Example sentences of "[coord] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not appropriate to apply a 60% allowance to the Structure Plan requirement of 2,500 per annum in the period 1991–96 or to the five year housing land supply . |
| 2 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 3 | Except where aridity can be countered by irrigation , low rainfall tends to monoculture and social instability or to the poorest type of cereal farming . |
| 4 | Second , there was the loss of certain responsibilities either to central government departments or to the regional structure of nationalised industries or services . |
| 5 | Its aim is to see whether safeguards such as standards for prison conditions , independent inspectorates , and independent tribunals in internal disciplinary hearings , make any difference to the ‘ quality of life ’ of inmates or to the good running of the prisons , and whether a failure in the effectiveness of any one safeguard has any consequences for the effectiveness of others . |
| 6 | A state of emergency decreed by the HCS on Feb. 9 gave the Ministry of the Interior the power to designate " areas for the organized residence of non-residents " and to detain any adult " whose activity is clearly found to be constituting a danger to public order and security , or to the good running of public services " . |
| 7 | Those with no stomach for sentimentality should leave this page now and turn instead to Sean O'Hagan 's report on Hothouse Flowers and the hippies of Dublin ( the City That Time Forgot ) , to Cynthia Rose 's penetrating profile of American TV megastar Arsenio Hall , or to the exclusive on-set report on the making of the Madonna/Warren Beatty film , Dick Tracy . |
| 8 | Part of the refugee problem will be solved by granting them the right of return to Palestine ( i.e. the West Bank and Gaza Strip ) or to the Jordanian-Palestinian federation . ’ |
| 9 | As a result , policy and resources committee proceedings have in many authorities become either duplicates of , or substitutes for , the work of the full council and the function of policy co-ordination has shifted to the party political groups , or to the chief executive and management team , or … both' ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 91 ) . |
| 10 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 11 | Co-existence and co-operation between the two organisations were apparently accepted by members , but these were not easy matters to explain to them or to the hearing world , and met with at least some opposition . |
| 12 | Facts appear solid , values fluid ; there are firm reasons for accepting , if only provisionally , scientific laws of nature , none for submitting to canons of taste or to the moral law . |
| 13 | The environmental impact assessment prepared for the Bill is an example of the latter type as no reference has been made to the NRA or to the environmental health department of Cardiff city council . |
| 14 | Compare it to the way a bobby pounds his beat or to the leisurely stroll Prince Philip adopts when he follows his wife on a walkabout . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 16 | In an extreme case , the government may insist on the surrender to it ( or to the central bank ) of all foreign exchange . |
| 17 | Where the water is heated by pumped circulation operating in conjunction with a central heating system , the valve may be a three-way one which will divert the water either to the hot water cylinder or to the central heating radiators or , sometimes , to both see Chapter 11 . |
| 18 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 19 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 20 | Any of its elements could be sent as part of a package , shaped either to the military job that needed doing or to the political reality of which countries were willing to join in . |
| 21 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 22 | One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross . |
| 23 | If the client ca n't be dissuaded , the Law Society has directed that the following steps by a solicitor are obligatory : ( 1 ) A solicitor must , with his clients ' authority , at once disclose in writing his clients ' decisions to the solicitor for each prospective buyer ( or to the prospective buyer if he or she is unrepresented ) . |
| 24 | It is for the housing authority to decide whether they have reason to believe the matters which will give rise to the duty to inquire or to the temporary housing duty . |
| 25 | Petre paid little attention either to the Irish dimension of Catholic relief or to the changing constituency of English Catholicism . |
| 26 | Subsidiaries acquired or sold during the year are included from the effective date of acquisition or to the effective date of disposal . |
| 27 | When his strength , therefore , or his speed , or his limbs , or his senses fail him , he is delivered over , either to absolute famine , or to the protracted wretchedness of a life slowly wasted by the scarcity of food . |
| 28 | Step 1 Speak first to the person who arranged the policy for you , or to the General Accident office who handle your insurance . |
| 29 | Step 1 Speak first to the person who arranged the policy for you , or to the General Accident office who handle your insurance . |
| 30 | Step 1 Speak first to the person who arranged the policy for you , or to the General Accident office who handle your insurance . |