Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 2 | By 1991 , fuelled by Ministerial exasperation with continuing industrial action and union-led recalcitrance to changed working patterns , the structure of the Prison Service was once more under review . |
| 3 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 4 | In particular , the final chapter presents an intriguing model for the theoretical upper and lower limits to body size in ruminants , based , as the author cheerfully admits , on some speculative assumptions but surprisingly accurate nonetheless . |
| 5 | setting upper and lower limits to the value of an attribute , are difficult to achieve . |
| 6 | Near Marston Doles the route turned south , past Priors Hardwick , Upper and Lower Boddington to Aston-le-Wall , near which it crosses the Banbury-Daventry road . |
| 7 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 8 | These would take place on a series of Sundays , for instance , or as a block of evening classes , and cater for all levels of ability from foundation and introductory courses to advanced tuition , allowing students to progress at a steady and consistent rate . |
| 9 | It was never expected that such measures would cause a transfer of car users to the bike , but it was hoped that by making the route safer and more comfortable , recreational use of the route might rise and parental objections to children cycling to school might diminish . |
| 10 | For instance , in other areas of law concerning children , such as fostering , adoption and parental access to children in care , social workers as agents of the state have developed informal rules for decision-making . |
| 11 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 12 | It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar . |
| 13 | And that committment to building railways as well as roads with private cash was boosted this week . |
| 14 | It will be clear that contributions are usually paid out of income and that entitlement to benefits is dependent upon contributions having been paid . |
| 15 | In this last named authority , relied upon by Mr. Reynolds in support of his contentions as to the true interpretation of the word ‘ office , ’ it is noteworthy that Lord Wilberforce , at p. 860 , commented that over the years words of ordinary meaning had acquired , in the context of tax legislation , a signification coloured by legal construction in a technical context , and that return to the pure source of common parlance was no longer possible . |
| 16 | Herbert Spencer believed that there was a cosmic metaphysical er life force , if you like , and that evolution to higher , more complex and more integrated entities was a fundamental aspect of physics , biology and sociology . |
| 17 | Janet Willcock called for the unity of all radical opinion in Derry ; Eamonn McCann said that Terence O'Neill could not be distinguished from Lord Brookeborough and that reference to liberal unionism was double talk . |
| 18 | That is a thoroughly unsatisfactory way of calling our Heads of Government and that Council to democratic account for their actions to this House and to our people . |
| 19 | The secretary general reported satisfactory progress with the construction of the extension to Thomas Graham House and that disruption to staff is minimal . |
| 20 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 21 | It was entirely our responsibility and that evening to well past midnight Leon and I took her through the changes until she was satisfied that she knew the policy thoroughly . |
| 22 | These findings comfirm that low grade gastric MALT lymphomas are usually indolent tumours with non-specific endoscopic aspects and that dissemination to other mucosal sites was more frequent than previously reported . |
| 23 | Data reported by Malingreau and Tucker ( 1988 ) , however , suggest that these estimates are incorrect and that conversion to pasture is at least as significant as shifting cultivation . |
| 24 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 25 | Moreover , that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion . |
| 26 | What pissed me off is , is he 's hanging about with James and that lot now right , but when you talk about James and that lot to him its , oh they 're a bunch of chiefs . |
| 27 | It is the job of those responsible for managing that plant and that technology to be thinking furiously what the next step is , and what changes and improvements they can see , because if you are not doing this your competitors will . |
| 28 | Then one way in which we can accommodate context-relativity is to say that the proposition expressed by a sentence in a context is a function from possible worlds and that context to truth values . |
| 29 | A roundtable discussion on the question ‘ What type of information do we need in the Middle East ? ’ dealt , among other things , with attitudes to information in the region , in view of the perception that information means power , and that access to it should therefore be restricted . |
| 30 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |