Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is a friend , he has not communicated that fact to any member of the inspectorate . |
| 2 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 3 | Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 5 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |
| 6 | There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other . |
| 7 | I think if you asked that question to any poet he 'd probably give that answer . |
| 8 | ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year . |
| 9 | Most basic building policies do , however , cover accidental damage to underground gas , electricity , oil , water and sewage pipes or cables . |
| 10 | Movements of the fleet , secret meetings at the War Office , and the equivocations of the Prime Minister all lent some credence to this view , but there is no doubt that the Unionists themselves believed it . |
| 11 | Now , in West Caulder th the charge erm amounted this year to forty pound , that 's for nineteen ninety one cos they 're always a year behind . |
| 12 | Like John Marshall and Anthony A Narula , we would like to see improved access to high quality audiological and otolaryngological assessment . |
| 13 | Alan Bray and Jeffrey Weeks have given historical support to this view , though not without qualification ; I remarked in Part 1 some further reservations . |
| 14 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 15 | This has given fresh impetus to European Community moves to base a levy on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 16 | That absence of detail is , however , most surprising , given this sensitivity to living space , for there are almost none of those sustained descriptions that become almost routine in Victorian fiction . |
| 17 | But Scottish Homes have given this job to Scottish land on a yearly basis . |
| 18 | He added that , ‘ Widespread electoral support bore little resemblance to restricted party membership , however , and disappointments were common . |
| 19 | BSE , a disease which attacked the brain and nervous system , was believed to have been passed on to cattle through cattle feed containing the remains of sheep infected with scrapie , a similar disease endemic in the UK for over 200 years which apparently posed little risk to human health . |
| 20 | Though he will be seeking Wissenschaft , he must be taught to relate that knowledge to other knowledge , across a wide spectrum . |
| 21 | Availability of resources and their actual use seem frequently to bear little relationship to each other . |
| 22 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 23 | As presently envisaged , it has little relevance to medical practice in hospitals . |
| 24 | A heavily grazed sward has little resilience to repeated abrasion by walkers ' boots , leading to vegetation , followed by soil , loss over a wider and wider area . |
| 25 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 26 | The masculine-feminine parameter has little relation to homosexual preference . |
| 27 | There were those who might used that access to greater affect than Afshar , some who might have been more ruthless , perhaps , for he was not really an aggressive man . |
| 28 | Ventilation is controlled through ‘ trickle vents ’ which provide fresh air to each room . |
| 29 | Norm referenced measures of learning , always a dominant , presently an overbearing , influence on the education scene , do little to encourage this approach to human development in both student and teacher populations . |
| 30 | Teaching heritage languages during the school day ‘ will guarantee second-class status to any student attending a third language school , ’ wrote trustee Michael Walker . |