked contrast to the restrictions binding teachers under the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 29 | The English requirement of oral presentation of the whole of the case stands in marked contrast to the rules obtaining in other jurisdictions . |
| 30 | Similarly , Ford 's post-1980 experience stands in marked contrast to the ‘ rich complacency ’ of the 1970s : the company 's entire product spectrum was directly challenged by Continental European and Japanese competition . |