Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end we all need to be engaged in a programme of progressive disengagement from injury to animals . |
| 2 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 3 | Parliamentary opposition groups were also active in the anti-government protests , but their focus was on political regrouping following their defeat in the May 1990 elections , parliamentary opposition to government policies and political manoeuvring in response to NSF proposals to involve them in a government coalition . |
| 4 | The precise outcome of these changes will not be known for a little while , but regrettably it will almost certainly result in a lower financial provision for IT and many other areas in the longer term , and quite probably a significant lower level of commitment to new grants in all areas in the current academic session , since the sharpest adjustment needs to be made for 1991/92 . |
| 5 | IBM claims that the Power/4 implements a unique parallel processing architecture , with memory bottlenecks reduced by the use of local memory for each processor in addition to shared system memory , eliminating the need for continuous updating of the cache for each processor unless the data is actually shared . |
| 6 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 7 | There is a growing tendency for brokers to offer a range of services encompassing personal financial planning , tax planning , insurance planning , and private banking in addition to discretionary and advisory portfolio management . |
| 8 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 9 | Furthermore , we felt that the very name ZZAP ! belonged to times gone by , and no longer imparted the right kind of message to potential readers . |
| 10 | That bit about screw to their heart 's content ? |
| 11 | The rise of ‘ green ’ issues , indeed , was more naturally appealing to Labour or Alliance politicians , and a powerful reminder of the rich variety of resistance to Thatcherism that British society could release . |
| 12 | Could it be some odd kind of loyalty to Naylor Massingham ? |
| 13 | The significant point is that you have to split a manoeuvre up and experiment with each part for practice to be worth while . |
| 14 | It is therefore usual for the offer letter to contain a clause permitting the investor , its accountants and other professional advisers to conduct due diligence in relation to the target business . |
| 15 | You see , paradoxically , C One little one and C One little three in fact give a strong measure of protection to the er character of the conservation areas do they not ? |
| 16 | The cell gets used to damming the flood of drug-induced noise in order to be able to deal with the faint whispers of reality that float on top of it . |
| 17 | Is it not clear from today 's awful rise in unemployment to more than 2.5 million that the recession is continuing ? |
| 18 | In terms of speed , we found , using the parallel cabling ( and it 's a special cable , so not just any old parallel cable will do ) that response from server to client was as quick as using a native drive . |
| 19 | A complete course of value to both native and non-native speakers of English who wish to acquire knowledge of and practice in the full gamut of business communication : letters , memos , graphs , telex , flow-charts , timetables , year-planners , proof reading , itineraries , CVs and many more . |
| 20 | The scheme is backed up with tough quotas , both for the amount of each kind of packaging to be collected , and for the amount to be recycled . |
| 21 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 22 | Obituaries stressed his standing as master silversmith , ‘ very instrumental in bringing that Branch of Trade to the Perfection it is now in ’ . |
| 23 | The normal change from larva to adult is triggered by the larva ceasing production of juvenile hormone . |
| 24 | Consider it essential proper principles are consolidated and that action can be taken in each case without reference to you . |
| 25 | The question is designed to see how well you understand the significance of that part in relation to the whole topic ( explaining the decline of the Liberal party 1906–24 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes — well me and Rich fight from time to time . |
| 27 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 28 | A low reserve level in relation to annual imports or debt obligations could signify future problems . |
| 29 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 30 | They are particularly intercsting because they produce several calls and each call is specific to a particular type of predator : a low grunt in response to eagles , a high chutter in response to snakes like pythons and a rather pure tone in response to leopards . |