Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ITALY yesterday announced a $1.5bn ( £935m ) issue of fixed-rate Eurobonds , the largest such deal to date . |
| 6 | It was in fact their ninth annual such visit to Springfields and the party also took in Sellafield . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of much more interest to Alp-watchers is the performance of the other great Alpine skiing nations . |
| 11 | 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 . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | all that standing to attention |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What , then , brought Edward Balliol all this way to Roxburgh ? |
| 16 | Got all this stuff to type up and I 'd forgotten my typewriter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 21 | Export-led growth will — if it works — be boosted by a tariff-cutting programme due to start in June ; after Brazil and Argentina began gingerly reducing their tariffs in 1987 , trade between them increased from $1.35 billion that year to $2 billion in 1990 . |
| 22 | Public sector borrowing requirement is forecast to rise from £37 billion this year to £44 billion next year . |
| 23 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 24 | To have made one such contribution to mankind would have been remarkable , but to have also contributed greatly to the early understanding of electricity , is outstanding . |
| 25 | One such letter to Theo , dated 10th . |
| 26 | On Aug. 7 Enoch Kavindele had withdrawn his candidature , the first such challenge to Kaunda ; he had said that he wanted to breathe new life into the party , but had little visible support among delegates at the congress . |
| 27 | A diametrically different view came from a trades-union leader , Mr Lee Chuk-Yan , who said : ‘ This whole thing of right of abode gives one more choice to people who already have lots of choices . |
| 28 | If represents marginal congestion costs of adding one more person to region , then a welfare maximum requires that |
| 29 | Historically , the behaviour of the students in the five or so years starting in 1969 can be seen as one more blow to education , one more reason for the public to begin to demand that they should have more control over the educational system . |
| 30 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |