Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 2 | Environmentalists stress that these are only preliminary findings , and that over the next few years , more extensive damage to wildlife in the Sound may be uncovered . |
| 3 | Appointed Assistant Classicist to Horn in 1951 , he had become Head of Department and Editor of The Stopfordian on the latter 's retirement in 1959 . |
| 4 | Essential oils evaporate readily and are easily damaged by light , extremes of temperature and prolonged exposure to oxygen in the air . |
| 5 | avoid the practice of giving gifts or commercial incentives to prospective pupils or their parents with the intention of inducing them to enrol and to take account of the possible damage to pupils in other educational establishments as a result of marketing activities . |
| 6 | Finally , on 17th August 1801 , Commander Dundas was appointed acting captain of the newly commissioned San Antonio , having completed the transition from junior lieutenant to post-captain in just over one year . |
| 7 | It would have been a devastating blow to morale in that summer , when everyone was on hair-trigger invasion alert . ’ |
| 8 | It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available . |
| 9 | The acute response to nicotine in these chronically treated rats was a significant decrease in gastric secretion . |
| 10 | inherent liability to wastage in bulk or weight , latent defect or inherent defect , vice or natural deterioration of the goods ; |
| 11 | inherent liability to wastage in bulk , or weight , latent defect or inherent defect vice or natural deterioration of the merchandise |
| 12 | The duration of exposure of the lower oesophagus to acid in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus is illustrated in Figure 2 , and shows that both groups had markedly increased acid exposure ( % total time pH <4= 19.2 ( 5.1 ) % v 19.3 ( 4.9 ) % ) , in comparison with asymptomatic controls . |
| 13 | There is also strong opposition to cuts in social security payments , training and cash to ease the introduction of the council tax . |
| 14 | As a matter of common courtesy , for example , a teacher would avoid giving private coaching to child in a colleague 's class . |
| 15 | Even companies doing relatively well must keep the tightest control on costs in the prevailing climate , and Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a voluntary severance-incentive programme to employees in some job categories , and looks for about 2,700 employees to leave in early 1993 , about 2,000 of them in the US . |
| 16 | It is all too simplistic to explain political developments in late 1930s Japan purely by reference to an inherent susceptibility to authoritarianism in socio-economic relations in the village . |
| 17 | In Italy 's 1-0 loss to Brazil in their prestige encounter in Bologna , young Baggio rarely looked much better than your Uncle Jimmy in a Sunday park game , let alone like Zico , Maradona et al . |
| 18 | The hallmark of the British response to defects in the working of the labour market became the provision of relief to the unemployed , and not either the creation of special work programmes or measures to facilitate movements of workers between jobs . |
| 19 | Many clashes as popular resistance to apartheid in the townships grows . |
| 20 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | But in light of the German response to events in the Gulf , and to a lesser extent in the Baltic , allied diplomats give this scheme little chance . |
| 22 | First we can offer direct support to businesses in the form of loans , loan guarantees or grants , depending on the needs of the firms . |
| 23 | There were approximately 700 firms offering holidays of some kind to consumers in the United Kingdom in 1986 . |
| 24 | As a result , the dietary exposure to pesticides in infants and children may be very different from that of the general population . |
| 25 | Organised resistance to William in Scotland ceased , though the last clans did not formally submit for another 18 months . |
| 26 | Then the Chancellor 's energetic but careful response to events in the East boosted his flagging popularity . |
| 27 | In this , Britain is in marked contrast to practice in the United States and Canada ( see , e.g. Alatis , Stern & Strevens , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | It 's a marked contrast to Squashtec in Hetton-le-Hole , once a hugely successful club but now facing closure unless a buyer can be found . |
| 29 | Further , public response to works in prominent positions is rarely commented on . |
| 30 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |