Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 2 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 3 | Student Loans under the Government 's top-up loans scheme are available to full-time students on first degree courses who are under age 50 at the start of their course and satisfy the necessary UK residence requirement . |
| 4 | The GSVQs will be offered from August 1992 as pre-vocational courses at levels II and III to full-time students in colleges . |
| 5 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 6 | Among the Unit 's useful publications are The Conservation Source Book which lists bodies and societies involved in conservation ( ranging from the National Trust to the British Sundial Society ) , price £11.95 , and Training in Conservation — a Guide to full-time courses in the UK price £2 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At first to receptive crowds in Bavarian beer halls , and then across the Federal Republic , Schönhuber peddled his message that the German petite bourgeoisie were the real losers in modern post-industrial society . |
| 10 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 11 | But once the reforms really bite — signs would be a sharp rise in unemployment a far bigger influx of private western investment and radical currency reform — then it would be worth offering the sort of help that could sensibly be given to reforming debtors in Latin America : capitalization of interest payments above a certain share of export earnings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As things turned out Meyer had the satisfaction of being able to point to alluvial sources of nephrite in eastern Switzerland and central Germany . |
| 14 | The remaining properties at Nelson Square could be sold , perhaps as student accommodation , after the move to rebuilt premises on the Pickwick site . |
| 15 | These IBFs exist in domestic branch offices of US banks and will accept time deposits and make loans only to non-US residents in dollars or other currencies . |
| 16 | The volume produced has grown by 60% over the past decade , to 2,157 tonnes in 1991 , according to Gold Fields Mineral Services , a consultancy based in London . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The spreadsheet uses a three-dimensional technique , up to 256 pages of data with each page being 256 cells by 256 cells . |
| 19 | The response to cumulative doses of salbutamol was compared with that to non-cumulative doses of salmeterol . |
| 20 | Each island is subject to economy-wide variations in demand as reflected in changes in the absolute price level for commodities , but news of what is happening on other islands and , by implication , of what is happening in the economy at large , takes time to filter through . |
| 21 | A 10% cut in benefits in the first three months of the unemployment spell reduces the expected duration to 11.98 weeks for this particular individual.15 The elasticities are also slightly higher at the lower benefit levels . |
| 22 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |
| 23 | This brought the total of cannabis seized by Customs and Excise in preceding twelve months to eleven tons with a probable street value of £11,000,000 . |
| 24 | The average length of employment of all labour in 1982 was correspondingly double in Japan at eight to eleven years for men and six for women . |
| 25 | The Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge ( UK ) announced on Aug. 31 that measurements taken on UK nuclear submarines travelling below the Greenland ice cap revealed that the thickness of the ice had been reduced from 6-7 metres in 1976 to 4-5 metres in 1987 . |
| 26 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 27 | They should then move on to inviting questions from the group to clarify understanding , posing questions to test that understanding , drawing implications for the practice and its clients , and developing an action plan to enhance client service in respect of those implications . |
| 28 | With regard to low attainers in particular , the teachers ' comments on the familiarity of pupils with the items in the GT4 reference test ( see Chapter 3 , pp.27–40 ) lend support to this view . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |