Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their gift as mental giants , the Sensorites are physically quite innocuous — small , corpulent and soft-spoken , they have extreme aversions to loud noise and darkness . |
| 2 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 3 | to loud music and a drench of tears , |
| 4 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 5 | Some potato varieties are more susceptible to enzymic browning than others . |
| 6 | But about half of the 200,000 people who fall into either of those categories go on to full-time education and become entitled to student relief of the community charge . |
| 7 | Usually these ‘ cooperative ’ placements are temporary ; successful placements lead , it is hoped , to full-time employment and the identified job is then made available for another placement . |
| 8 | She also maintains she would never consider going back to full-time employment and advised other women with good business ideas to ‘ go for it ’ . |
| 9 | She preferred laughter and skylarks to solid endeavour and while she could be noisy she shied away from being the centre of attention . |
| 10 | At the same time , pipe an anchor on to non-stick paper and leave to dry . |
| 11 | LODGEPOLE PINE : Similar to Scots Pine but with darker , straighter needles . |
| 12 | Set up by WSR Managing Director Mark Smith and Association Chairman John Pearce as a thank you gesture to Beamish Museum and the WSR 's workers involved in the rally , the trip by ‘ Locomotion ’ was a fitting end to a summer of celebrations on the WSR following the Taunton 150 events of last month . |
| 13 | Go through your seven to ten-day diary and compare what you actually eat with the kinds of food we recommend in Chapter 4 . |
| 14 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 15 | No , because I thought wicked you know , I 've for Monday I get to bloody fucking lie in bed and then like I have to go to flipping school and bloody give it back . |
| 16 | Though the expressed aim of this policy was to improve efficiency , ministers went to considerable lengths to make sure that private firms could compete on favourable terms , in the end to little effect since private firms succeeded in gaining only one in four contracts by 1990 ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 17 | Well , they were n't going to bloody stop because the foot sign was lit , not with the hold-all full . |
| 18 | I said yes who 's got to bloody wrap and weigh it up then ? |
| 19 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 20 | Averaged out , the trainers clearly gave much greater weight in selecting future teachers to oral proficiency and experience of the country whose language would be taught , and much less to written proficiency , knowledge of literature or linguistics , the referee 's report , or experience with children ’ ( Gold , 1985 : 11 ) |
| 21 | The offence extends to oral misdescription and is not necessarily confined to a contractual relationship with the customer ( Fletcher v Sledmore [ 1973 ] RTR 371 ) . |
| 22 | This uses the picture on the screen as a stimulus to oral production and helps you check the language your learners already have at their command . |
| 23 | A government committed to the principles of choice , ownership , responsibility and opportunity ; committed to low inflation and low taxes ; committed to better quality and value in our public services ; committed to strong defences . |
| 24 | The Government remained committed to low inflation and would keep to strict public spending limits . |
| 25 | Members , for example , of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , the leading forum for the discussion of ideas concerning social reform , recognized in the late 1860s that the London labour market , at least , was overstocked leading both to low pay and irregular employment at the lower end of the working class . |
| 26 | Shumskiy ( 1957 ) defines antarctic oases as substantial ice-free areas separated from an ice-sheet by an ablation zone , and kept free from snow by ablation due to low albedo and radiation . |
| 27 | Production was highest in August , decreasing in late autumn to low winter and spring levels ; rates were quoted as ‘ quite high ’ even in temperatures close to freezing point . |
| 28 | This ability to tie up the excess hydrogen ions introduced by acid precipitation is largely determined by the composition of the bedrock on which the lakes and soils form , with hard , impervious igneous or metamorphic bedrock giving rise to low calcium and magnesium content producing the most susceptible situation . |
| 29 | All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate . |
| 30 | Number of disks included in application package — this figure could also include data as to low density or high density disks . |