Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it is not possible to differentiate between a hilar stricture caused by focal sclerosing cholangitis from one resulting from a cholangiocarcinoma , or a distal stricture due to cancer of the pancreas from a stricture caused by chronic pancreatitis . |
| 2 | Moreover , despite setbacks due to intervention from the environmental and conservation lobby which have been sustained by the Secretary of State for the Environment , retail and office development interest remains strong . |
| 3 | The scale of the damage was in part due to deforestation in the area , which meant that the torrential rain was not absorbed by trees and vegetation . |
| 4 | Within each of these age groups , the difference between the ‘ observed ’ and ‘ age standardized ’ bars gives that change which is not attributable to changing numbers in the age group , and the difference between the ‘ observed ’ and ‘ age/sex/marital status standardized ’ bars gives the change attributable to changes in the headship rates for each marital status of each sex , at each age , i.e. to factors other than the change in the numbers in each age , sex and marital status group . |
| 5 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 6 | This move had reportedly been prompted by pressure from Shehabuddin Ahmed who , on June 5 , had offered to relinquish his post as acting President due to differences with the government which in turn , he claimed , had undermined national unity . |
| 7 | There is the feeling of ‘ dis-ease ’ inside the penis due to inflammation of the urethra , which is aggravated by passing urine , and there is the discomfort which is felt at the tip of the penis , which is a manifestation of the inflammation at the urethral meatus . |
| 8 | Gd-DTPA behaves in a manner similar to the iodinated contrast medium used in computed tomography , thus tumours in the brain show enhancement due to destruction of the blood/brain barrier and other organs in the body , such as the liver , show enhancement of normal parenchyma . |
| 9 | Because they were specialists , the welfare rights officers rapidly became skilled and knowledgeable in interpreting regulations as they applied to mental handicap and established valuable ‘ precedents ’ as time passed , but obtaining adequate benefit support nonetheless became more difficult in the closing phase of our research due to changes in the social security system . |
| 10 | The obstacle to optical fibre communication is lift loss due to impurities in the glass . |
| 11 | The force due to Hz upon the current element in loop 2 is in the radial direction . |
| 12 | The forces acting on the 30 mg masses along the Sun-Earth axis are the gravitational attraction of the Sun ( ) , the centrifugal force due to motion around the sun ( ) , and a pull from the balance ( F ) . |
| 13 | By 1937 " appeasement " had become a term acceptable to supporters of the National government . |
| 14 | Negotiations are going ahead for booking top personalities like Johnny Mathis , Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr to appear at the club subject to approval by the licensing authorities . |
| 15 | Likewise , regulations imposing anti-dumping duties ( which are in certain respects akin to decisions in the field of competition ) also tend to comprise long and relatively detailed statements of reasons in their preambles . |
| 16 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 17 | Lane u : cells irradiated with 60 Joules of UV light prior to isolation of the nuclei ( incubated as for control cells ) . |
| 18 | After coming back magnificently from two goals down with 20 minutes remaining , two goals gifted to Reading in the last five minutes consigned Darlington , who dominated the game , to defeat and left them without a win at home in two months . |
| 19 | Yet , on the one hand this contradiction has been hidden by privileging Gregory 's comments and neglecting the importance of the Epistulae Austrasiacae and the writings of Venantius Fortunatus ; on the other , it has been explained by the apparent lack of educational opportunities available to Gregory in the households of Nicetius and Avitus . |
| 20 | Their object is to make measurable data available to managers in the areas of decision-making , planning and control especially . |
| 21 | Besides the statistics discussed above , there is a rich source of data available to sociologists among the many personal and public documents that exist in a literate and record-keeping society . |
| 22 | Fear and reward are the two most powerful influences available to man for the purpose of controlling the resistance to the civilising process , the resistance being an inevitable product of evolution . |
| 23 | NORTHERN Ireland shipping services to Great Britain and jobs face a threat from new EC funds available to ports in the Republic , Unionist MPs warned today . |
| 24 | Since the early 1950s the Soviet workforce has , in the main , found its jobs by methods familiar to workers outside the state socialist economies : advertisements at the factory gate , in newspapers , by word of mouth . |
| 25 | In spite of the limitations imposed by TV 's greed for bandwidth , the past 15 years have seen considerable developments in the shape of the TV business and in the number of channels available to viewers with the right equipment . |
| 26 | The TC approach uses all communication channels available to children without the counter-productive forceful insistence on the use of more defective channels . |
| 27 | EGF is also found in ‘ a novel cell lineage containing neutral mucin ’ in the stomach and intestine adjacent to ulceration of the mucosa and in many gastrointestinal tumours . |
| 28 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 29 | Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives |
| 30 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |