Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are accidents that did not involve personal injury but involved er physical damage to walls , cars , gates , driveways etc. , with cars coming down the road . |
| 2 | Paykel separates these from the person 's specific vulnerability to events , or to particular events , which has developed from personality attributes or developmental experiences . |
| 3 | Gandhi 's tolerant attitude to religions , which will be dealt with in the following chapter , is an indication that he does not consider any religion to have a monopoly of Truth and that includes Hinduism . |
| 4 | Major 's hollow promise to councils |
| 5 | This is the second time in less than two weeks that the Government have failed to respond to the Prime Minister 's so-called commitment to women 's equality . |
| 6 | Cutting Russia 's remaining lending to CIS republics is politically easier than bankrupting Russian factories . |
| 7 | Women 's limited access to employers ' pension benefits are directly related to the traditional domestic division of labour which assigns the ‘ breadwinner ’ role to men , principally husbands , and the major responsibility for the unpaid work of the home ( especially child care ) to women . |
| 8 | How might one design a pharmacological approach to confer preconditioning 's anti-infarct effect to patients ? |
| 9 | The losses of ( £440,000 ) four hundred and forty thousand pounds are revealed in the club 's annual report to shareholders . |
| 10 | The central exhibit is a bright pink , skeletal temple in which the Prince 's central advice to architects is enshrined . |
| 11 | It is fiscal changes , however , which reveal women 's double burden of second-class work status and family obligations and dramatise the government 's contradictory attitude to women : since April 1990 , married men and women have been separately taxed ; but this is a phantom recognition of women because the married couple 's new allowance is given to the husband . |
| 12 | As part of the Minister 's continued opposition to settlements , can he say how the British Government , as a member of the troika , will discharge their responsibilities under the recent protocol signed with Israel and the European Economic Community to ensure that none of the money will go to any Israeli projects with any connection with settlements on the west bank or Gaza ? |
| 13 | In circumstances in which women 's primary commitment to men can no longer be guaranteed , the attack on ‘ extremists ’ , and especially lesbians , within the women 's movement has increased . |
| 14 | Since when the circuit is totally rejecting a signal , application of Kirchhoff 's current law to nodes A and B reveals that total rejection occurs when the simultaneous equations are satisfied . |
| 15 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 16 | Taking data on all full-time manual workers , figure 10.2 shows that the ratio of women 's hourly pay to men 's suddenly rose in the mid-1970s from the level it seems to have previously held over recorded history , 60 per cent , to over 70 per cent in 1977 , a level more or less maintained subsequently . |
| 17 | It is possible , however , that Berkeley 's evident sensitivity to charges of scepticism is rooted not simply in his cherished hope that they are false , but also in some dim feeling that they are not completely unjust . |
| 18 | The Trust 's initial appeal to members raised £31,000 . |
| 19 | Labour 's o Labour 's open hostility to employers will do little for business confidence and job creation . |
| 20 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 21 | For Jesus is God 's final word to men ; and the Spirit illuminates and interprets but does not add to that word . |
| 22 | The most positive step has been Steve Barwick 's final conversion to offcutters , very much in the style of his mentor Don Shepherd . |
| 23 | The development of the Somerset AEC both accords with and constitutes a practical example of the Home Office 's recent guidance to sentencers : |
| 24 | After his talks with Li , Maude said that he had been " encouraged " by the Chinese administration 's muted attitude to issues of contention between the UK and China , including the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill which provided for full British citizenship to be given to some 225,000 Hong Kong citizens . |
| 25 | Despite Karajan 's meteoric ascent to positions of power and influence after Furtwängler 's death in 1954 and Böhm 's dismission from Vienna some months later , it is clear that Karajan 's ultimate aim was not power but independence : hence the contract for life with the Berlin Philharmonic , hence the founding in 1967 of the Salzburg Easter Festival , brilliantly engineered and financed by Karajan after his return to influence in Salzburg and his eight-year reign at the Vienna State Opera . |
| 26 | Based on a formula devised by each LEA , LMS delegates the school 's financial budget to governors . |
| 27 | MR TRISTAN Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , last night repeated the Government 's implacable opposition to plans of M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , to raise the EC 's budget by 30 per cent over the next five years — a plan which would cost British taxpayers at least one billion pounds extra per year , writes Boris Johnson , EC Correspondent , in Luxembourg . |
| 28 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |
| 29 | Mr Delors ' upbeat report to MEPs on the Strasbourg summit was also reflected by the French Foreign Minister , Mr Roland Dumas , in giving his end-of-term report on the French presidency of the European Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | and these people are erm unpaid helpers to Ministers and Secretaries of State it says here . |