Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports continued of disagreements between Kurdish leaders [ see pp. 38308 ; 38361 ; 38407 ] after the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) , Masoud Barzani , challenged his political rivals on Oct. 29 to an electoral test to decide whether to accept the government 's autonomy plan or resort to armed struggle . |
| 2 | A satisfactory alternative or addition to biliary brush cytology is direct biopsy of the stricture using small forceps under fluoroscopic control . |
| 3 | Most of them died of starvation , beatings or exposure to sub-zero weather , bound naked to trees outside the group 's mountain hideouts. — Reuter |
| 4 | Breakage of or damage to fixed glass and sanitary fixtures . |
| 5 | A claim that the product is dangerous and has caused personal injuries or damage to other property ( i.e. other than the product itself ) is a claim for physical damage and can be brought in either contract , tort or under statute . |
| 6 | In the event of loss or damage to checked baggage , a Property Irregularity Report must be obtained from the airline in question , within seven days to comply with the Carriage By Air Act ( Warsaw Convention ) . |
| 7 | 1 Loss or damage to insured motor car |
| 8 | The loose bundle of phenomena , including such disparate occurrences as unruly behaviour of large crowds at sporting events , destruction of or damage to public property by juveniles , disturbing trends in crime statistics and overcrowding in prisons , is frequently referred to as the problem of ‘ law and order ’ and by that designation is placed within a particular set of priorities and linked generalisations about the proper structure of society , typically one in which the respect for law and the maintenance of public order have a particularly high value . |
| 9 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 10 | The Manpower Services Commission 's YTS , launched in 1983 , is an official initiative on a very large scale , aimed at mitigating the crisis in vocational training by provision of a ‘ permanent bridge between school and work ’ for any young person who on leaving school does not find herself/himself a job or entry to full-time education . |
| 11 | Gandhi speaks also of the need for abhyāsa , or single-minded devotion , and vairāgya , or indifference to worldly life . |
| 12 | The teams were as committed as any minister or pundit to widening choice , responding |
| 13 | Precondition or susceptibility to psychological breakdown . |
| 14 | A precondition or susceptibility to psychological breakdown . |
| 15 | Whether it was attitudes or setting or relevance to modern life , you know , to what extent are some of the stories relevant to their time and place , and not to our time and place , so that might be an interesting area to explore . |
| 16 | Do n't cross stitches from the main bed to the ribber or ribber to main bed . |
| 17 | Employees moving from an unfurnished flatlet or room to similar accommodation at the new base or who rent or buy a house at the new location receive a grant of £438 . |
| 18 | It is in fact the duty of the disposal authority not to reject the application unless planning permission is still required for the use of the site , for the purpose of preventing pollution of water or danger to public health . |
| 19 | Reason : ‘ To ensure that the operation of the plant does not give rise to an environmental hazard or danger to public health ’ . |
| 20 | Condition : ‘ Wastes shall be initially blended before incineration and the plant operated in such a manner as to ensure that the flue gases discharged to the atmosphere are such that they do not give rise to an environmental hazard or danger to public health ’ . |
| 21 | Alternatively , if in exercise of their supervisory duty under s.9(1) the disposal authority form the opinion that modification of the licence conditions is necessary to ensure that the disposal operation does not cause pollution to water or danger to public health , or become seriously detrimental to the amenities of the locality then s.7(1) ( b ) imposes a further duty on them , i.e. the disposal authority SHALL serve a notice on the company modifying the conditions . |
| 22 | As temperature decreases with height in the troposphere ( reaching -40 to -80 °C at the tropopause ) , the effect of a warm stratosphere is to act as a ceiling or lid to vertical motion in the troposphere — that is , convective processes which produce clouds and precipitation are contained within the troposphere . |
| 23 | It is essential to distinguish between , on the one hand , attaching priorities to different types of service or service to particular user groups , and on the other ensuring that certain types of material , reflecting certain views , are excluded from libraries altogether . |
| 24 | The end , by contrast , gives focus or emphasis to new information , and is generally the most appropriate position for the " point " of what you are saying . |
| 25 | These distinctions are often crucial to the management decision as treatment options vary from palliative stenting or radio/chemotherapy to curative resection or transplantation . |
| 26 | Assuming the job was cost effective on the basis of the original programme , any delay or commitment to extra work in the surveyor 's office could lead to the erosion of the job profit unless a significant increase in the fee datum occurs , i.e. the final account exceeds the contract sum . |
| 27 | It would be possible to dismiss the Plus Programme as merely an expression of a different style , without substance or commitment to institutional change . |
| 28 | British Gas should be contacted to check if a service is available on or adjacent to the site , and the cost to the developer of provision of any new or extension to existing mains . |
| 29 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 30 | It was to inaugurate the movement of the freedmen from the private and irresponsible authority of master or steward to proper restraint under judicial power . |