Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 2 | Third , the formal recognition of the acquis communautaire , provided for under Title I , in effect applies the notion of irreversible embracement by EEC institutions to the intergovernmental agreements . |
| 3 | Levinas objects to the implicit violence in the process of knowledge which appropriates and sublates the essence of the other into itself . |
| 4 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 5 | Tony Stafford talks to the former owner of Vernons Pools who is hoping for a jackpot dividend in two weeks ' time with Rodrigo de Triano and Musicale |
| 6 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 7 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 8 | And I think if we could make it get one of the Uttlesford chaps to the same meeting |
| 9 | It is therefore — by definition — setting out not to use all the NHS facilities to the greatest extent . |
| 10 | The Queen is under no obligation to restore the number of Knights Companions to the customary 24 , but the feeling is that she will . |
| 11 | We have a longer run of data for North Shields thanks to the earlier studies of the CDP , although there are major difficulties in comparing data from earlier ‘ card counts ’ with that produced by the Census of Employment ( Table 4.5 ) . |
| 12 | Opposition to the proposals has centred on plans to sell ITV franchises to the highest bidder , and the reduction in programme obligations for commercial TV . |
| 13 | The most disputed proposals in the bill — to cut the public service obligations of ITV and to auction ITV franchises to the highest bidder — were attacked by Mr Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , who said : ‘ Television franchises are to be sold like second-hand motor cars . |
| 14 | It comes as no surprise to us that the LDOS has managed in recent years to attract packed houses for public meetings to oppose Sunday working at the construction site at Arnish Point near Stornoway and for the campaign against Sunday sailings to the Western Isles by Cal-Mac . |
| 15 | West German tourists and Czechoslovaks gathered on street corners to cheer and wave as seven chartered Czechoslovak buses began many hours of ferrying the East Germans to the distant suburban rail terminus where trains arrived through the night to take them to West Germany . |
| 16 | Their line-up features a host of stars — from the Cuttitta brothers to the gifted Italo-Argentine Diego Dominguez . |
| 17 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 18 | The British Prime Minister , John Major , has announced a package of government measures to encourage technology transfer from UK companies to the developing world . |
| 19 | This assumes that the affected person makes IgE antibodies to the synthetic chemical concerned ( see p 25 ) , or responds with some other inappropriate and damaging immune reaction . |
| 20 | Baker 's September and October visits to the Middle East — Acceptances of invitations to conference |
| 21 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 22 | Julian Haylock talks to the distinguished pianist . |
| 23 | Their claim was all the more pointed for it was made in the City of London , in the heart of the constituency of Peter Brooke — replaced last night as Northern Ireland Secretary — who has led , with consummate patience , the process of bringing all the Ulster politicians to the same conference table for the first time in 16 years . |
| 24 | One potential embarrassment for the Government in the move is strong opposition of the Ulster Tories to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 25 | Although the August amendments to the Public Security Act had made chief district officers ( CDOs ) more accountable by ordering them to maintain law and order through district police , on Oct. 6 the government announced that CDOs had been armed with unlimited powers under the Security Act , as amended in September , to hold anyone in preventive detention for the maintenance of law and order . |
| 26 | There was the debilitating link between Neath and Wales which carted off a team-load of Neath players to the Welsh squad and left them psychologically impaired ; when Wales stumbled , they tumbled from bad to worse . |
| 27 | In the sixth arrondissement , between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des Saints-Peres , the Seine and the Luxembourg , about one hundred folk are traced , as they moved their operations from the Flore to the Deux Magots to the Brasserie Lipp or from the brothels of the Rue Gregoire de Tours to the cheap hotels , La Madison and La Lousiane but especially Le Montana . |
| 28 | ALEXANDER CAMPBELL talks to the ex-250 ace |
| 29 | These results demonstrate that a single productively rearranged TCR -β gene provides a sufficient signal for the transition of αβ lineage cells from a DN stage ( at least the stage reached in the RAG-1 mutant mice ) to a DP stage , and for the expansion of these DP cells to the normal level . |
| 30 | The transactivation domain of Myc maps to the 177 N-terminal residues , consistent with the mapping of this domain in GAL4-Myc chimaeras in mammalian cells . |