Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small interim rise to profits of £300m is due on Tuesday for food and drink group Allied-Lyons which has just got the go-ahead for the merger of its brewing interests with Carlsberg . |
| 2 | He 's the sea captain in charge of this sinking ship whose character switches from Mr Nice Guy to raging megalomaniac to hero of the day — all in less than two hours . |
| 3 | Given Aitken 's fervent support for the Biafrans , it is not unfair to assume that any suggestion of confidence that was not specifically expressed would have been dampened in his mind , since the publication of the document in his view would lend strong support to critics of the government 's policy . |
| 4 | Israeli response to deployment of Moslem militias in southern Lebanon |
| 5 | PLANS for a hotel and leisure development at Bodelwyddan Castle are moving ahead , but officials face strong opposition to part of the package . |
| 6 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 7 | Not least , perhaps , the mariner 's story spoke of man 's tragic and childlike vulnerability to forces of destruction both from within himself and beyond . |
| 8 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 9 | CHARLES DARWIN in an uncharacteristically generous donation to scientists of later generations , left an unsolved problem . |
| 10 | However , a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease . |
| 11 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 12 | The failure of Iraqi units to respond to the increasingly aggressive tactics of the allied ground forces gave further credence to reports of low morale and inadequate supply . |
| 13 | A second instrument of control is the direct subordination to Moscow of the Armed forces and security services , making it possible to bypass the national leadership . |
| 14 | We have a cultural attachment to images of the ‘ rugged individualist ’ and the ‘ sharp shooters of the old west ’ . |
| 15 | Rats were given repeated exposure to presentations of a light in context A and were also familiarized with a different context ( B ) in which no stimuli were presented . |
| 16 | Associated with this rise to prominence of the social survey method were new modes of theorising about social action and social organisation . |
| 17 | With this rise to power of a single male deity and the concomitant lessening in status of the other members of the Israelite pantheon ( especially its female members ) , the role played by women in public religion began to diminish . |
| 18 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The union had already shown some opposition to aspects of Government policy , but this had always been voiced in a guarded or indirect way in its newspaper . |
| 21 | Often the swim bladder is involved in receiving sound and will act as an acoustic amplifier to sounds of the right resonant frequencies . |
| 22 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 23 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 24 | There may be promises that it will be paid back in three months , in direct proportion to clearance of outstanding client debts . |
| 25 | Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave . |
| 26 | Taking in part a similar line , the Civil Justice Review has recommended staff training to enable court staff to give direct assistance to members of the public in the handling of their cases . |
| 27 | The host raised an interesting topic — ‘ the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication ’ : Johnson , who does not mention this conversation , uses the word ‘ infamy ’ and relates sexual morality to laws of property . |
| 28 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 29 | The course would be a very detailed coverage of the potential of and techniques for using a particular DTP package ( e.g. , Ventura ) with some attention to questions of design . |
| 30 | Lord Cross paid some attention to matters of policy raised by the case . |