Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its respective champions were personified by the Permanent Secretary , Sir Douglas Wass , an entrenched mandarin prone to statements like ‘ We 're all Keynesians here ’ , and Mrs Thatcher 's new army of private advisers , monetarist apostles like Terry Burns and , from 1981 , Alan Walters . |
| 2 | It is simply due to the fact that these little hotels have remained faithful to habits dating from 1840 or so . |
| 3 | Now I 'm sure the minister , councillor would like us to be more efficient and he would like us to be more responsive to tenants needs so let's do what the minister ask would like us to do and vote against this conservative amendment . |
| 4 | Being responsive to parents does n't mean the development of a situation where ‘ parent always knows best ’ about the education of the children and the way that the school should be run . |
| 5 | So to combat the problem Kew Bridge Steam Museum has devised a series of children 's trails which will be available free to children visiting during August . |
| 6 | This includes many trekking centres , who , too often subject to disparaging remarks , can be well run and given decent horses often provide the best way to explore rugged terrain , highly unsuited to fasts riding . |
| 7 | Moreover , issues of law may be referred to the visitor which are wholly analogous to questions decided by the courts . |
| 8 | The bureaucracy is more analogous to groupings found in traditional societies , such as estates , than to class , with the fusion of economy and politics ; the authoritative allocation of positions in a hierarchy of ranks ; and the specification by rules of the duties and privileges corresponding to rank . |
| 9 | ( These are analogous to slopes calculated from a resistant line . ) |
| 10 | This is analogous to complexes involved in transcriptional activation , when several proteins bind to the DNA and interact with each other to form higher-order complexes . |
| 11 | The proactive approach is best suited to identifying strategic acquisitions where a purchaser is prepared to pay a fair price , whereas the reactive approach is more suited to acquirors looking for opportunistic sale situations . |
| 12 | For much of the population , numbed by defeat , the reforms were initially tangential to efforts to maintain a basic standard of life , but while the reforms themselves were accepted with considerable resignation , none could remain untouched by their effects for long . |
| 13 | Business ethicists have not helped their case by couching their arguments in language that is foreign to managers schooled in the lexicon of finance and economics . |
| 14 | Tablets which look like the sweet Smarties but are be harmful to children have been lost in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | The section on Italian animals is particularly interesting to visitors intending to spend a day or two out of town . |
| 16 | Concepts of social movement are therefore synonymous with problems of social change , for they are antagonistic to conservative beliefs ; and this gives a further insight into why the idea of social research is antithetical to police thought and has seditious connotations for an institution in which metaphors of stasis are of paramount importance . |
| 17 | This is similar to systems used in many public and academic libraries and eschews the need for each pupil to have separate library tickets . |
| 18 | The distinction is similar to others made by contemporaries between what subsequent jargon would call ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ societies — for instance Sir Henry Maine 's formula summarising the progress of society as ‘ from status to contract ’ . |
| 19 | They are also similar to coaches described as being in use on the Brecon & Merthyr Railway . |
| 20 | The percentages of children in the present study who had detectable neutralising antibody against poliovirus types 1 , 2 , and 3 after three doses of OPV are similar to percentages reported from other developing countries , and contribute to the increasing evidence that routine vaccination with OPV at 6 , 10 , and 14 weeks of age might leave many children susceptible to infection . |
| 21 | The following remark , for example , made in the realization that physics was both something less and something more than an objective body of knowledge , was very similar to remarks made by the arts students about English : |
| 22 | The gang produced a sample of two kilos of PE4 — similar to explosives used in the Gulf War . |
| 23 | An X-ray camera , similar to ones used in hospitals , provides a picture of the solid metal and other materials that survive beneath the corrosion , and gives an idea of the original shape of the object . |
| 24 | Adduct levels ranged from 0.7 adducts/10 nucleotides to 29 adducts/10 nucleotides , which is similar to values reported for other tissues . |
| 25 | Nilsson ( 1949 ) points out that the Phaistos daemons are similar to daemons shown on Babylonian and Assyrian amulets , believing that the Minoan daemons were simply copies of these foreign monsters . |
| 26 | Similar to agreements signed by Poland and Czechoslovakia with Germany , it provided binding protection for the 100,000-strong German ethnic minority in Romania . |
| 27 | Dysphagia among our patients was similar to figures stated after similarly modified fundoplication . |
| 28 | They were closely similar to cars supplied to Bath and the South Lancashire systems at around the same time , three windowed double deck cars with flat internal ceilings . |
| 29 | The Persian Gulf proposals were an outgrowth of the sponsorship of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean by the Non-Aligned , while the Mediterranean proposals were similar to ideas developed by the Mediterranean non-aligned states . |
| 30 | It was only one of the staff 's repertoire of tasks and when necessary was exercised through a combination of ‘ orchestration ’ and ‘ supervision ’ , similar to techniques described by Bloor ( 1987 ) in his analysis of social control in a therapeutic community . |