Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 2 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 3 | Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ? |
| 4 | The Dunbars have observed only a few such fights to completion but the outcome is quite remarkable . |
| 5 | as if the fancy and unnecessary packaging which manufacturers use for Christmas gifts is not enough , we then destroy a few more forests to encase them in acres and acres of wrapping paper . |
| 6 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 7 | But the past , not the future , now claimed him : on this same trip to New York , he told William Turner Levy that he had dreamed of his family as it had been when he was a small child . |
| 8 | It was later revealed that this was the 15th such shipment to Israel since October 1990 ( the majority of which had been made under BND auspices ) . |
| 9 | ITALY yesterday announced a $1.5bn ( £935m ) issue of fixed-rate Eurobonds , the largest such deal to date . |
| 10 | It was in fact their ninth annual such visit to Springfields and the party also took in Sellafield . |
| 11 | They helped to bring six more people to safety in the town of Ballycastle . |
| 12 | It 's only six more days to pay-off at Placerco and you 're nowhere near up to strength . |
| 13 | However , of much more concern to Blythen Jenkins , head of corporate affairs with the IoD , is the tendency ‘ in all legislation where the liability of the company is involved , such as environmental or consumer protection , to have a little paragraph in it saying liability shall be assumed by the directors and officers of the company ’ . |
| 14 | erm plastic erm , er the new plastics erm always give much more scope to lighting fittings , erm than the , the glass in the past but erm |
| 15 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 16 | Of much more interest to Alp-watchers is the performance of the other great Alpine skiing nations . |
| 17 | I include due process as a separate virtue because I do not believe it collapses into either of the others as I describe these , but my arguments in this and the following chapters will pay much more attention to fairness and justice , and I shall mainly ignore procedural due process . ) |
| 18 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
| 19 | ABC TV wanted Newman to bring these same qualities to England , and offered him a post in control of their series Armchair Theatre . |
| 20 | Has it not occurred to the Government and the nation , therefore , that the excessive consumption of alcohol also incurs these same costs to health and the NHS . |
| 21 | Hybridization of these same probes to lung sections from untransfected animals served as a negative control against nonspecific hybridization ; neither the human CFTR probe ( g-i ) nor the hisD probe ( j-l ) hybridized to any mRNAs in the lungs of untransfected mice . |
| 22 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
| 23 | all that standing to attention |
| 24 | To force increased employment costs on such firms , as we do when we add all that baggage to employees , is likely to drive them nearer to the margin , nearer to closing down . |
| 25 | What , then , brought Edward Balliol all this way to Roxburgh ? |
| 26 | Got all this stuff to type up and I 'd forgotten my typewriter . |
| 27 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 28 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 29 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 30 | In the exercise of that power , the Secretary of State has transferred many such functions to Securities and Investments Board Ltd . |