Example sentences of "to [adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepted minor administrative office under the ministry of Frederick North ( Lord North ) , then from 1782 to 1799 served as a commissioner of stamps . |
| 2 | Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations . |
| 3 | Since SRO 's are required to ensure that their rule books provide investors with protection which is at least adequate in comparison to that afforded by the SIB 's rules , the SRO 's will be obliged to adopt anti-insider dealing rules broadly similar to those of the SIB . |
| 4 | On April 25 the Senate approved by voice vote a $1,450,000 million budget bill broadly similar to that passed by the House . |
| 5 | If the legislature finds that limitations on the common law principle are needed for reasons of policy or good administration then they can be adopted by legislation , e.g. by a short limitation period , presumptions as to validity , even ( which I mention but do not necessarily think appropriate since the matter has not been discussed ) a power in the courts to limit the effects of any order for recovery comparable to that conferred on the European Court of Justice by article 174 of the E.E.C . |
| 6 | ‘ Management rotation , ’ state Kenney and Florida ( 1988 : 134 ) , ‘ results in flexibility and learning by doing similar to that experienced on the shopfloor . |
| 7 | Consequently , the sufferer increasingly cuts himself or herself off from the reality of life as presented by others and continues to blame them for their failure to provide unconditional love and " understanding " comparable to that experienced in the relationship with alcohol or with other substances or behaviour that lead to alteration of mood . |
| 8 | If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be . |
| 9 | This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly . |
| 10 | Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’ |
| 11 | The county court said that it was not , this interpretation being opposite to that reached by a different county court . |
| 12 | Protection of the Environment … it shall be the task of the legislators to protect the natural basis of man 's existence , with due regard for prevention , the polluter-pays principle and co-operation , and to promote uniform ecological conditions of a high standard at least equivalent to that reached in the FRG … |
| 13 | The polar moment of inertia of the Moon C has been determined from J 2 , and from the physical librations which for the Moon have played an equivalent role in determining C to that played by the rate of polar axis precession in the case of the Earth ( see section 3.2.1 ) . |
| 14 | The mutated promoters all bound cAMP-CRP with the same affinity as the wt-promoter and the mobilities of the two retarded complexes was identical to that observed for the wt-promoter . |
| 15 | On the south side of the town , just north of the bridge crossing the Tyne , a constriction in Dere Street has been noted , of the same width as between the foundations at the north gate ; the length of the ‘ constriction ’ would have accommodated a wall and bank of nearly similar dimensions to that observed on the north side of the town . |
| 16 | In some ways the control is similar to that observed in the cat , in that eye-movement amplitude varied with stimulus intensity . |
| 17 | It is the escalation of the profiling movement from a diverse and essentially idiosyncratic set of initiatives into a development that looks likely to be rationalized in terms of National Criteria in a very similar way to that imposed on the GCSE itself which makes most problematic the relationship between the two initiatives . |
| 18 | The text of the new treaty was substantively identical to that negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1991 , dropping the 1948 commitment for either side to come to the other 's assistance if it were attacked . |
| 19 | Often difficulty arises if the purchaser insists not only on extensive environmental warranties and indemnities but also on applying different liability limitation compared to that negotiated on the other warranties . |
| 20 | Yet if Miss Hill was unlucky not to get a medal , her disappointment was nothing compared to that felt by the American Lance Larson on a steaming hot night in Rome over 30 years ago . |
| 21 | From the outset of the march , the demonstrators observed a different route to that notified to the police . |
| 22 | Every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of property bounded by or adjacent to a canal should search before exchange of contracts by letter , with a plan , for information similar to that sought in the case of rivers . |
| 23 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 24 | From his small office , the solicitor explains that deals similar to that offered to the Salvation Army — where they invested $10 million in a deal that promised high interest returns — are kept secret among high-ranking individuals in the world of finance . |
| 25 | These libraries offer a copy service similar to that offered in the UK by the British Library ( BLDSC ) . |
| 26 | Although requiring constant attention to water management , it provided a geographical base for the infant kingdom superior to that offered by the bleak , intermontane valleys inland , across the high limestone ranges of the Velebit mountains . |
| 27 | The ballot service , similar to that offered by the Electoral Reform Society , cut its losses on increased business . |
| 28 | Any extended space-time beyond this singularity will depend on extra initial data in addition to that specified on the initial Cauchy hypersurface for the colliding wave problem . |
| 29 | One distressing sequence we filmed in the laboratories portrayed mice with their little noses pushed into holes in a plastic tube along which was passed tobacco smoke equivalent to that inhaled by a human on twenty cigarettes a day . |
| 30 | Indeed , recently the French Government suggested that in addition to its measure to reduce the working week , establish early retirement and other features to deal with some of the multiplier effects of growing structural unemployment , it will also engage in a campaign of socially useful production similar to that advocated by the Lucas workers . |