Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd Isaac , the outstanding reserve hooker to Kevin Phillips , is a longer-term casualty ; a knee injury against Bath last Saturday required surgery and he will not be involved against New Zealand or for two months afterwards . |
| 2 | TO THE poignant music of the ‘ Last Post ’ , InterCity made railway history on May 20 by celebrating the centenary of the completion of the GWR 's transition from Brunel 's seven-foot broad gauge to Stephenson 's narrower standard gauge . |
| 3 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 4 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 5 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 6 | At half past crack next morning we emerged , breakfasted and loaded into the van to drive the 70 odd miles to Devizes . |
| 7 | With that painstaking attention to detail which is always held to characterize genius , Dickinson had spent the Sunday morning before the Gold Cup briefing his stable jockeys , Robert Earnshaw ( Silver Buck ) , Graham Bradley ( Bregawn ) and the assistant trainer Dermot Browne ( Ashley House ) , and on the morning of the race walked round the course with these three , Jonjo O'Neill ( Wayward Lad ) and David Goulding ( Captain John ) to discuss riding strategy . |
| 8 | Total outstanding debt to CMEA US$6,000 m. ( 1989 ) |
| 9 | Security Council Resolution 678 sends the clearest possible signal to Iraq that the international community is determined to ensure full restoration of international legality . " |
| 10 | In a week when the Spectator could editorialise that economic aid to Africa is ‘ counterproductive and profoundly wicked ’ ( my — incredulous — emphasis ) , they should ask themselves whose side they are really on . |
| 11 | of the greatest possible benefit to students . |
| 12 | Ministers of Information know … that it is in the State 's own interests to give the greatest possible freedom to institutions that depend on it , provided of course that they are well-managed . |
| 13 | He will venture to suggest , with the greatest possible respect to Mr. Justice Blank , that his lordship perhaps did not intend his words to be understood in their widest acceptation . |
| 14 | Although Algeria would later prove to be the scene of last-ditch French resistance to decolonization , in the mood of the country in 1945 independence for Vietnam was equally inconceivable . |
| 15 | At these levels , the complex variation which encodes rich social meanings to insiders simply becomes progressively more and more redundant : it is no longer functional for these mobile people . |
| 16 | By this time , The Smiths had embarked on their most extensive British tour to date . |
| 17 | While acknowledging Bull 's need to economise in light of its losses last year , the representative said the union will insist on the usual social payments to employees leaving voluntarily . |
| 18 | The colonic motor response to eating , characterised by both low amplitude , frequent , irregularly spaced contractions , and occasional high-amplitude propagated contractions , show that eating is one of the most physiological and powerful stimuli to elicit colonic motility . |
| 19 | They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ? |
| 20 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 21 | There have been no mortality trials of adequate sample size to assess the role of heparin as sole adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis . |
| 22 | However , patency data on heparin as sole adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis do not clearly support this view . |
| 23 | This , the clearest public indication to date of Mr Mandela 's views on talks with the government , emerged from an Independent interview yesterday with Albertina Sisulu , who , together with anti-apartheid leaders , met Mr Mandela at his prison house for four hours on Tuesday . |
| 24 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 25 | Soviet President Gorbachev made a historic four-day visit to Japan on April 16-19 , during which he held several sessions of talks with Kaifu . |
| 26 | The Saudi Arabian ambassador to Yemen and an adviser were rescued by security sources on April 20 after being held hostage for 18 hours . |
| 27 | The deckhouse contains a small area of seating and a spacious wet locker to port . |
| 28 | Specific plans include the reintroduction of captive-bred brown bears to Austria , and European lynx to the eastern Alps . |
| 29 | Taking the 90 odd old cars to India has been the beauty and the beast of the London to Sydney Marathon . |
| 30 | This distinction provides a useful basis for a review and evaluation of specific theoretical approaches to football hooliganism . |