Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
| 2 | Since 1988 the register of title has been open to inspection by the general public . |
| 3 | Japan urged repayment by North Korea of accumulated debts of 80,000 million yen ( US$580 million ) , and repeated earlier calls for North Korea to open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 4 | They also agreed that it was imperative that the North Korean government open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 5 | The firm 's accounting practices should be open to inspection by the local professional body . |
| 6 | The papers of the Lord Chancellor 's Department which are open to inspection in the Public Record Office are therefore a valuable but under-used source of information for the study of recent political and social history , public administration and law . |
| 7 | In a speech in Seoul on 27 April Rhee cleverly sought to reconcile his own vigorous hostility to communism with the American approach to world problems . |
| 8 | All too frequently Nizan 's highly publicised resignation from the PCF in September 1939 is interpreted by contemporary liberal critics imbued with a visceral hostility to communism as the visible sign that his allegiance to the party was flawed from the beginning . |
| 9 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |
| 10 | Excess of oligonucleotide 1 led to recircularization of the original vector whereas insufficient quantities resulted in incomplete digestion . |
| 11 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 12 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 13 | Robyn 's generation , coming up to university in the early 1970s , immediately after the heroic period of student politics , were oppressed by a sense of belatedness . |
| 14 | ‘ I still feel he should have gone to university like the other two . |
| 15 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 16 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 17 | An end to unity on the left , and thereby of its political dominance , was in sight . |
| 18 | Galvin , Swindon 's Irish winger , has recovered from injury , while Parkin returns to defence for the suspended Gittens . |
| 19 | This terrain of rocky canyons and dusty valleys is well suited to defence against the Ethiopian army in a war of independence that has lasted 25 years . |
| 20 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 21 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 22 | The vast bulk of delegated legislation is made with no reference to Parliament beyond the original delegation of power to make it by Parliament . |
| 23 | The government ( Cmnd 9008 , 1983 ) summarised its economic case thus : ‘ Ministers are accountable to Parliament for the broad conduct of the economy … . |
| 24 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 25 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 26 | It was the latter 's religious and political disaffection which took most of the county over to Parliament in the Civil Wars . |
| 27 | Indeed the same evidence has been tendered , the same facts had been brought to the attention of the same Committee in 1972 ; but the Committee had reported to Parliament in the opposite sense , stating the opposite to the evidence they had actually received from those who were competent to tender it . |
| 28 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 29 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 30 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |