Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It generates packagable RNA transcripts which are encapsidated into recombinant MoMLV particles and transfer G418 resistance to infected target cells .
2 I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out .
3 And so it tends to be worse in the early hours of the morning and you can have another blip in the sort of er middle to late afternoon as well .
4 Well if I could just read read that , a well planned strategy for hou for land , for hous , sorry a well planned strategy for land for housing which ensures that housing is available in the areas where jobs are being being created can make a valuable contri contribution to national prosperity and economic growth , so I say I do n't think we would have that erm valuable contribution if the new settlement were located away from Greater York .
5 But he saw natural selection as less important than the Lamarckian mechanism in which self-improvements resulting from the individual 's response to environmental challenge are inherited and thus accumulate to change the species .
6 The GDR 's response to Soviet oil cuts was to increase lignite production and coal refining .
7 Spain 's response to economic crisis was dominated by the transition from an authoritarian regime to a liberal parliamentary democracy .
8 ( For another example of the law 's response to new technology , see Chapter 6 , p. 170 . )
9 17.70 The teacher 's response to written work should aim to foster a child 's confidence in the exploration of ideas and the manner of their presentation .
10 To the interplay of character in its amusing aspects O'Brian adds a sense of the ridiculous which often relaxes tension and sharpens the reader 's response to intricate action .
11 If being monitored for exposure to external penetrating radiation can be a marker of other exposures in the workplace , some of which might be hazardous , studies of the relation between men 's exposure to external radiation and leukaemia in their children could yield apparently inconsistent results .
12 AFTER a week 's exposure to American television 's sports coverage it was a relief to watch television at home .
13 The only person likely to be seriously annoyed by Miss Bandaranaike 's rise to local power is her brother , Anura , the party 's national organiser .
14 An individual 's entitlement to social security benefit , including whether or not he or she receives benefit , is confidential information .
15 It was argued on behalf of the plaintiff that : ( a ) the proviso quoted above constituted an unlawful restraint of trade ; ( b ) the proviso was severable and might be struck out of the contract without affecting the remainder ; ( c ) the plaintiff 's entitlement to post-determination commission accordingly continued notwithstanding his admitted breach of clause 9A .
16 China seriously escalated the dispute on Nov. 30 when it threatened to cancel , on Hong Kong 's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 , all commercial contracts , leases and agreements between the Hong Kong government and the private sector signed without full Chinese approval .
17 He went on to justify the ANC 's resort to armed struggle in 1960 , describing it as " a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid " , and declared : " The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today .
18 She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher .
19 She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure .
20 TRIBUTES to the late Alexander Dubcek , symbol of Czechoslovakia 's resistance to Soviet military might , poured in from leaders across the world yesterday after his death on Saturday .
21 In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas 's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident .
22 Chamberlain split from the Liberal party largely on the issue of Irish Home Rule , which he opposed , but also due to impatience with Gladstone 's resistance to social reform .
23 Furthermore , national liberation could only be supported if it took place in a revolutionary way ( as Marx had argued on Germany and therefore gone on to oppose Bismarck 's route to German unity ) , not leaving ‘ intact the foundations of the power of the ruling class ’ .
24 The ACT may be offset against the company 's liability to mainstream corporation tax in the usual way .
25 And a full day 's trek to neighbouring Grindelwald or Murren is a must .
26 He examines their various kinds of failure in reading , arising from the reader 's susceptibility to personal fantasy , dominance by dogma , over-literalness , careless construing , and so on .
27 Thus , the cytokinetic status of the epithelium could reflect a subject 's susceptibility to colorectal neoplasia .
28 This check is mounted on the key , which follows the rule of the transformation from Cristofori 's action to Viennese action .
29 In this , as in the Institute 's opposition to uneconomic fee scales , the battle has been fraught over the protection of architectural quality .
30 Clearly , he realised that he must uphold the papacy even in the light of Hadrian 's opposition to imperial equality .
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