Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duration of exposure of the lower oesophagus to acid in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus is illustrated in Figure 2 , and shows that both groups had markedly increased acid exposure ( % total time pH <4= 19.2 ( 5.1 ) % v 19.3 ( 4.9 ) % ) , in comparison with asymptomatic controls . |
| 2 | Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave . |
| 3 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 4 | Dr Kennedy has sent a letter to Mrs Falconer saying that he does not see what benefit can arise from any further extension to consideration of the matter . ’ |
| 5 | Hence the British government adopted a broader approach to membership of the EC than a basic CU framework would dictate ( British Government White Paper 1971 ) . |
| 6 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 7 | However , if you need to get onto port tack as soon as possible , then go behind any big group and tack into the ( probably ) larger gap to windward of them . |
| 8 | Didier Boidin to manager of the Hotel Inter-Continental , London , from resident manager Le Grand Hotel in Paris . |
| 9 | Better march to attention into camp , had n't we ? ’ |
| 10 | And , in a clear reference to SCO 's well-publicised drive towards a flotation in the US , he said the acquisition will provide ‘ a faster route to liquidity for IXI shareholders . ’ |
| 11 | It also wants to give higher priority to art in education in order to reach a wider audience . |
| 12 | It is , as I shall try now to show , a more powerful and persuasive conception of law than conventionalism , and a stronger challenge to law as integrity . |
| 13 | Indeed when in Opposition amendments had been moved unsuccessfully to give greater effect to reparation during the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in 1966/7 . |
| 14 | Rejecting the younger officers ' professed greater commitment to prosecution as a ready sanction for deviance , the older staff claim they will negotiate whenever possible , contemplating the law as the ultimate response , resorted to with extreme reluctance . |
| 15 | Men like Acton used the twin issues of prostitution and venereal disease to insist that medics rather than moralists now had far greater claim to authority on social and environmental issues . |
| 16 | In this population , bowel function and transit time are different in women of childbearing age ( 25–49 ) and older women , with a greater tendency to constipation in the first . |
| 17 | What nobody seemed to notice was that the text of Article 23 , by referring to ‘ pre-trial discovery of documents as known in Common Law countries ’ , and especially in omitting the earlier reference to discovery between the parties , covered some types of the form of discovery known in the United States , which is far wider in its scope than that known in other Common Law countries . |
| 18 | The narrower approach to remoteness of damage in property damage cases could be explained on the grounds that the plaintiff is likely to be insured against such damage and that the extent of the damage in such cases could be great . |