Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 2 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 3 | At the time of the Agadir crisis , he had declared bombastically that it was ‘ high time this insolent clique in Paris should be made once more to feel what a Pomeranian Grenadier can do ’ He edited a book for children , entitled ‘ Germany in Arms ’ , glorifying war , and was fond of speaking to German youth about the forthcoming ‘ happy — cheerful war ’ whatever that meant . |
| 4 | But though the law is the same , the application of it is , no doubt , different with regard to different kinds of plaintiffs . |
| 5 | But though the law is the same , the application of it is , no doubt , different with regard to different kinds of plaintiffs . |
| 6 | In fact , as Table 5.9 indicates , the situation in 1980 was very different in regard to two tasks for which older people often need assistance — shopping and cutting toe-nails . |
| 7 | He says that approximately 50 Belgacom customers , including the nine other experimenters , are interested in moving to electronic billing this year . |
| 8 | ‘ Fame is the most fascinating subject in the world and I 'm keenly interested in speaking to certain people who 've had fame and then lost it . ’ |
| 9 | Check it ; if someone tells you that the Royal Bank , because of the experiences of the recession , is no longer interested in lending to viable businesses — large or small — he 's wrong . |
| 10 | Oh , when I are you still interested in going to these sales ? |
| 11 | A spokesman for Darlington police said : ‘ We would certainly be interested in talking to this bird when it is returned to its rightful owner . ’ |
| 12 | Balance , blend , and intonation are impeccable , enunciation is clear without resorting to tiresome sibilant/hard-consonant spitting , and everything emerges with an inner vitality which has the notes positively leaping off the page . |
| 13 | And no less a light than Sir George Young actually said that the provision of affordable housing is one of the challenges of the nineties , and we are serious about rising to this challenge . |
| 14 | The practical components of such a response are discussed below but one perspective is crucial with regard to organisational structure ; it should reflect the integrity of relationships and be a vehicle for effective management . |
| 15 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 16 | Although only a little more than one-third of the farms grew silage the 820 ha grown was similar in amount to that cut for hay . |
| 17 | He was to combine letters of the Hebrew words of a text into new combinations which , Abulafia said , produced a sensation that was similar to listening to musical harmonies , the alphabet taking the place of notes on a scale . |
| 18 | Because some twin pairs were concordant with regard to inflammatory bowel disease , and rectal biopsy specimens were not available in some diseased twins , biopsy specimens from six healthy twins were unpaired . |
| 19 | It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries . |
| 20 | The study included pairs of twins both concordant and discordant with regard to ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | Serum samples from 26 monozygotic twin pairs concordant or discordant with regard to inflammatory bowel disease , and rectal biopsies from 42 twins of the same subject group , were examined for IgG subclasses . |
| 22 | It seems to me that we are inclining to be very inconsistent in regard to two matters which have recently been very much before us . |
| 23 | A word that is opposite in meaning to another : large — small . |
| 24 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 25 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 26 | Variety trumpeted : ‘ It 's a new ballgame ; the artists and scientists of the world 's cinema center are unhesitant about saying to all the world that there 's to be no hesitation about subject matter . |
| 27 | The business is now confident of selling to other USA customers , using the Vermont breakthrough as a springboard . |
| 28 | It took as its theme part of the statement made by the Labour and Socialist International with regard to national United Fronts : Past experience goes to show that such negotiations in individual countries may unfortunately only too easily be turned into manoeuvres by the Communists , with the result that they help to poison the situation and increase the mistrust in the Labour Movement instead of diminishing it . |
| 29 | It is most helpful with regard to such precognitions to state the full name , address and , if relevant , telephone number of the witness in question , together with intimation of the date on which the particular statement was obtained . |
| 30 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |