Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 2 | The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ . |
| 3 | And while childbearing by teenagers in the 15–19 age group does not appear to carry excessive health risks in the more advanced nations , in some of these countries , the risks to personal well-being can be considerable . |
| 4 | This development raises important policy issues for bank regulators , in particular because of the possible additional risks to individual institutions and to the banking system as a whole . |
| 5 | But , once more , the qualifications were liberally added : ‘ as long as the individual is active and capable of carrying out the required duties ’ ; and ‘ where risks to other persons are involved ( eg driving ) , then adequate checks on ability should be made . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 7 | Employers are also obliged to assess the risks to pregnant women and protect them from those risks and adjust working conditions and hours of work to protect their health and safety . |
| 8 | Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . |
| 9 | Editor , — B G Evans and colleagues conclude the discussion of their paper by stating , ‘ Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . ’ |
| 10 | The World Health Organisation , the Food Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and the Joint Expert Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency all agree that food irradiation poses no risks to human health . |
| 11 | In its report , the GAO said that while there were no direct risks to human health from BST , the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) had failed to take account of indirect effects in its assessment of the hormone , a genetically engineered product which increases milk yield . |
| 12 | It will have three major goals : i ) promoting sound , consistent national pesticides registration procedures ; ii ) sharing the work of re-registration of old pesticides ; iii ) reducing risks to human health and the environment associated with pesticide use . |
| 13 | Despite its own doubts about the feasibility of the plan and the risks to low-flying aircraft from Serbian missiles , Downing Street said Britain was playing a full part in flying aid into Sarajevo and in convoy escort . |
| 14 | In 1992 support activities have extended to encompass all areas of the voluntary sector from the Arts to Zoological research . |
| 15 | SUCCESSORS to one-arm bandits , fruit machines have to pay out 70p for each £1 slotted in . |
| 16 | ETHIOPIA : Ruling Democratic Front , successors to Marxist dictator Col Mengistu , face civil war from armed tribes in the East . |
| 17 | ‘ I must stress that we can detect these signals with my machine and we have already managed to give certain characteristics to certain signals — joy — frustration — sorrow , etc . |
| 18 | George Orwell put these characteristics to imaginative use in his book Animal Farm , in which top pig Napoleon became the Stalin of the muckyard . |
| 19 | It is characterized by a tendency to stereotype , that is , a tendency to assign identical characteristics to whole groups regardless of individual variations ( Twitchin and Demuth , 1985 , p. 170 ; Aronson , 1980 , p. 197 ) . |
| 20 | But Fred finds it hard to take a ‘ line ’ on anything , from pets to ethical shopping and which TV programme to watch . |
| 21 | So we spent the whole afternoon in aimless beer-drinking and student ragging , singing student songs to stamping feet and clapping hands . |
| 22 | ( Three songs to vernacular texts in carol form , surviving in an early sixteenth-century volume of courtly and devotional songs and attributed just to ‘ Brown ’ , are probably by a different composer . ) |
| 23 | An insect with a primary infection on a leg can easily spread spores to other locations simply by brushing the infected appendage against other parts of the body , and non-sexual contact with an infected individual can also initiate infections in randomly-scattered locations . |
| 24 | But his first probes to local schools met with an enthusiastic response . |
| 25 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 26 | It likes to rent its chalets to whole groups travelling together for £500 to £1,000 each half-board — not cheap but a bargain for what you get . |
| 27 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 28 | But it is as Anne Rice that she is most accessible , writing about history and horror with everything from eighteenth-century castrati in Venice and Scottish demons to Egyptian mummies in Edwardian England . |
| 29 | In the past the Commission has used informants to good effect . |
| 30 | Davison and is confident of treating his home-town fans to historic victory in Wales ' first world title fight for 25 years . |