Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 2 | The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers . |
| 3 | It is impossible to gauge whether Zealot activity originated from a single headquarters , or whether it consisted of a multitude of groups operating independently . |
| 4 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 5 | Not all of it could be joined together prior to delivery as size precluded it from being transported in one piece . |
| 6 | So the material spread into all Asian schools and , after modification , into selected African ones ( the New Peak ) ; from towns where supervision was easy and teachers well-trained to country where supervision was infrequent and teachers far less well-grounded . |
| 7 | SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 8 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 9 | Some workers have found this state of affairs to be as disturbing to development as divorce ; and in research some years ago into family aspects of drug dependence . |
| 10 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 11 | Mildew is destructive to cotton whereas nylon looks stained and smells a bit but the fabric remains intact . |
| 12 | Sir Robin Day : an interviewer more susceptible to flattery than battery |
| 13 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 14 | In the hareem , prayer is as necessary to life as air to breathing , but in Ramadan it reaches to that depth of spirit where the inexplicable lies . |
| 15 | He remarks to his son that unhappiness is just as necessary to mankind as happiness — one of those cherished convictions of Dostoevsky that get slipped in when our attention is elsewhere . |
| 16 | Secondly , we need outcome measures for assessing new implants that are more sensitive to failure than revision . |