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

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31 The small number of women involved in white water paddling , she feels , is due to a women 's attitude to fear and taking risks rather than any negative feelings from male paddlers .
32 ‘ My Lady , ’ Cranston retorted , ‘ I would feel better — ’ he raised his voice to a bellow' — I would feel better if I got some custom , and the attention due to a King 's officer ! ’
33 Due to a translator 's error , the new PAUL WELLER album is being advertised as ‘ Usual Old Jazzy Bollocks ’ in Japan .
34 It necessitates active asset/liability management due to a bank 's exposure to currency fluctuations and volatile interest rates .
35 However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC .
36 Our hands are always more receptive to a person 's aura if we have just massaged that person .
37 Some proposals for block contracts ( DoH 1989f ) at first sight do appear to be population based , eg ‘ the DHA might , for example , require a specified number of beds to be available to a DHA 's residents whenever required for a defined area of treatment together with the appropriate facilities for treatment ’ , but this does not indicate who is responsible when these beds are all occupied and more ( emergency ) cases arrive .
38 These two limbs are essential to a candidate 's training and he ought not to become a corporate member until he satisfies both requirements . ’
39 In addition to calcium , Calcia supplies those other minerals and vitamins essential to a woman 's health , including iron and vitamin D.
40 Contrary to a lawyer 's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues .
41 We are able to arrange all types of insurance , tailor-made to a client 's specific requirements .
42 The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises .
43 Hungry as we are today for the luxury of authenticity and for visual elegance , we find that the Potter 's work makes enticing reading : " How delicious to a schoolboy 's healthy appetite sixty years ago , was a potted meat at breakfast in my grandmother 's old Wiltshire home .
44 In his guidebook , The Frantic Atlantic , published in 1927 , Basil Woon strongly advised that the dinner jacket was vital to a gentleman 's chances .
45 The total for 1990 was expected to be close to a record EC$100,000,000 .
46 Big sauropods , for example , show painfully slow speeds of about 4 kph , equivalent to a human 's strolling gait .
47 A clear spatial identity is necessary to a region 's existence .
48 Through its link with the British Overseas Trade Board IDB 's Market Information Enquiry Service can provide specific market research , relevant to a company 's products , for any country in the World .
49 When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change .
50 What 's excessive or disgusting to a vicar 's wife may be the height of pleasure to a pop star 's .
51 5.21 Sale of reversion etc To permit [ upon reasonable notice ] at any time during the Term prospective purchasers of or agents instructed in connection with the sale of the Landlord 's reversion or of any other interest superior to the Term to view the Premises without interruption provided they are authorised in writing by the Landlord or its agents This is a normal provision and the only comment to make is that it could be disruptive to a tenant 's business , although one would hope that the frequency of a sale of the reversion would be limited .
52 A list thus compiled will derive from choices more intelligently made and more efficiently expressed than any that could emerge from a primary ; and if in recording regional judgements it should not be entirely pleasing to a party 's national headquarters , so much , most provincials would say , the better .
53 The Children Act demands service providers are sensitive to a child 's race and culture while the NHS and Community care Act says local authorities must take the needs of black and minority ethnic groups into account when producing community care plans .
54 The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves .
55 We are sensitive to a business 's overall financial needs and so can integrate pensions and insurance into them .
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