Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had arrived now in the shape of a wpc who was talking amiably to the protesters who moved back a little apparently in response to her request . |
| 2 | In their view , the District was meeting the criteria set out in Ashby 's Recommendation 6 and in the 1955 regulations quite admirably : was it not entitled to a higher proportion of grant-aid than those whose standards were poorer , whose students ' fees were lower and who were meeting the needs of their areas less successfully in relation to other providing bodies ? |
| 3 | That is not necessarily so in relation to the few surviving companies limited by guarantee and having a share capital.z And there is no inherent reason why it should be so with companies limited by shares ; indeed a very sensible method of promoting voluntary ‘ co-determination ’ would be to provide means whereby employees could become members without also having to buy shares in the company , thus risking the loss of their savings as well as their jobs if their employer-company becomes insolvent . |
| 4 | If such is the case , it would follow that the 500-akce kadilik is a sixteenth-century invention and that in so far as 300- and 500-akce kadiliks have significance in hierarchical terms in the sense that the former ranked below the latter-they do so only in regard to the kadiliks created in the sixteenth century and later . |
| 5 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 6 | But even historical chronology works through discontinuous sets , the elements in each class being defined only differentially in relation to the others in its class . |
| 7 | The poverty statistics are cited as further support for the view that the elderly are becoming better off in relation to the rest of society . |
| 8 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 9 | The theme of instrumentality does not come through so strongly in relation to personal care as it does in other types of support . |
| 10 | In some places locally dominant groups will differ from those dominant nationally , and ‘ such locally constituted groups can then use these local state institutions to further their own interests , perhaps even in opposition to centrally dominant interests ’ ( 1988 , p. 41 ) . |
| 11 | These offered a variety of recreational activities , swimming , sports , dancing and so on in addition to basic victualling , and borrowed from the ordinary pub the opprobium of encouraging immoral behaviour . |
| 12 | He sees exuberant , and perhaps sensual , pleasure in the natural world , of the kind which he once described so lyrically in letters to Arthur Greeves ( there is in fact a letter about bathing in the rain at Parson 's Pleasure ) ; now such stuff seems to him ‘ Nazi ’ . |
| 13 | Indexical meaning , achievable only pragmatically in reference to context , is contrasted with symbolic meaning which inheres in the linguistic sign as a stable semantic property . |
| 14 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |
| 15 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 16 | Unlike modernist works that give the illusion of being autonomous in their surroundings , and which function critically only in relation to the language of their own tradition , site-specific works emphasise the comparison between two separate languages . |
| 17 | In consequence , it was submitted , the relevant action was taken not by the society , the report was not required by the society for its own purposes and was thus not in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance , and a report negligently prepared could not constitute maladministration or a breach of the society 's obligations under any contract . |
| 18 | The photogenic horns are similar to those of some of the White Park herds , though generally longer in proportion to the animal 's size , and also like those of some of the Spanish and criollo breeds . |
| 19 | She was momentarily back in time to when she was about thirteen , staying up to watch the glitter and excitement that the sight of one man had brought , watching every televised re-run as the whole country had gasped and applauded a young Spaniard whose handsome arrogance and amazing equestrian skills had held them enthralled . |
| 20 | If , then , we revise speech as we go along — just prior in fact to the production of the sound stream — the production process in writing is much more complex . |
| 21 | The counts of Kyburg and the royal family of Habsburg figure prominently again in relation to Morsburg castle . |
| 22 | Probably Bevan himself expressed this most eloquently in relation to health care : |
| 23 | Between 1948 and 1991 Parliament passed eight substantive Criminal Justice Acts for England and Wales , one Criminal Law Act which was close enough in content to the specifically criminal justice legislation to be similarly classified , four Scottish Criminal Justice Acts , and several acts dealing with criminal justice administration , international co-operation and minor matters requiring legislation . |
| 24 | But it is sliding ever backwards in relation to the West . |
| 25 | More generally in relation to external dealings , the advantages which the City of London possesses as a major international financial centre were listed by the Wilson Committee : its historical role as centre of the pax Britannica economica ; its geographical position close to Europe and between America and Asia ; the overlap of its working day with those of both Europe and Asia ; political stability ; a high degree of integrity ; a flexible regulatory system ; a concentration of ancillary and cognate services ; and the universality of the English language . |
| 26 | it enables firms to introduce products more quickly in response to competition . |
| 27 | Attitude surveys will make a difference but we need to change more quickly in response to what we hear . ’ |
| 28 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 29 | This kind of worry is expressed more often in relation to the newer modular or semi-modular structures than the more traditional general degree which may have well-established patterns and requirements , but it nevertheless seems to be a widespread one . |
| 30 | John Barrell pursues a similar insight more cautiously in relation to landscape painting and poetry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |