Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , in formal terms the identity of the employer has not changed , but in the organisational terms stressed by the Court in Rask and in terms of the sorts of objections to the new controllers that the employees in Katsikas had in mind , the formal answer goes very little distance to meet the substance of their points . |
| 2 | Obviously it was n't the money that made the difference : what was important was the fact that the wealth opened up all sorts of possibilities to the lucky children that simply were not available to adopted children of poorer parents . |
| 3 | The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government . |
| 4 | If consent were not successfully produced and reproduced , this could ultimately affect the condition and prospects of the economic base , not least by making a great deal of difference to the likely success of the revolutionary struggle . |
| 5 | Leftist Unity is targeting its campaign on the big industrial cities , such as Madrid , Barcelona and Valencia , as well as the region of Andalucia , where centuries of serfdom to the local noblemen have left the working class with a strong streak of radicalism . |
| 6 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 7 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 8 | A loss of adjustment to the 24-hour day |
| 9 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 10 | October by the French , at Agincourt , with fearful loss of life to the French troops , and Henry V became a legend . |
| 11 | Again , removal of one of the aromatic rings of the substituted benzhydryl ( L705081 ) results in a loss of sensitivity to the chemical nature of the residue at position 197 ( Table 2 , and Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 12 | He gave warning that complacency could easily result in slippage of standards and loss of sensitivity to the complex needs of children and their families . |
| 13 | Most ominously , Mr Gorbachev faces a drastic loss of revenue to the central budget from the rebellious republics . |
| 14 | These governments fear a vast loss of revenue to the low-rate neighbour countries if these limits — so-called ‘ travellers ’ allowances ' — are abandoned . |
| 15 | The plan was rejected because it would result in an unacceptable loss of light to the High Altar of the RC Church next door . |
| 16 | The more that a loss of sales to the second group is compensated by a grant paid by the first , or the more the revenues for the provision of a service to individuals come from grants , the less likely is the bureau to be concerned for consumer interests and , hence , efficiency . |
| 17 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 18 | As a result of challenges to the previous practice , both in the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights , telephone tapping has been subject to legislation since 1986 . |
| 19 | The main spending areas within the £13.4 billion budget for 1993-94 include £3.7 billion for health ; education will rise to £1.2 billion given the extra responsibility of funding all higher and further education in Scotland while £141 million will be made available for agriculture as a result of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 20 | In recent years , partly as a result of exposure to the American literature and partly because of a desire to adopt a tough-minded approach towards power , British social and political scientists have increasingly been on the look out for signs of a similar system in Britain . |
| 21 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 22 | The scheme forms part of the Ecu62 million second phase of the EC 's programme of assistance to the nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The tour was part of a programme of visits to the outlying areas of the Russian Federation [ for visit to north see p. 38876 ] . |
| 24 | Aneurin Bevan was only able to defeat the opposition of doctors to the National Health Service in 1944 by buckling together a compromise with Lord Moran , president of the Royal College of Physicians , ‘ stuffing their mouths with silver ’ , and promising to respect their independent practice . |
| 25 | In a speech at the end of February to the Royal Society of Arts , Renton suggested that the role of the central Arts Council should be reviewed when the delegation of powers to the Regional Arts Boards ( RABs ) is complete . |
| 26 | An openness of mind to the European religious reaction against liberal Protestantism , represented especially by Karl Barth . |
| 27 | These policies should be particularly aimed at adjusting the ratio of the nominal stock of money to the absolute price level since , following Modigliani ( 1944 ) , the origins of general excess supply can be traced to a ‘ misalignment ’ between the money stock and the levels of money wages and prices . |
| 28 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 29 | She thought of the chin as a thing apart , and ran her thumbs down the fold of flesh to the short neck . |
| 30 | In early August , in a dispute between the PKK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP , based in Iraq ) , the PKK prevented the trucking of supplies to the Kurdish-controlled area of Iraq , via the Habur bridge north of Zahko , Iraq . |