Example sentences of "and [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colic and sore to pressure , worse ( < ) after eating and better ( > ) heat . |
| 2 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 3 | Amphibians are particularly vulnerable to hot and dry conditions because their skins are so delicate and permeable to water . |
| 4 | ‘ I am fit , ’ he persisted , holding Llewelyn fast by the sleeve , for he was apt to flash away from armoury to store and stable to council chamber disconcertingly upon his universal errand of supervision . |
| 5 | Dramatic shifts in political support ( from Conservative and Labour to Alliance ) and in housing markets have accompanied incoming waves of professional and white-collar workers . |
| 6 | The grant level reduction announced by MAFF on 11 December 1984 constitutes a major change brought about as a result of wanting to reduce public expenditure and due to concern for the conservation of upland landscapes and wildlife . |
| 7 | Following Tadpole Technology Plc 's flotation on the UK Stock Exchange last December ( CI No 2,064 ) and due to interest shown in its shares in the US , the Cambridge-based company intends to appoint US financial advisors with a view to obtaining a New York listing for its shares in American Depositary Receipt form . |
| 8 | Following Tadpole Technology Plc 's flotation on the UK Stock Exchange last December and due to interest shown in its shares in the US , the Cambridge-based company intends to appoint US financial advisors with a view to obtaining a New York listing for its shares in American Depository Receipt form . |
| 9 | The SCI chips — made by Vitesse Semiconductor and due to prototype this Autumn — are claimed to deliver a sustained 1Gbps bandwidth between component nodes ; Dolphin highlights its ability to be used both for tightly coupling processors ( up to 1,000 RISCs ) to memory ( up to 100Mb ) and input-output , and for loosely coupling distributed workstations and other subsystems , at backplane bandwidth . |
| 10 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 11 | His shock resignation was shrouded in mystery , although at the time his reasons were given as being ‘ personal and due to family matters . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , excuse me , Mrs Sutherland , but a kid with no ma , no pa but they 're both alive , living near by and rich to boot , while some matron , fine though she may be , is paid to take care of him and he works vacations ? |
| 13 | A child who is enabled to cope well with a parent 's illness , say , may well become more competent and resilient to adversity in the future . |
| 14 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 15 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 16 | Yet despite nearly 150 years of Western contact Japanese people are still regarded by non-Japanese as group-oriented , lacking individualism and prone to authoritarianism . |
| 17 | This type of hair tends to be naturally dry and prone to breakage , so it requires special care . |
| 18 | There is also a recommendation to make SHAs , the majority of which are single-specialty hospitals and prone to isolation , part of a major hospital complex . |
| 19 | Some of these phrases relate to a particular teaching style ( the project approach , the integrated day ) ; some refer to organisation ( ‘ all-through ’ comprehensives ) and some to architecture ( open plan with resource areas ) . |
| 20 | You know , you went there and there was fiddling and singing and dancing and eating and drinking and this to Party time all the way . |
| 21 | Concerned about his influence , and afraid to beard the sultan himself , " the vezir Mahmud Pasa " consulted Fahreddin Acemi who , having heard for himself the Hurufi 's heretical words , denounced him in Mehmed II's presence . |
| 22 | The idea behind it is to cover practically every graphics eventually in one integrated bundle , with loads of fonts and clip-art to boot . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) It shall be the task of the all-German legislator to introduce regulations no later than Dec. 31 , 1992 , which ensure better protection of unborn life and provide a better solution in conformity with the constitution of conflict situations faced by pregnant women — notably through legally guaranteed entitlements for women , first and foremost to advice and public support — than is the case in either part of Germany at present . |
| 24 | Within the course half the time would be allocated to a compulsory core curriculum and half to self directed learning . |
| 25 | It seems to be generally agreed that this is in some way ‘ special ’ , and peculiar to English . |
| 26 | Connery 's endorsement of a political creed has brought something brand new and risky to politics in Britain : the heavyweight celebrity as politician . |
| 27 | Of the 51 species of Chisocheton ( Meliaceae ) , in Malesia for example , one species is restricted to peat-swamp forest and another to limestone , while , in dipterocarps , Shorea curtisii is always found on ridges and slopes apparently associated with particular water relations in the forest . |
| 28 | There are , I believe , two common layouts — in one case there is just one main fuel tank , athwartships and attached to the for'ard bulkhead , with a generator or generators on one side of the engine and batteries on the other , plus a water-tank to port and another to starboard : or there could be a fuel tank on either side with the water-tank up front . |
| 29 | Using a voltmeter , one probe in the tank and another to earth , he found around 60V AC present in his tank . |
| 30 | Blackberry scrambled up into the fern and then returned to the top of the bank , fidgeting nervously and half-inclined to bolt at nothing . |