Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very lonely people turn to the tranquillising help of alcohol particularly , according to psychiatrists , men who live alone . |
| 2 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 3 | If this is so , then we shall almost certainly get a cookbook , and the standard-setters will be doomed forever to the thankless task of blocking , after the event , all the ingenious but undesirable accounting schemes that the wit of man can devise . |
| 4 | Reflecting local interests and expertise , the project will focus on the analysis of point maps , and will emphasise applications to the geographical distribution of disease . |
| 5 | This included an increased degree of autonomy for Quebec ( and any of the other provinces which sought it ) through the proposed transfer of numerous powers and areas of responsibility from the federal to the provincial sphere of government . |
| 6 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 7 | The JC pronunciation is [ la : ] — in other words , it belongs to the lexical set of THOUGHT , not NORTH . |
| 8 | Having dealt with the methodological preliminaries , we can now turn to the evolutionary scheme for kinship systems presented in The Origin . |
| 9 | Sometimes this divide is expressed in geographical terms by reference to the widening gap between North and South . |
| 10 | All attendance allowance beneficiaries aged under 65 and all mobility allowance beneficiaries will transfer automatically to the equivalent level of disability living allowance . |
| 11 | In Treseder-Griffin v Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd [ 1956 ] 2 QB 127 the rent reserved was £1,900 " either in gold sterling or Bank of England notes to the equivalent value in gold sterling " . |
| 12 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 13 | Equations ( 6.18a ) and ( 6.18b ) set a variational problem that is solved in the standard way in Appendix A. It is shown in Appendix A that eqn ( 6.18 ) is the integral form of the geodesic equation , and is entirely equivalent to the differential form of eqn ( 6.8 ) . |
| 14 | Poetry was the starting point for Formalist literary theory , and it lent itself in a very obvious way to the differential definition of literariness . |
| 15 | To the feral reek of buffalo , horse and fowl and the sour remains of human nourishment was added suddenly a smoky , faintly ammoniac odour of female flesh , entirely new to him . |
| 16 | He was clearing the ground , dispatching his previous writing to the putative immortality of volume form before he began seriously to concentrate on the work to come . |
| 17 | Resistance to the EEC-funded search for uranium began with the anti-nuclear movement but quickly developed , in the major area being prospected , Co . |
| 18 | Differential game theory is applied to various theoretical models and , eventually , to the empirical model in order to discuss the gains of coordination and issues of credibility and reputation . |
| 19 | The dynamic forms of these moduli are more difficult to arrive at and we must retrace our steps to the three-element model in order to introduce the concept of complex modulus . |
| 20 | To the short-wave end of violet we have ultra-violet , X-rays , and the extremely short , highly-penetrating gamma-rays . |
| 21 | This increased use of imprisonment is not a direct response to any rise in crime , but is an ideologically motivated response to the perceived threat of crime posed by the swelling population of economically marginalised persons . |
| 22 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 23 | Such a rendition seems broadly typical of von Dohnányi 's rigorous approach to standard orchestral fare , cutting through to the perceived essence of music where the stodge and surface glitter are in fact part and parcel of the intended appeal . |
| 24 | The increased interest of larger companies in the contact lens industry has had several effects , including a move away from lenses made by lathe cutting in prescription houses from polymer blanks , to the in-house control of material manufacture , lens fabrication and the supply of finished lenses by a smaller number of larger concerns . |
| 25 | IN referring to the Chilean Order of Merit awarded to Mr Harold Pinter , Mandrake ( March 29 ) stated that this is the first time the honour has been bestowed upon a playwright or , indeed , upon an ‘ intellectual ’ of any description . |
| 26 | We 're supposed to the better style of play . |
| 27 | But , if they give up , they ca n't really contribute to the better quality of society . |
| 28 | The proposed directive goes to the European Parliament for comment and amendment , where the lobbyist will brief and advise the MEPs . |
| 29 | In 1983 a further report to the European Parliament by M. Vandewiele reinforced enthusiasm for Community support of a fixed link , and in 1984 the Round Table of European Industrialists added its voice to the campaign to upgrade Europe 's transport infrastructure . |
| 30 | In addition to those sources which your membership of the Institute of Translators and Interpreters may supply , you might also consider referring to the European Directory of Management Consultants and the Executive Grapevine as organisations listed in these publications operate a recruitment facility . |