Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stronsay fish mart in the fishing time was really a busy place with the salesmen busy selling the herring to the curing stations . |
| 2 | I 've found with my own teaching that if a player wants to move away from a purely diatonic mode of improvising , their initial steps are dogged by their own reaction to the chromatic tones , by perceiving them as sounding ‘ wrong ’ somehow . |
| 3 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 4 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 5 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 6 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 7 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 8 | Both were provoking a spectacular confusion of signs — ‘ quality ’ , the ‘ finer things in life ’ restored to the avant-garde hipsters who , like ABC , ‘ know what trash is ’ . |
| 9 | It gives off paired nerves supplying their respective appendages and may also connect with the corpora allata and contribute to the labral nerves ( Willey , 2962 ) . |
| 10 | Erriquez was eventually released to the Syrian authorities in West Beirut on Aug. 13 . |
| 11 | The reason for this was that his real name was probably known to the Syrian forces controlling Beirut airport , and certainly to the pro-Syrian Christian Lebanese Forces under Shamir Geagea who controlled the port of Jounieh and had already threatened his life after the NBC broadcast . |
| 12 | Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness , it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi ( eastern European ) Judaism , who followed the Palestinian traditions ( as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud ) : Israel ben Eliezer ( Leonard 's spiritual forebear , after whom he was named ) — an 18th century Pole , the founder of the Hasidic movement ; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard , his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein . |
| 13 | This demise shall not confer upon or be deemed to include ( by implication or otherwise ) in favour of the Tenant any right of light or air liberties privileges easements or advantages ( except such as are specifically granted in this lease ) in through over and upon any land or premises adjoining or near to the demised premises . |
| 14 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 15 | In other words , most translators prefer to give priority to the syntactic principles of the target language rather than to the communicative structure of the source text . |
| 16 | Let us apply this account to the syntactic structures of a natural language undergoing the process of evolution which it is only reasonable to suppose has taken place . |
| 17 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 18 | Their similarity to the preceding cases is that they seem to fall within an accepted canon of traditional wordings ( one , incidentally , which as Ulpian shows is also subject to extension by analogy ) . |
| 19 | The Tuxedo discs begins with the rather pedestrian Preludio 2 by Raffaele Calace ( ‘ father of modern mandolin playing ’ , according to the informative notes in the Amon Ra release , where more music by Calace , equally dull , is to be found ; Tuxedo , by contrast , seems to have cut back on fees for notewriters ) . |
| 20 | The response of the security forces to the peaceful demonstrations had been generally restrained , but on July 23 , following several unsuccessful attempts by the opposition to take over government buildings and install its " ministers " in office , Ratsiraka declared a state of emergency , including a night-time curfew , and issued warrants for the arrest of opposition leaders . |
| 21 | LISBURN Borough Council is to donate £2,500 to the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council to help send a team to the 1994 Games in Canada . |
| 22 | By degrees the new mores spread from St Petersburg and Moscow to the provincial cities and in time affected the humblest noble homes . |
| 23 | The logical alternative was to promote the " ministerial " principle by strengthening the chain of command which led from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the provincial governors . |
| 24 | These entirely estimable men , among whom the prime movers are Curnonsky , Marcel Rouff and Count Austin de Croze , set to work compiling their wonderful catalogues and books concerning regional dishes and products , and their guides to the provincial restaurants where such things are served . |
| 25 | Considerable decentralization of federal authority to the provincial governments is provided by the 1987 Meech Lake Accord [ see p. 35451 ] currently awaiting formal ratification . |
| 26 | Although they were held in the shadow of the assassinations of President Ranasinghe Premadasa and an opposition leader , Lalith Athulathmudali , and in sharp contrast to the provincial elections held in 1988 , not a gun was fired . |
| 27 | The process is also being extended to the provincial museums . |
| 28 | His conclusion , probably acceptable to most parliamentarians , is that Ukraine should ratify START 1 now , but should hold on to the 46 missiles which that treaty does not cover ( though the Lisbon protocol does ) , and delay accession to the NPT . |
| 29 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 30 | Arising from PAB , Council accepted amendments to the disciplinary regulations for a procedure for dealing with certain complaints against members , where a full investigation by a Disciplinary Committee is not published . |