Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 In addition to the separate criteria related to men and mechanisms there are others to do with information acquisition , storage and presentation focussing on the interface design which has its own design criteria .
2 In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) .
3 Such changes must depend on the spread of education , which widened expectations and brought a more rational and secular mood inimical to the traditional values opposed to contraception .
4 To revert to the afflicted generations referred to earlier , the intolerance with petulance and ill-temper to which they were subjected was often perpetuated by non-commissioned officers in Her Majesty 's Services who , in their own inimitable way , took things a step or two further .
5 We have 250 copies to give away to the first readers to write to Noilly Prat Booklet Offer , .
6 We have 500 booklets to give away to the first readers to write to John West/1H , Gramby Marketing Services Ltd , School Lane , Denham Maasey , Altrincham , Cheshire WA14 5SZ .
7 The disdain spilled over and spread to the other commuters scurrying to their cars .
8 I gestured to the low hills rising to the west of his police station .
9 Expanded review under the hard look doctrine can serve to reinforce such ideas , by ensuring that adequate consideration is accorded to the differing views presented to the agency .
10 The jaw proximal to the adoral shields appears to be recessed into the mouth .
11 To achieve self-realisation , and to get in tune with the cosmic force , the New Agers are introduced to the oldest techniques known to pagan man .
12 The article concluded that the frequency of positive responses to the injected extracts appeared to be the result of suggestion and chance and hence the method was not scientifically valid .
13 Nor have I referred to the minor changes made to the 1987 regulations in 1990 and 1991 , which have already been applied in the accounts of most societies and will be familiar to their preparers and auditors by now .
14 Increasing resistance to the alien forces led to the clashes and controversies described in an earlier Chapter .
15 Minford , Ashton and Peel ( 1987 ) have pointed to the massive distortions caused to the housing system by government intervention including the effects of the Rent Acts , the subsidization of council house rents , the subsidy to owner-occupiers through mortgage tax reliefs , and planning restrictions on housing land .
16 This applies to the different attitudes taken to war , to which Gandhi himself was implacably opposed .
17 It has been suggested that the different findings in these studies were due to the different techniques applied to the collection of blood samples .
18 Moreover , there can be many bats and small-to medium-sized mammals ( arboreal ) from the smallest marsupials to the smaller monkeys , in contrast to the larger mammals confined to the forest floor where food is always scarce , and therefore there are fewer species of them .
19 The counsellor should help the counsellee decide on the most appropriate response to the main factors contributing to ill-health .
20 And I 've tried to stay true to the original recipes given to me by members of my family , even though some of them wo n't be very popular — I think the brains and chitterlings [ pigs ' intestines ] recipes are of historical interest only ! ’
21 According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors .
22 What took place was a widening and deepening of consumption so that goods previously confined to the wealthier classes came to be purchased next by the middle-income ranks and then , to some degree , by the lower .
23 This attachment to the historical counties led to tighter boundaries for the metropolitan areas and to the maintenance of some boundaries which separated major urban centres from their surrounding region .
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