Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the reality was , and always had been , very different the intention was to design and teach courses of study as a preliminary to an even more specialized university undergraduate course . |
| 2 | Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach . |
| 3 | The maximum temperature , nine degrees Celsius that 's forty eight degrees Fahrenheit with a light to moderate easterly wind . |
| 4 | By interviewing a subsample of women from the original study it will be possible to plot the stability of self-esteem over a 7 to 8 year period and its relationship to changing social circumstances . |
| 5 | In other words the worker in these situations might leave a colleague within hearing distance while conducting an interview on a one to one basis as opposed to being accompanied throughout the interview . |
| 6 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 7 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 8 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 9 | This cofactor is required for lipase activity in the presence of bile salts above the critical micelle concentration and acts by anchoring lipase in a one to one molar ratio to the bile salt emulsified triglyceride substrate . |
| 10 | Unger 's view is confirmed by the transformation of divorce from a judicial to an administrative process . |
| 11 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 12 | The key feature of all models of hysteresis is obviously present in the insider-outsider model : it is only during the process of adjustment from a higher to a lower level of employment that there will be significant downward pressure on the rate of increase of money wages and prices . |
| 13 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 14 | If you do such exercises fast and you repeat them , and manage to become breathless in the process for a twenty to thirty-minute period , you have combined your suppleness exercise with stamina exercise . |
| 15 | Acid secretion showed a satisfactory response to pentagastrin in each group with a two to threefold rise over basal values . |
| 16 | It was thought necessary to have such authoritarian power and to combine legislative and executive functions in one person to implement economic reforms — the shift from a planned to a market economy — as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | To put all this another way , Chicago represented for its sociologists an ideal case study area in which to test the grand theories of sociology ; the changing social relations resulting from a shift from a pre-industrial to an industrial society , the effects this had on the individual and what Goffman was later to call the ‘ moral careers ’ of people as they managed ( or indeed failed to manage ) with the circumstances and institutions in which they were caught up . |
| 18 | Illustration 2 : Industrialisation , moral careers and the move from a peripheral to a central region |
| 19 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 20 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 21 | The implementation of TAURUS ( Transfer and Automated Registration of Uncertified Stock ) is a computerised share settlement system that should initially be in place for October 1991 , with ‘ rolling settlement ’ ( a change from the traditional two week account period to a three to five day rolling system ) by October 1992 . |
| 22 | This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried . |
| 23 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 24 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 25 | Like all Mbuna these fish require very pure , well aerated water with a moderate to high level of hardness and a moderately alkaline pH ( 7.5–8.5 ) . |
| 26 | They think they will stay on top with a 20 to 30-seat lead . |
| 27 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 28 | During this century the time available for leisure ( defined as time spent not at work ) has increased significantly due to long annual holidays and a change from a six-day to a five-day working week . |
| 29 | The biggest advance was the change from a permanent to a replaceable battery , which resulted in the ferret collar-transmitter as we now know it . |
| 30 | But over the years , the government did little except to remove contaminated soil , even though the trail of dioxin was showing contamination from a few to a several hundred PPB . |