Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance .
2 For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit-linked policies to the with-profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time .
3 Central Council would like to record its grateful thanks to the members of the Medical and Legal Panels .
4 Various groups act as social as well as literal gatekeepers to the rewards which rural England has to offer , and visitors are allowed through only on a selective basis .
5 The contours of one 's outer ears are therefore able to contribute their subtle characteristics to the sounds as in direct hearing .
6 As my thesis is broadly supportive of small rural schools , I shall attempt to offer possible solutions to the disadvantages , despite the fact that they must be related to implicit value judgements .
7 They may even come up with possible solutions to the problems faced that will be equally attributable to their own situation , although they may be quite unaware of this until their attention is drawn to it .
8 We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ?
9 The issue of the document should not be taken to imply any commitment of any kind has been made to pursue possible solutions to the requirements described .
10 All we would do is transfer people from rural districts to the ranks of the unemployed in urban ones .
11 Information Systems Development Methodologies : Practical and innovative solutions to the problems associated with modern Information System methodologies and Computer Aided System Engineering ( CASE ) tools ; Framework for the evaluation , comparison and selection of Information System development methodologies/CASE tools ; Design and development of an object-oriented systems development methodology ; Intelligent analyst workbench migration mechanisms .
12 However they were always odd cars to the crews and the maintenance men , who had become accustomed to English Electric equipment , and were not particularly well-liked .
13 It is also important to establish what kinds of operation will have to be done at each stage , in case there is any question of allocating some operations to the keyboarders or indeed to built-in automatic systems .
14 so no wonder the horse starts favourite with 12 wins to the bikers one … what about the runners can they ever beat the horse …
15 Nevertheless , it must be supposed that there were economic as well as social inducements to the policies of expansion beyond the West Frankish frontiers pursued by the dukes of Normandy , Aquitaine , and even Burgundy , as well as by the counts of Toulouse , Flanders , and for brief periods Blois and Anjou .
16 The judicial reforms which he introduced in 1781 revived a number of harsh punishments which his mother 's law-code of 1769 had abolished , such as the branding of life-prisoners on the forehead and the chaining of some prisoners to the walls of their cells .
17 The same applied to the country services operated by ‘ East Surrey ’ , who had a service from Croydon , passing through Carshalton and Sutton , but followed different roads to the trams ( largely those rejected by the 1902 Act ) .
18 The purpose of this change is to permit SRO 's ( and RPB 's ) greater flexibility in tailoring detailed rules to the requirements of the areas of business which relate to their members .
19 That fact made nonsense of the description ‘ quota hoppers ’ applied by the British authorities to the applicants ' vessels and accentuated the breach of their rights under those provisions of the Act of Accession 1985 .
20 He met his promise to reduce Federal government activity by transferring responsibility for many welfare and social programmes to the states and the cities .
21 The first region includes the only direct contacts to the bases , made by side chains of the β -strands lying in the major groove ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) .
22 One way of achieving lies through the marriage of the old and new , for Lord Vieuxbois marries Lord Minchampstead 's daughter , thus symbolizing a synthesis of their different attitudes to the responsibilities of a great estate .
23 The resistance of British savers to the charms of UK equities is a source of continuing frustration to the Conservative Party , the retail broking industry and pressure groups advocating wider share ownership .
24 Darlington Brown Trout 's Baker Trout Cup attracted 53 contenders to the banks of the Tees last Sunday .
25 There will be a guarantee of £48,750 from public funds to the initiators of buy-outs if they do not succeed .
26 Immediately before the conference Germany had expressed reluctance to commit further funds to the projects because of the costs of German unification .
27 Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries .
28 There are other interesting aspects to the cells of mule and hinny , for example the question of sex determination .
29 Stephen left parliament disillusioned ; virtually all the colonies passed legislation by 1820 , and although it was unsatisfactory in some respects to the reformers they were constrained by the existence of the legislation .
30 Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones .
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