Example sentences of "to [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to reports , large numbers were allocated to rural and border regions where conditions would be hard and opportunities to develop their talents scarce . |
| 2 | He was chairman of Brooke Bond Group plc from 1981 to 1984 , ; chairman of John Brown plc from 1983 to 1986 and chairman of Thomas Cook Group Ltd from 1974 to 1987 . |
| 3 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 4 | She wanted to jump straight up from this padded and sheet-covered bench , once her blood donation was completed , and go up to Labour and Delivery to see , or at least hear about , Faye , but she knew from experience that giving blood left her drained and tired , and giving two hundred and fifty mils extra tonight would really sap her physical resources . |
| 5 | Belinda wanted to tell him not to worry about waiting for her if he wanted to return to Labour and Delivery , but somehow the words would n't come . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you want to get back to Labour and Delivery ? ’ she asked . |
| 7 | The referral of a set of questions under Article 177 EEC by the House of Lords in Webb v EMO Air Cargo ( UK ) Ltd raises the issue of the ambit of anti-discrimination law in relation to pregnant women under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Council Directive 76/207/EEC and also the scope of the protections offered under Council Directive 92185/ EEC ( OJ L 348/1 ) which gives improved rights to pregnant and breast-feeding women in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | In other areas large numbers of public service posts , financed by central government subsidies to regional and district authorities , are believed to contribute very little to the strengthening or regeneration of local economies . |
| 9 | First , attention should be drawn to the new directive from the Department of Health to regional and district health authorities to review the health of the population . |
| 10 | The implementation of health policy is devolved by DHSS to regional and district health authorities ( DHAs ) . |
| 11 | Devolution of responsibility from central government to regional and district health authorities may be a good thing , but when this includes the collection and use of important NHS data it hampers monitoring of national programmes like that for modernising mental health care . |
| 12 | Before any Consultation exercise is carried out it is recommended that the accuracy of the contact details of Community Councils and any changes to Regional and District Councillors are checked by contacting : |
| 13 | A variety of multi-activity courses are on offer together with specialist windsurfing courses up to advanced and instructor level . |
| 14 | This has particular advantages where the user requests are not predictable , but is less efficient when compared to hierarchical and network systems in situations where the access paths are predictable . |
| 15 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 16 | In 1910 her The History of English Secular Embroidery appeared and it was followed in 1914 by Furniture in England from 1660 to 1770 and Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770 , albeit both under the name of the fashionable decorator Francis Lenygon , by whom Margaret was casually employed . |
| 17 | A few days later , things settle back to normal and sport is generally excellent . |
| 18 | Water loss is accelerated especially from the intracellular compartment , leading to metabolic and electrolyte disturbance . |
| 19 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there is much more to foreign and defence policy than crisis response , and in these circumstances Congress can play a more meaningful role . |
| 21 | The history of the Community is the history of the pooling of policies previously attributed exclusively to nation states ; so the same may well happen to foreign and security policy . |
| 22 | There was that black future to fend off : there was the endless black past to staunch and help . |
| 23 | The course has a strong practical bias , and seeks to emphasise the value of transferable skills and the need to see ‘ theatre ’ as relevant and topical in its application to social and community contexts . |
| 24 | A contract was then issued to Social and Community Planning Research to carry out the Time Budget Survey and to deposit the data in the ESRC Data Archive for general use . |
| 25 | Giovanni Malagodi ( 86 ) , secretary-general of the PLI from 1954 to 1972 and Treasury Minister in 1972-73 [ see p. 25390 ] , died in April 1991 . |
| 26 | to acknowledge how ‘ well run ’ the wilderness has been ( and presumably would be under the same regime in future ) and how adept their bailiffs and stalkers have been at pursuing ‘ a careful policy of highly selective culling , a scientific approach to hind and calf management . ’ |
| 27 | Neither does it mention the research and testing that can follow or the amount of time devoted to theoretical and documentary investigation . |
| 28 | The subtitle of the book is An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature . |
| 29 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 30 | Of course , such judgments of taste are relative : the new Dent ‘ Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music ’ throws up its hands and declares : ‘ We do not know , and can never know , what the difference between a modern counter-tenor and his Tudor equivalent really was . ’ |