Example sentences of "the [adj -er] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family tradition had it , says David Gieve in his bicentenary history of Gieves Hawkes 1785–1985 , that it was James Gieve who first persuaded the Director of Navy Accounts to extend the allotment system from the lower deck to officers . |
| 2 | There was the pond that lay , dark and mysterious , along the lower road to Lulling Woods , mirroring the trees that stood around it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The lower limit to transition even for very large disturbances is provided by the growth or otherwise of slugs . |
| 5 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 6 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
| 7 | Hornby , as Chief Officer and Vice-Chairman of the Council , issued the further particulars to candidates for the post he was intending to vacate the following year . |
| 8 | I am glad the Government have set their face against that , and I welcome the further commitment to NATO in the Gracious Speech . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not one of the easier fish to condition to aquarium conditions . |
| 11 | What is clear is that for [ Whitehouse ] and others like her , there is a determination to restore a Christian culture to Britain , and in that battle the greater availability of sexually explicit cultural forms , the easier access to abortion and divorce , the legitimation of homosexuality between consenting adults and so on are developments which must at all costs not only be stemmed but at some ill-defined date in the future actually reversed . |
| 12 | There was also the lighter side to things , like the day a high-ranking RAF officer paid us a visit from Group Headquarters , the reason for which escapes me now . |
| 13 | The authorship of the shorter prologue to Lex Salica is a minor problem by comparison with the other conundra presented by the hornet 's nest of Salic Law . |
| 14 | Effectively the shorter prologue to Lex Salica raises the question of the extent to which the law was royal and the extent to which it was customary . |
| 15 | Some models of development had been proposed which would require changes in the Charter and Statutes , but since there was no evidence that the government wished to see any change in the basic role ‘ of the Council or in the status of institutions in the maintained sector ’ , the Council had given priority in the shorter term to developments within the existing Charter and Statutes . |
| 16 | Hence the rounded ‘ Euro-styling ’ , the enhanced build quality and the larger body to distance it from its old Sierra/Cavalier class origins . |
| 17 | The proportion decreased in the later series to 25% ( 37 of 148 available specimens ) ( p<0.046 ) . |
| 18 | Rover claim their cars are good value for money and have the option of being run on diesel , the cheaper alternative to petrol . |
| 19 | ANY GIVEN weekday night , the 8.00 from Coventry to Birmingham carries a cargo of young gig-goers from the smaller city to Brum , all in search of cheap thrills , sexual gratification , spiritual uplift and all this at the Smashing Pumpkins ' gig at Aston University . |
| 20 | The shaded part of area 10 is equal to the higher return to UK capital from being invested in Germany . |
| 21 | Farndon & Holt will give catches of small chub and dace while the streamier waters on the higher reaches to Bangor best of all with chub , dace and few grayling . |
| 22 | The lower rate applies where loans represent 90% or less of the property valuation — the higher rate to loans of between 90% and 95% of valuation . |
| 23 | Most of the homes in the South fall into the higher E to H council tax bands , ranging from £88,000 to £320,000 plus . |
| 24 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 25 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 26 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 27 | West Malling , in Kent , one-time home of the Great Warbirds Air Display for ten years is probably one of the better-known location to FlyPast readers and is a case in point , writes David Ogilvy . |
| 28 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 29 | If she looked left she saw the wider road to Lulling , with a few comfortable houses standing well back in leafy gardens . |
| 30 | ‘ The people of the GDR do not need lectures on this subject from outsiders , ’ commented Dr Kohl , adding that Mr Gorbachev 's survival was vital for the wider movement to democracy and reform in eastern Europe . |