Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | From the Green Quarter strike north another half mile along a road and then go eastwards along a bridleway to Sadgill in the slender valley of Longsleddale ( 2 miles ) . |
| 2 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 3 | Commenting on its most recent losses ( page five ) Advanced Logic Research Inc , Irvine , California said that more price competition reduced its turnover , and that its gross margin for the latest six months was just 14% compared with 22% in the year-ago period ; the impact of the reduction was partially offset by cost-cutting programmes , and its cash position improved by $5.5m to $35.1m during the latest six months while the company simultaneously cut bank debt $7m . |
| 4 | There was a welcome boost to morale at the Sussex-based charity Friends of the Young Deaf when WCUK Maidstone marketing manager , Kim Taylor , presented a cheque for £1,000 on behalf of the George Wimpey Charitable Trust . |
| 5 | The invitation , in front of Mr Yeltsin 's wife , Naina , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York , is seen as a boost to relations between the Royal Family and Russia . |
| 6 | Promotions give a boost to sales in the competitive market and support the overall marketing plan together with good quality , competitive prices , and excellent service — everything that Stoddard Templeton stands for . |
| 7 | There would be a boost to industry from the greater net disposable income , and at no cost to the consumer in need , because VAT does not apply to food and necessities . |
| 8 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ agreed Mildred , dragging the cat from her front and reducing the cardigan to shreds at the same time . |
| 10 | And that 's how Pelican managed to boost profits by an astonishing 173% to £357,000 in the six months to end September , despite a more pedestrian 35% rise in turnover to £3.83m . |
| 11 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |
| 12 | The government 's annual Social Trends figures show sport the only serious rival to TV among the young , and gardening and DIY among the middle-aged ( especially men ) . |
| 13 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 14 | Disenchantment with orthodox approaches is , in fact , bringing a number of new recruits to homoeopathy at the present time . |
| 15 | His rent would go up from £20,000 to £48,000 under the new leasing system . |
| 16 | Mrs Thompson said her rent would go up from £20,000 to £48,000 under the new leases . |
| 17 | 2.1 Following detailed discussion at the Council 's Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee , it has been decided that SCOTVEC should now proceed beyond the pilot programme to implementation of the new system : it was felt that the work to date on the pilot courses has provided enough experience to confirm the adoption of the Policy Paper 's principles as the basis of the new operational system . |
| 18 | The moral opposition to boxing in the late twentieth century , which is essentially a continuation of an old Nonconformist hostility bolstered by science , is weakened by the popularity of men like Henry Cooper : 'Enry , the Londoner , the decent , gentle bruiser , who almost knocked out one of the greatest heavyweights of all time , but now prospers as a TV celebrity playing golf for charity or advertising deodorants . |
| 19 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | Bukharin , one of the leaders of the Left opposition to Lenin on the national question , embraced the idea and brought to its exposition his formidable talents . |
| 21 | He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff , ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East . |
| 22 | Basically , it removes a few people from the live register of potential opposition to Sam on the female front . |
| 23 | In January 1937 it patched together a new ‘ united front ’ campaign in association with the ILP , the Communists , the Left Book Club and Tribune , around a programme of defence for the Spanish Republic , opposition to rearmament by the National government , support for the struggles of the unemployed and the affiliation of the Communist Party and the ILP to the Labour Party . |
| 24 | His job is to stamp out opposition to Bonaparte within the French Empire . |
| 25 | Ever since opposition to drainage in the seventeenth century , the men of the Cambridgeshire fens were known as ‘ fen tigers ’ . |
| 26 | Their attitudes were shared by their priest-sons , who in their turn were supported by Rome , whose solid opposition to socialism until the 1960s was very clear ( e.g. Pope Leo XIII , 1903 ) . |
| 27 | If managers fail to ensure this confident grasp — together with an equally confident openness to questions about the future needs of their learners — they will betray the ideals of that type of schooling which requires the co-operation of partners rather than the criticism of consumers . |
| 28 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |
| 29 | When France asked the Sultan to make concessions to Catholics in the Holy Land , both parties knew that Russia would object . |
| 30 | In the context of a reported shortfall of 35-36,000,000 tonnes of food and feed grain for 1991 , a residential decree , effective from July 1 , aimed to improve the food supply by giving concessions to enterprises in the agro-industrial sector . |