Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile , Clarify Inc , San Jose , California , pocketed $5.4m in its second round of financing , bringing total investment to date to $8.9m , considerably more than other like-minded start-ups like ProActive Software Inc , Scopus Technology Inc , Aurum Software Inc , Quintus and Lysis Inc , Atlanta , Georgia , have to play with . |
| 2 | Extra-parliamentary agitation began to shift from the unemployed movement to opposition to fascism , despite the fact that the unemployed demonstrations continued to attract popular attention . |
| 3 | Europe 's regional economic development programme has been designated objective to status to Plymouth . |
| 4 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 5 | The great issue of British opposition politics in the next few years may revolve around this question : is the principal alternative to Conservatism to be a form of consumerism , which might unite many in both principal opposition groupings ? |
| 6 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 7 | And that left the reigning title-holder to coast to the line 40 seconds clear of Mansell — but 58 points adrift after 11 rounds . |
| 8 | This was the most obvious demonstration to date to the American public of actual co-operation by the two countries . |
| 9 | Finally , good wishes for a quick return to health to Audrey Foster , Hilda Lodge and Doris Patten , who have all been in hospital . |
| 10 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 11 | ‘ Compare the estimate of less than one man-year effort to port using your toolkit to the 30 man-year effort to port to Windows . |
| 12 | It would seem however that the costs hit small financial firms far harder than larger ones , and may create a powerful barrier to entry to new firms . |
| 13 | In most tissues a major contribution to cell to cell adhesion is made by calcium dependent cell adhesion molecules known as cadherins . |
| 14 | Parker was applying Herbert Spencer 's law of social evolution and the current devotion to organization to the denomination . |
| 15 | But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease . |
| 16 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 17 | Holland also accepts in retrospect that the left damaged its prospects in this regard by hitching its industrial policy to opposition to the EEC , so that the pro-EEC verdict of the 1975 referendum reduced the credibility of the left generally . |
| 18 | Question : When you put that cup to tea to your lips did you think — that 's an award winner ? |
| 19 | We do well to remember that societal opposition to cruelty to animals , especially opposition that has the force of law , is a comparatively recent development . |
| 20 | Peter Reid , the factor on Kildalton Estate ( 36 ) , in part of his statement said " I do n't suppose it is of any consequence to advert to the question of how people were removed , but I do n't think we can admit that there were any evictions , and I think there is no need , unless it is wished , to call forward witnesses to show that there were no evictions , at least in the ordinary sense of the word . " |
| 21 | While quartz gives grey and white interference colours , the bright colours of Plate 6.1b are produced by an amphibole mineral ( pale colour to yellow to red ) and the black and white stripey pattern by the feldspar mineral plagioclase . |
| 22 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 23 | NATIONAL Savings products contributed a further £219 million to Government funding in January , bringing the total contribution for the financial year to date to nearly £4 billion . |
| 24 | Happily Mr White soon abandons this sort of yuk and reveals much that is interesting in Hawking 's life at Cambridge and later abroad ; his progress from stick to crutches to wheelchair to electric car , from whispered speech to tracheotomy to a computerised voice machine ; the problems of finding suitable accommodation , exacerbated by an unhelpful bursar ; the birth of his three children ; difficulties with his wife Jane , to whom he owed so much , and their eventual separation ; his love of dancing and dinner parties , and always his stubborn courage in refusing to regard himself or allow others to regard him as anything but normal . |
| 25 | In the most positive response to date to South Korean calls for an inter-Korean summit meeting , a North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister , Kang SokChu told reporters in New York on Sept. 17 that President Kim Il Sung hoped to hold such a summit with President Roh Tae Woo , now that the two countries had been admitted to the UN and " recognized as legitimate governments by the international community " . |
| 26 | Univel looks to be backing off its original commitment to port to non-Intel platforms like Sparc . |
| 27 | a modular approach to preparation to practice . |