Example sentences of "[subord] to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the information available shows that the Brent flocks in these two harbours remain largely separate , except to the north of Hayling Island , and counts of the entire Chichester/Langstone complex since 1972/73 have shown the peak populations to reach 10,000 to 12,000 birds . |
| 2 | The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor . |
| 3 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 4 | The US International Trade Commission last week gave its final ruling that South Korean companies were dumping dynamic random access memory chips on the US market to the detriment of US chip manufacturers — although to the benefit of the much larger population of chip users and their customers : the Customs Service will therefore levy duties on the South Korean imports , which totalled $446 million in 1991 — duties of up to 11.45% will be levied on parts made by Hyundai Electronics Co , Goldstar Electron Co and Samsung Electronics Co . |
| 5 | Most are from the area to the north-east of Cirencester , although to the south of the town other sites , e.g. Woodchester and Newton St. Loe , are important . |
| 6 | However , as is typical of much illuminative evaluation , our approach owes much more to the interpretive paradigm in the social sciences than to the paradigm of positivism with which it is supposedly in eternal conflict ( Dawe , 1970 ; Gorbutt , 1972 ; Ford , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Lastly , the applicants in the main proceedings pointed out that the conditions imposed by the Act of 1988 attached to the registration of fishing vessels rather than to the issue of licences to fish for quota stock . |
| 8 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 9 | She belonged to the present more than to the past of that bedroom . |
| 10 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 11 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 12 | It is because of these broader questions that an honourable feminist tradition has arisen , especially in the social sciences , of directing attention to the way sex difference has been described and explained , rather than to the content of difference itself . |
| 13 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
| 14 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |
| 15 | The narrower the range of comparison , the surer we shall be that the stylistic features we are attributing to Jane Austen are peculiar to her style , rather than to the style of a larger category of writings " which includes hers . |
| 16 | The people looked different , too more akin to the Cambodians or Siamese than to the Malays of the coast . |
| 17 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 18 | The paper devotes more attention to establishing basic ideologies than to the problems of how they relate to specific strategies . |
| 19 | She is less sensitive to the frequency or pitch of the sound than to the timing of the pulses of sound and the variations in their loudness . |
| 20 | Discipline was not considered a problem , but this was largely due to external factors rather than to the activities of senior staff . |
| 21 | This obviously applies to some areas of life more than to others , to choice of friends more than to the choice of legal argument in a court case . |
| 22 | But Mannheim was referring more to the form of knowledge — the meanings out of which ideas could be constructed and understood — than to the substance of particular ideologies . |
| 23 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 24 | The day-to-day running of the school ( within the framework of policies and decisions made by and/or on behalf of the governing body ) is still the responsibility of the headteacher who now ‘ reports ’ to the governing body rather than to the officers of the LEA . |
| 25 | They recommended that the committee structure should be linked to the objectives of the local authority rather than to the provision of particular services . |
| 26 | I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) that , because of our world empire , we looked outwards , across the Atlantic , rather than to the mainland of Europe . |
| 27 | More people support angling and less people are strongly opposed to it than to the hunting of deer , foxes , hares and other mammals . |
| 28 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |
| 29 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 30 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |