Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The serotonin reuptake inhibitors seem to have similar efficacy to the tricyclic and related antidepressants , but the analysis of efficacy is less reliable than that of acceptability because intention to treat analyses were not widely used , different Hamilton scales were used , and reporting of standard deviation was inadequate .
2 It would appear to be the case that , for this kind of effect to take place , the word 's function must be made available to the syntactic and semantic processes very early on in the access process .
3 To walk to the North Geomagnetic Pole a different location on the map to the geographical and magnetic pole .
4 The Major 's sensibilities were divided between admiration for a man with self-pride and hostility to a man who by defiance might provide a threat to the peaceful and submissive nature of the Zone .
5 This model allowed only semantic analysis , output from the syntactic analysis and feedback to the lexical and syntactic analysis was forbidden .
6 He comes up to me , nods to the burly and unlocks the cuffs .
7 She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions .
8 That left her free to play at being married which consisted of getting herself done up to the nines and visiting her friends all day , now and again taking the baby , all nice and clean , out in her pram .
9 The term syntagmatic was attached by Saussure to the sequential or combinatory relationships that a given language system permits : the relationship between the three sounds , for instance , that make up the word ‘ tree ’ , or the syntactical relationship between the words ‘ the tree is green ’ , and so on .
10 This more exclusivist approach can be seen in some of the proposals embodied in Mr Gorbachev 's Murmansk Initiative most of which was directed to the Nordic and other Arctic states .
11 THE draw for the 1990 World Cup has been kind to the host nation , Italy , but hard on the holders , Argentina , easy on the West Germans and Brazilians and fair to the Scots but mean to Belgium , Uruguay and Spain .
12 It was Charles who , by barring Cumberland 's way forward , really dictated the site , a stretch of open moorland about 500 feet [ 150 m ] above sea level , between the Moray Firth and the River Nairn , five miles [ 8 km ] east of Inverness , known to the Scots as Drummossie Moor .
13 The full supply voltage is applied to the winding and the current is rapidly boosted to slightly above rated .
14 On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it .
15 Well when there is a criminal case does that got to the Islamic or
16 He had been forced to make the move ‘ from the safe haven of the monastery to the tumultuous and wreck-strewn storms of the world ’ , against which he had so often cautioned others ; and there was no release in sight .
17 At Isleten a narrow mountain road ( used by the postbus ) also swings off to the left , running for 19km ( 12 miles ) to the rocky and romantic Isenthal from which the ascent to the ice-capped Uri Rotstock is approached .
18 In Piata Revolutei bullet holes like acne scars riddle the ruined buildings , a grim testimony to the hundreds that died .
19 We took issues of race and sexuality to the Black and gay communities , again and again , occasionally with some success .
20 ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’
21 Worst of all , he was readily confused with another Michael Joyce who denounced a priest to the Black and Tans .
22 Baby loves her rustic life , another letter continued to the black and white sister in Caen : she 's grown into a fine healthy creature .
23 ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs .
24 Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine .
25 The hall in which the manservant greeted them was theatrically lit from the Regency gothic windows of stained glass which threw the early evening sun in coloured patterns on to the black and white marbled floor .
26 The inter-war working-class holiday organizations had occupied a significant place , gradually introducing a previously untravelled sector of the population to the educative and recreative value of foreign travel while yet accommodating a more traditional pattern of holiday-making .
27 Mr. Morgan said to the deceased that he , the deceased , had not yet signed .
28 He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents
29 The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic .
30 The issue of leadership was crucial in this-election ; Carter came across to the voters as a decent man of high moral principles , sympathetic to the underprivileged and of moderate views , but he was not perceived as a strong positive leader .
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