Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would have been a devastating blow to morale in that summer , when everyone was on hair-trigger invasion alert . ’ |
| 7 | It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available . |
| 8 | The acute response to nicotine in these chronically treated rats was a significant decrease in gastric secretion . |
| 9 | inherent liability to wastage in bulk or weight , latent defect or inherent defect , vice or natural deterioration of the goods ; |
| 10 | inherent liability to wastage in bulk , or weight , latent defect or inherent defect vice or natural deterioration of the merchandise |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As a matter of common courtesy , for example , a teacher would avoid giving private coaching to child in a colleague 's class . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Many clashes as popular resistance to apartheid in the townships grows . |
| 15 | In this , Britain is in marked contrast to practice in the United States and Canada ( see , e.g. Alatis , Stern & Strevens , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact , the two trials that directly compared intravenous heparin with no heparin as adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis in the absence of aspirin give contradictory results . |
| 18 | Whether the courts would extend this remedy to information in documents which were accidentally released as opposed to surrepticiously obtained was answered in English and American Insurance Co Ltd v Herbert Smith [ 1988 ] FSR 232 . |
| 19 | He argued that Scotland has ‘ psychologically ’ moved over a watershed from belief in the public sector to belief in the private sector , although there were still too many public institutions , mainly local authorities , who thought in public ownership terms . |
| 20 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 21 | The evidence before our eyes is her faultless attention to detail in these exquisite flower decorations . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev began this week to inch in that direction . |
| 23 | In making it Curtis helped to unleash a force which before long would profoundly challenge the British claim to dominion in India . |
| 24 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 25 | A walk around the PAS warehouses is like a trip back in time , with all the parts stored floor to ceiling in tea chests — quite apart from all the aircraft spares this must be one of the largest gatherings of tea chests in the world ! |
| 26 | Rustin ( 1985 ) notes that Scruton places undue emphasis on the referential approach to language in semiotics , ignoring the equally powerful structuralist component ( see Sperber 1975 for a parallel comment on anthropology ) . |
| 27 | The trial of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in the doorway of his home has been put back until later in the week . |
| 28 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 29 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 30 | Council was able to report a small ‘ trading profit ’ this year to Court in December . |