Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem has become very apparent in recent months at Humberside , where the beacon ‘ HBR ’ on frequency 350.5 kHz has at times been almost unusable due to interference from the NDB ‘ LPL ’ at Liverpool on 349.5 kHz . |
| 2 | It will be easier to judge this prior to play in the open area around the clubhouse than on a wooded course . |
| 3 | When the rules take full effect at the end of 1992 , banks will have to back every commercial loan with capital equal to 8% of the loan 's value ; half of that must be share capital or disclosed reserves ( ‘ core ’ capital ) . |
| 4 | East London was especially fortunate due to proximity to the largest concentration of wealth in the country , the remainder of London . |
| 5 | The composition of any casting is not homogeneous due to variations in the specific gravity and solidifying temperature of different elements , so one sample can not be representative of the |
| 6 | The effect of the section is to make the principal responsible to investors for the business carried on by the appointed representative . |
| 7 | That prior to despatch of the Information memorandum we have the right to renegotiate the fee scale triggers should it be apparent that there has been a significant decline in land values . |
| 8 | Some preventive rules , together with endangerment offences , can be seen in a variety of other situations , but nowhere is there such a detailed and fairly widely known set of standards as that applicable to drivers on the roads . |
| 9 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |
| 10 | Below a height roughly equal to the diameter of the rotor , the model will be very lively and difficult to keep stationary due to interference between the ground and the downwash from the rotors . |
| 11 | The disadvantages of the compact are a tendency to overexpose the negative due to reflections from the ground , and the ergonomical designs of the camera bodies , which often place the firing button where it is awkward to arrange a plunger . |
| 12 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 13 | There are other areas such as 12″ singles , TV advertised albums and various mail order clubs which are all subject to negotiation between the record company and artist . |
| 14 | A right-wing paper made Alliance identifiers 3 per cent less favourable to Kinnock and 8 per cent more favourable to Thatcher by the end of the campaign , and once again there was some evidence of a trend . |
| 15 | Reading a right-wing rather than a left-wing paper made Labour identifiers 6 per cent more favourable to Thatcher and 6 per cent less favourable to Kinnock by the end of the campaign though the effects were smaller before that . |
| 16 | Luther held that it was " better to obey a prince doing wrong than a people doing right " , and he drew a sharp distinction between things spiritual and things temporal ; between the rules and values appropriate to the inner life of the soul and those appropriate to life in the fallen and sinful external world . |
| 17 | Immediately following the accident it was discovered that the instrument in Charfield box bore this out and investigation showed that the distant arm was slightly inclined due to debris in the signal wire but not sufficient to show a green light through the spectacle plate . |
| 18 | Its colour was described as ‘ full red with smoky points ’ : the red shaded to black on the face and tail . |
| 19 | The term can however be a little misleading due to difference in the resolution of the computer screen and that of the page printer . |
| 20 | Its size and shape shows it is ‘ one of the posterior ribs of a small cetacean similar to species of the modern dolphin genera Tursiops or Lagenorhynchus . ’ |
| 21 | Biblical scholarship has made enormous advances during the last forty years , aided immensely by the discovery of new primary sources , material unavailable to researchers in the past . |
| 22 | The government is making £40 million available to councils over the next three years for the funding of recycling schemes . |