Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales took victory in the men 's match by 72-65 , but Scotland ran out overall winners by 148-115 thanks to a comfortable women 's victory . |
| 2 | Advanced course units would then be taken , with a combination of twelve of them in one subject area leading to an honours degree , twelve in two subjects to a joint honours , and various other ‘ less demanding combinations ’ to ordinary degrees : |
| 3 | The department was changed from Social Studies to a full Humanities department teaching ‘ O ’ Level and CSE in History , Geography and Social Studies . |
| 4 | Mr Heath 's U-turn in 1972 , shifting from free-market policies to a statutory prices and incomes policy and state intervention in industry , is a negative example for her . |
| 5 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 6 | This sympathetic , welfare-orientated role was illustrated well when the fieldworker accompanied two neighbourhood men to a local children 's home . |
| 7 | Soviet and United States arms control negotiators resumed talks in Washington on Jan. 21 aimed at clearing obstacles to a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on cutting long-range nuclear arsenals by 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Thus , objections to a full-blown systems theory such as Waltz 's come both from those who think of the state as a rational closed unit and from those who think that its internal organization matters . |
| 9 | Hence , Herring et al. ( 1988 ) described the design of SQL extensions to a new object-oriented GIS ; Abel ( 1988 ) has reported work on the creation of SQL-based spatial extensions to a relational database in the ‘ Spatial Information in a Relational Open-architecture database management system ’ ( SIRO-DBMS ) project ; and Ingram and Phillips ( 1988 ) have designed spatial extensions to a hybrid GIS data model . |