Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 2 | By uncovering the contribution made by ‘ serious ’ religion to the wider Ulster society by c1900 this study will make more comprehensible many neglected aspects of life and custom in the twentieth-century Ulster . |
| 3 | Balfour , directed by the pistol 's point , moved with speed but dignity from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office . |
| 4 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 5 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 6 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 7 | The debt which never appears in any balance sheet or account is that owed by the Association to the fund-raising efforts of its supporters and the generosity of the public . |
| 8 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 9 | The mechanism of action of the ASFV protein similar to the eukaryotic TFIIS and to the vaccinia virus protein rpo30 could shed light on this matter , considering that the eukaryotic protein is an RNA polymerase-associated transcription factor , while rpo30 is considered a true enzyme subunit due to its tight association to the viral enzyme ( 10 ) . |
| 10 | Here Gabriel said to the eldest brother , " Because of your kindness to the poor traveller , you can make any wish and it will be granted . " |
| 11 | ‘ I see , ’ Craig said in amusement , ‘ so your kindness to the young lady was n't entirely for my benefit . ’ |
| 12 | Miss Lowe remembers her kindness to the smaller children , her love of animals and general helpfulness but not her academic potential . |
| 13 | His kindness to the old lady had been completely disinterested . |
| 14 | She twisted her head to catch the coroner 's eye as he scowled across at the innkeeper who was busy gossiping to the other customers around the great wine barrels . |
| 15 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 16 | The senate is the opposition 's counterweight to the new president . |
| 17 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 18 | But although nurses had acquired heightened managerial opportunities they were ill-equipped by tradition or training to take advantage of them and often simply managerially incompetent ( Strong and Robinson 1990 ) , an ineffective counterweight to the medical members . |
| 19 | A small girl , acting on instructions from her parents , approaches the old couple 's table and with a shy smile offers one end of a Christmas cracker to the old man , who snatches it from her grasp and stuffs it into his pocket . |
| 20 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 21 | The practice has robbed Scottish rivers of much of its spawning stock to the great detriment of the whole Scottish economy |
| 22 | This practice has robbed your rivers of much of its spawning stock to the great detriment of the whole Scottish economy , for wild salmon bring money into the country in many ways and provide direct and indirect employment for many through anglers who fish for them in your rivers . |
| 23 | In the case of securities we may use the capital asset pricing model developed in Chapter 5 , where the expected return on security i , ( E(ri) ) is determined by multiplying the security 's beta coefficient by the market risk premium and adding the result to the risk-free rate of interest . |
| 24 | When the coprocessor has finished its ' task it passes the result to the main processor . |
| 25 | Turn the facing to the wrong side and press . |
| 26 | The nadir of transient UOS relaxation swas the most clearcut point and so was related to the time of onset of the common cavity episode to the nearest second . |
| 27 | The Policyholder must report any loss of a card to the issuing authority and the police WITHIN 24 HOURS OF DISCOVERY OF THE LOSS . |
| 28 | Complete the coupon on the right and send it together with your personal game card to The best Quest Lucky Draw . |
| 29 | Referee Bob Nixon was told of the outburst and immediately showed the red card to the big target man . |
| 30 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |