Example sentences of "in [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may well be gender differences in attitudes to paid work , but these are not adequately demonstrated by the reiteration of the old adage that women 's primary role is a family one . |
| 2 | The Government 's recent increase in funding to British Rail will enable the modernisation of the line to be begun with a £50 million resignalling project . |
| 3 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 4 | On April 9 Czechoslovakia became an observer and Poland , Hungary and Yugoslavia became full members of the Council of Europe 's Pompidou Group , set up in 1971 in response to international drug trafficking . |
| 5 | In response to fluctuating hormone levels during each oestrous cycle , some eggs are released to resume development . |
| 6 | These authors measured thromboxane generation in response to arachidonic acid and collagen in a group of 11 diabetic patients with neuropathy . |
| 7 | Muscle strips relaxed in response to electrical field stimulation with a pulse strength of 10 V and a pulse duration of 0.5 ms ( n=24 ) . |
| 8 | The most reproducible decrease in urine acid output in response to normal food was observed around the time breakfast was usually eatenand was abolished by 36 hours of treatment with ranitidine . |
| 9 | In response to Labour questioning , Mr MacGregor said : ‘ Without any question I am keen to ensure that both from the passenger and freight point of view the north of England and Scotland gain as much benefit as possible from the Channel Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel high-speed link . ’ |
| 10 | The success of monetary union in promoting a more balanced development within the EC rests ultimately upon factors such as the degree of wage flexibility , the mobility of capital in response to differential labour costs , versus the advantages of centralisation and agglom- eration . |
| 11 | As in the case of that animal , their clothes must fit their habitat , changing in response to external change . |
| 12 | When the codes of practice were revised recently in response to strong pressure from the police , the guidance was made slightly less restrictive by removing the statement that reasonable suspicion should be no less than the suspicion required to effect arrest without warrant . |
| 13 | The society implemented its scheme ‘ in response to strong consumer demand ’ . |
| 14 | The vugs , fractures and intercrystalline pores , on the other hand , are thought to have formed in response to late leaching ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 15 | Whilst it may have become commonplace in Western Europe and the United States for Turks or Mexicans to move north in response to economic opportunity , the Turkic populations of the USSR show no such proclivity . |
| 16 | In response to petty vandalism , it is planned to erect ‘ modest railings ’ around the church . |
| 17 | Brutality and callousness are never justified , even in response to disgusting conduct . |
| 18 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 19 | Protocol 2 studied the phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection in response to mild irritation of the duodenal mucosa in the three experimental groups . |
| 20 | However , it is possible that both phenomena ( adaptive cytoprotection and surfactant lipid barrier ) are integrated in a common protective mechanism , as far as the enhanced mucosal ability to synthesise prostaglandins would facour the prompt accumulation of hydrophobic phospholipids on the mucosal surface in response to mild irritation , rendering the mucosa more resistant to subsequent acid challenge . |
| 21 | Saying that it suffered a sudden drop in demand during last year 's third quarter , an upsurge in the normally strong fourth quarter , and another significant decline in early 1993 , Amdahl Corp last week announced a big new round of cuts , saying that 1,100 jobs , 12.9% of its worldwide workforce , must go in response to current market conditions . |
| 22 | Saying that it suffered a sudden drop in demand during last year 's third quarter , an upsurge in the normally strong fourth quarter , and another significant decline in early 1993 , Amdahl Corp yesterday announced a big new round of cuts , saying that 1,100 jobs , 12.9% of its worldwide workforce , must go in response to current market conditions . |
| 23 | In practice , the balance has varied , in response to changing teaching and non-teaching needs . |
| 24 | This need arose not merely because of switches in statutory and other economic factors outside the control of the Group , but because the Group needed to develop the ability to expand , amalgamate , contract or transfer depots quickly in response to changing market demand . |
| 25 | By the Carboniferous many of the shapes we see in living gastropods can be matched in the fossils , but despite these similarities the majority of the Palaeozoic forms were not closely related to their living analogues ; this is another example of similar-looking forms evolving independently probably in response to similar life habits . |
| 26 | Experiment 4 : changes in motor activity in response to intra-aretrial infusion of PYY ( n=7 ) and TDCA ( n=4 ) |
| 27 | Three other schools are to have ballots of parents on opting out , in response to regional rationalisation plans . |
| 28 | It has been recognised for over a century that the internal anal sphincter relaxes in response to rectal distension , a phenomenon called the rectanal inhibitory reflex . |
| 29 | It is based on the rationale that patients can be trained to increase the anal sphincter contractile capability in response to rectal distension , if a residual rectal sensation is present . |
| 30 | Patients were trained in increasing strength and duration of external anal sphincter contractions in response to rectal distension . |