Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
2 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
3 | The government attributes this to the improvements in efficiency achieved during the course of the country 's intensive reactor building programme . |
4 | Chemists initially make polyacetylene in the cis form , and convert this to the trans by heating it to 200°C in helium . |
5 | The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided . |
6 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
7 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
8 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
9 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
10 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
11 | Applying this to the realities of international law , the ethical positivist in the first place rejects the search for an intuited or reasoned ‘ natural law ’ on which to base international law , for he views law as a human creation to serve those human objectives which survive ethical criticism . |
12 | The procedures of public decision-making , therefore , may be more cautious than in the private sector , and more prone to the excesses of paper record-keeping in case the decision needs to be defended at a later date . |
13 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
14 | In theory the system was efficient and just ; in practice it was prone to the limitations of travel , seasons , and the possibility of corruption , which was inevitable in such an extended empire . |
15 | Planted at an altitude of between 100 and 200 metres , the higher situated vines are less prone to the dangers of frost and provide well-structured , fruity wines . |
16 | While in times of war its uneasy location between the Frankish and German kingdoms rendered it prone to the ravages of invading armies , in times of peace , it was ideally situated at the crossroads to the great trade centres of Europe . |
17 | And the forty-three forces in England and Wales now contain some formidable units , amalgamated out of the small borough , city , and county forces of the pre-1960s , many of which were prone to the whims of corrupt local politicians ( Simey 1988 ) . |
18 | Since then , Soviet dominance has appeared that much more stark and anomalous to the peoples of Eastern Europe . |
19 | Gandhi is faithful to the traditions of Hinduism when he affirms the isomorphism of Truth ( Satya ) and Reality ( Sat ) . |
20 | Manea Manescu , who counted as the intellectual of the group , tried to explain how ‘ the road to hell is paved with good intentions ’ , but , despite all the difficulties of his position , he had remained ‘ faithful to the principles of his youth ’ . |
21 | Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism . |
22 | Although the provinces round Petrograd and Moscow and on the Upper Volga recovered fast economically and were probably better treated , since they had stayed faithful to the Bolsheviks from 1917 , they were relatively unimportant as agricultural producers . |
23 | Again , if we are faithful to the terms of the story , we will refrain from any attempt to provide rational explanations of these events . |
24 | That His Majesty , understanding that the Forest Laws are grievous to the Subjects of this Kingdom … out of his Grace and Goodness to his people , is willing to lay down all the new Bounds of his Forests … reduced to the same Condition as they were before the late justices Seat held . |
25 | The reasons for the centre 's heed fur taxes like the prodnalog and many others had not been made clear to the villagers by the party cell . |
26 | Tenderly responsive to the self-deceptions of others , he was unfortunately too well able to understand his own . |
27 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
28 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
29 | It is why I believe the Labour Party must be bold in demonstrating our commitment to enhance and extend individual freedom by building a society which is dynamic and responsive to the aspirations of all our people . |
30 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |