Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Israeli response to deployment of Moslem militias in southern Lebanon |
| 3 | PLANS for a hotel and leisure development at Bodelwyddan Castle are moving ahead , but officials face strong opposition to part of the package . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Associated with this rise to prominence of the social survey method were new modes of theorising about social action and social organisation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There may be promises that it will be paid back in three months , in direct proportion to clearance of outstanding client debts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This amendment to Statement of Standard Accounting Practice No. 15 ‘ Accounting for deferred tax ’ ( SSAP 15 ) arises from the interaction between , on the one hand , SSAP 15 and , on the other hand , SSAP 24 ‘ Accounting for pension costs ' , together with UITF Abstract No. 6 ‘ Accounting for post-retirement benefits other than pensions ' ( UITF 6 ) . |
| 15 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 16 | The MP for Norfolk South West , which she won in 1987 , she was a key member of Mr Major 's leadership team , working under the Chancellor Norman Lamont , and was rewarded for her efforts by being promoted from parliamentary under secretary for Social Security to Minister of State at the Treasury responsible for VAT , Customs and Excise , and harmonisation of EC taxes . |
| 17 | Also moved sideways are Peter Lilley , from DTI to Social Security , Tony Newton from Social Security to Leader of the House of Commons , John MacGregor , from Leader of the House to Transport , and Malcolm Rifkind , from Transport to Defence . |
| 18 | But the important point to note is that the adherence to a theory which Krashen proposes actually precludes the exercise of pragmatic options and the quest for relevance which characterize a theoretical orientation to pedagogy of the kind outlined in this chapter . |
| 19 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 20 | However , the prospect that such a strategy might succeed appeared somewhat remote from the outset given the rather equivocal commitment to freedom of conscience under the convention as a whole ( not least of which is its failure to incorporate a right of conscientious objection to compulsory military service ( Dignan , 1983 ) ) . |
| 21 | Dr Kennedy has sent a letter to Mrs Falconer saying that he does not see what benefit can arise from any further extension to consideration of the matter . ’ |
| 22 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 23 | As a further illustration of an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity in Western thought , we might refer to the mystical approach to nature of the poet Wordsworth , who claims to have felt in nature : |
| 24 | Liz makes the comment about care in the community and the back door to privatization of our care services . |
| 25 | As a result , by 2028 Britain could have the lowest ratio of public spending to GDP of any big economy . |
| 26 | Hence the British government adopted a broader approach to membership of the EC than a basic CU framework would dictate ( British Government White Paper 1971 ) . |
| 27 | Work alongside competent craftsmen together with such short courses is probably the most sensible path to mastery of the various skills . |
| 28 | Continue along this path to edge of reedbeds . |
| 29 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 30 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |