Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 2 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 3 | Specific requests refer to a particular aspect of clarification , either a request for repetition , confirmation , or specification . |
| 4 | Friesian bulls cleared to a top of £128 back to £80 . |
| 5 | The opening of East European borders led to a massive influx of those seeking work and political asylum and to the introduction in March 1990 of visa requirements for Romanians , Bulgarians and Turks [ see also p. 37969 ] . |
| 6 | The boldness of Gandhi 's political tactics obscured to a large extent the modesty of his political aspirations , which were very much in line with what moderates , taking their cue from the British , had long set their sights upon : self-government within the empire . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1986 , the legacy of Westland and local-government losses led to a relatively low point for the government . |
| 8 | The series of public meetings came to a climax on the weekend of 30 March with a large protest march , in which anti-nuclear groups participated along with local people , in Lettermacaward . |
| 9 | Thirdly , the king had an indirect but extremely effective way of taxing external trade : only his silver pennies and halfpennies were accepted within the realm , so any foreign coins brought to a port , whether by a homecoming Frankish trader as profit or by a foreign trader to purchase Frankish goods , had to be converted into Charles 's currency . |
| 10 | It is , for example , often assumed that one sector of the community finances social services , while other sectors benefit from it ; that , in effect , social policies contribute to a massive redistribution from rich to poor . |
| 11 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 12 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 13 | In short , ‘ Inntrepreneur ’ rents , as determined by the market , are a fair reflection of the substantial commercial opportunities open to a lessee who is running a pub as an individual business . . |
| 14 | OSI enables all the different manufacturers to work to a common set of standards . |
| 15 | While 45 per cent of German Jews agreed to a return , Arab Jews were 100 per cent opposed . |
| 16 | Measures taken by the authorities against the itinerant traders led to a crisis in the city government , as a result of which the Socialist mayor , Giorgio Morales , was forced to resign . |
| 17 | A FORMIDABLE All Japan High Schools swept to a five game unbeaten tour record in B.C. in March scoring 41 tries to four in the process . |
| 18 | A team of German engineers assigned to a European Community ( EC ) project to repair the town 's water system ( damaged some months earlier ) had left the country on account of the fighting . |
| 19 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 20 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 21 | It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information . |
| 22 | The Australian government has placed 49 per cent of Qantas , worth Pounds 640m , on offer , with foreign investors limited to a 25% holding . |
| 23 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 24 | The combination of the abandonment of overfunding and continued heavy borrowing by central government for on-lending to the local authorities and public corporations led to a move to overall money market surpluses in the later 1980s and a fall in the amount of money market assistance outstanding . |
| 25 | The parlour was a big light room at the back of the house , with French windows leading to a garden . |
| 26 | All cereals , fruits and vegetables contain some dietary fibre , but , just as the calorie content of different foods varies to a great degree , so does the fibre content of different plant foods . |
| 27 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 28 | The different emphases in the different courses leads to a particular problem for institutions with a fully modular structure . |
| 29 | focus ( iv ) : Historical issues relating to a selected text or group of texts : examples The specifically nineteenth-century idea of beauty in the nineteenth-century novel ; developments in the theatre immediately before the English Civil War ; representations of industrial life in early twentieth-century novels . |
| 30 | We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation . |