Example sentences of "to [det] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The relationship between these men and their clients was likened to that between a cobra and its prey .
2 This makes no biological sense , of course , but it has a certain psychological validity , in that the significance to most members of our society of the difference between , say , a thrush and a blackbird is roughly comparable to that between a collie and a spaniel .
3 The difference is akin to that between a bag of marbles and a pillar of marble .
4 Ironically , Judaism 's splendid emphasis on the father-son relationship , the most sacred there is next to that between the Creator and the created , exacerbates this loss ; hence Judaism 's very humane laws to do with ‘ the fatherless ’ — far ahead of its and any other time .
5 This shows a floral device identical to that at the centre of a reassembled pavement now displayed in Colchester Museum ( pI .
6 It was built originally as two cottages , and one of the most striking features of the house is that the ceiling at the front is at a different level to that at the back .
7 Looking first at the traces for the insert ( TA ) 10 ( Figures 1a and 2a ) it can be seen that there are nine cleavage products which have a similar intensity to that at the sequence CGC on the 5'-side ( above ) of the insert and which are about twice as strong as that at the AGC site .
8 I do n't need to be reminded that it was the previous administration who put it in the structure plan but I also want to remind those who were n't here that I was utterly opposed to that at the time .
9 Correspondence , if you 'd all refer to that at the moment actually .
10 And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’
11 It is hard to see how global melting of the outer Moon could yield a crust with a different thickness on one side of the Moon to that on the other .
12 The findings of this computation suggest that child spacing , as expected , has an effect on the viability of fetuses similar to that on the survival of infants .
13 Well , there 's something similar to that on the poster , is n't there , that we do
14 The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took .
15 To achieve a sound similar to that on the record ( forgetting , if we can , the unbelievable production quality of this whole album ) you should use a fairly distorted amp setting and play the solo using fingerstyle throughout .
16 And that 's , you know , anybody listening to that on the television would think , oh yes , that 's true !
17 There is one exception to that with the straits .
18 The situation is quite similar therefore to that with the verbs of perception , which explains why Kruisinga and Erades ( 1960 : 366 ) have pointed out that " the perception or causing is thought of as happening simultaneously with what is perceived or caused " .
19 Such a match , compared to that with the dauphin , would have been distinctly disparaging for Mary .
20 And you could go to that for a weekend if
21 It will charge interest on the cash amounts it advances at a rate similar to that for an overdraft .
22 The notation of the roll is similar to that for the timpani roll .
23 A successful applicant is normally admitted as a candidate for the degree of MPhil but may apply at a later date to transfer his or her registration to that for the degree of DPhil .
24 Inspection of ( 47 ) , repeated here for convenience as ( 65 ) ( 65 ) would lead us a priori to expect , first , that the language might provide a simple way to question the noun phrase and adjective taken as a unit , and second that , if there are simple interrogations for the noun phrase alone and for the adjective alone , these would take a form parallel to that for the subject and ( ordinary ) predicative adjective of a normal copular clause .
25 The relationship is similar to that for the elevation of boiling point : where is the cryoscopic constant .
26 They 're able to hold on to that for the duration of the talk and be able to understand them as concepts and therefore it helps to put over the ideas .
27 The situation might thus he similar to that for the Salam-Weinberg theory unifying electromagnetism and weak interactions .
28 For lid sitting down on to container , the single excursion in the container relationship must be opposite to that for the lid and one of the possible five in the other relationship .
29 ( An Apple Unix version of ChemMod II ) , identical to that for the Apple operating system is available on request ) .
30 Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour .
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