Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applications for admission to full-time Faculty of Arts degree courses must be made through UCAS . |
| 2 | If you can afford them , or can make your own , rough-hewn granite water basins and lanterns are far preferable to mass-produced items of reconstituted stone , though even these will mellow with age . |
| 3 | The issue of judicial control over juries with a view to pre-empting decisions of fact , however , is neutral as between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to mistake . |
| 4 | Relate to hypothetical activity of roller , grinder , sieves and mill , he wrote . |
| 5 | Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle . |
| 6 | As things turned out Meyer had the satisfaction of being able to point to alluvial sources of nephrite in eastern Switzerland and central Germany . |
| 7 | The bismuth enemas contained 450 mg bismuth citrate , equivalent to 216 mg of metallic bismuth with 900 mg carbomer 934P ( Carbopol , Goodrich Ltd , UK ) in 100 ml with a pH of 6.5 to 7.4 . |
| 8 | The software supports up to 256 shades of grey , and colour images are automatically converted to black and white for printing , text screens can be converted to graphics , or colour images can be adjusted on screen to further enhance the depth of colour used . |
| 9 | The spreadsheet uses a three-dimensional technique , up to 256 pages of data with each page being 256 cells by 256 cells . |
| 10 | The response to cumulative doses of salbutamol was compared with that to non-cumulative doses of salmeterol . |
| 11 | The lines to low frequency of the incident radiation are called Stokes lines , and those at higher frequency are called anti-Stokes lines ; the latter arise from vibrationally-excited states . |
| 12 | For example , transition metal carbonyls show weak IR absorptions to low frequency of the very intense 12 CO stretching bands . |
| 13 | Such research should also consider whether there is a link between long-term exposure to low concentrations of organic solvents and other neurotoxic substances and the appearance of early senile dementia and other brain damage . |
| 14 | We studied a human fibroblast cell line that was entirely depleted of mtDNA by long-term exposure to low concentrations of ethidium bromide as previously described . |
| 15 | The 701.2 a cell line ( cells ) was derived from a simian virus 40 T-antigen-gene-transformed derivative of the human fibroblast line GM701 ( ref. 25 ) ( pt cells ) by long-term exposure to low concentrations of ethidium bromide ( M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished data ) . |
| 16 | In the study by Chacin et al on isolated toad gastric mucosa beer and wine had an effect similar to low concentrations of ethanol . |
| 17 | In an attempt to quantify the risk , the Ministry of Defence in the UK commissioned a study of staff engaged in atomic weapons research at Aldermaston and associated establishments who had had repeated exposure to low levels of ionising radiation . |
| 18 | If indeed there are dangers to the health of our children in exposure to low levels of lead , and if we can reduce this exposure by banning lead additives from petrol , then something can and should be done . |
| 19 | Based on these observations , it can be hypothesized that , during the transition from high to low levels of infant mortality , the optimum age for childbearing tends to shift to younger ages ( perhaps from 30–34 to 20–24 ) , and the curve depicting infant mortality by maternal age tends to change from a " U " or reverse " J " shaped type associated with high mortality to a " J " shaped type associated with lower levels . |
| 20 | It is this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment . |
| 21 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 22 | Because operations remain vulnerable to low levels of economic growth in Shell 's main markets and also because of sluggish oil prices , the company will continue to put emphasis on the cost-effectiveness of its activities in the North Sea and elsewhere , as well as looking at ways of rationalising its portfolio of assets to maintain profitability . |
| 23 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 24 | Strict control of the money supply seemed to be linked to low rates of inflation in Switzerland and West Germany . |
| 25 | They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth . |
| 26 | This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening . |
| 27 | Dissociation of initiation from propagation probably accounts for abortive spikes such as those observed in HeLa cells responding to low doses of histamine . |
| 28 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 29 | They can be induced to undergo apoptosis at an even more rapid rate in vivo and in vitro by exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation or other DNA-damaging treatments , or by treatment with glucocorticoids or by a calcium ionophore in the presence of phorbol ester . |
| 30 | The death of 1,426 Moslem pilgrims when a tunnel collapsed in Mecca on July 2 , during the Eid al-Adha ( Feast of the sacrifices ) at the end of the annual Haj ( pilgrimage ) , led to strong criticism of the Saudi Arabian government from several Moslem countries . |