Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force . |
| 2 | In the past these synthesizing studies have been difficult to perform due to the lack of a technology which allows the storing , retrieval , analysis , manipulation and display of large volumes of data relating to areal units and their properties . |
| 3 | It is normal for blood pressure and pulse rates to fall due to the effect of anaesthetic drugs and gases on the cardiac and respiratory centres . |
| 4 | Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism . |
| 5 | Woolf seemed to ascribe this to the ignorance of English sentencers about prison conditions on the one hand and other countries ’ practices on the other . |
| 6 | It will be interesting to compare this to the speed of the user fittable Cyrix 386 pin compatible 486 device that is rumoured to have a release date towards the end of this year . |
| 7 | If it is appropriate for a case to go direct to the House of Lords it seems wrong that a litigant should be able to frustrate what appears to be a proper course . |
| 8 | Thus , French High Commissioner Pignon was hoping for American assistance in replacing and repairing military equipment ; said he was prepared for US military aid to go direct to the Vietnam government ; but also , in order to deter a Chinese invasion of Tonkin , was trying to talk the US into sending warships , particularly aircraft-carriers , into Indo-Chinese waters . |
| 9 | However , it recommends that the auditor should have a duty to report direct to the regulator and should be required to examine and comment on the effectiveness of the internal controls the trustees have established . |
| 10 | Howard was still able to report direct to the PM . |
| 11 | Such combinations are generally difficult for natural language systems to process due to the changes in the syntactic and semantic properties of the constituent words ( and the acquisition of information about the compounds ) . |
| 12 | The style was adopted early and relinquished late ; the former because it suited the country and its people , the latter because links with Renaissance ideas were slow to percolate due to the isolation from the Continent . |
| 13 | Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are . |
| 14 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 15 | Part of the experiment was to discover resident reactions to the measures and to relate these to the expenditure incurred , thus providing a crude measure of cost-effectiveness . |
| 16 | So take advantage , as early as possible , of the facilities offered , to assess your interests , abilities and aspirations and to relate these to the opportunities available . |
| 17 | ‘ Stay there , ’ he said and got out to stand close to the vehicle . |
| 18 | What chloroplast cells there are tend to concentrate near to the veins , so that the little carbohydrate that is elaborated is quickly moved into the nearby veins and carried to where it is needed , thus we get a characteristic green outline to the veins in an otherwise pale green , even yellowish , leaf . |
| 19 | Here , the patterns are ready to view on screen in their original design colours , or to download direct to the console for knitting without making any changes or alterations . |
| 20 | The company hopes to sell 10,000 to the home market , 10,000 to the small business user and approximately 20,000 to corporates in the first year . |
| 21 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 22 | Many expect the peso to hit 28.5 to the dollar before the end of the year . |
| 23 | In major foreign markets Japan , Germany , France and Britain — the policy was to go native to the extent of roughly matching local production and local sales . |
| 24 | Some people prefer to glue these to the base glass using silicone sealant but , in my opinion , this is not really necessary . |
| 25 | His debut was delayed by the refusal of North Midlands to play due to the strength of the opposition . |
| 26 | The small-holding had failed to prosper due to the owner 's propensity for fishing off Lee Haven , or drinking in the pub across the sound in Brides Haven . |
| 27 | Do you want me to play this to the lot on the way to Bournemouth next week ? |
| 28 | Yanto stood alone in the oily smelling cabin , allowing his eyes to grow accustomed to the gloom after the bright sunshine outside . |
| 29 | Unfortunately the Muddletonians erm seems to contradict the point I 'm wanting to make , because erm frankly it seems to belong more to the world of historical novels . |
| 30 | The proper procedure is to apply first to the Court of Appeal , but if leave is refused , the application may be renewed before the Appeal Committee within one month of the refusal of leave by the Court of Appeal . |