Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] to [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar lava lakes to that of Halemaumau have been reported from many strange places : two of the most active volcanoes in Africa , Nyamlagira and Nyiragongo , have both had persistent lava lakes at different times in their history . |
| 2 | That crisis coincided with the beginning of an economic crisis , which saw south-east Texas in particular transformed within two years from one of the boom areas to one of the depressed areas of the USA . |
| 3 | From this it followed , among other things , that molecules had a shape in three-dimensional space , and the brilliant German chemist Kekule ( 1829–96 ) , in the very Victorian situation of a passenger sitting on top of a London bus in 1865 , imagined the first of the complex structural molecular models , the famous benzene ring of six carbon atoms to each of which a hydrogen atom was attached . |
| 4 | Further , as will be seen below , the interpretation of the duty of the directors sanctioned by the traditional legal model forbids the subordination of shareholder interests to those of non- owners , though as will also emerge it is arguable that there may now be an exception to this principle . |
| 5 | By applying water management techniques to three of its production plants , ICI Australia has achieved a 40 per cent saving in water use at its Botany site over the last two years . |
| 6 | It may also have different siting relationships to some of these than the purely exploitative patterns indicated above . |
| 7 | They say it would be cheaper because it would avoid the difficult tunnelling terrain of waterlogged sand and gravel which has prevented the building of Tube lines to much of south London . |
| 8 | The borough estimates that recyclable waste amounts to 20,000 of the total 80,000 tonnes generated annually . |
| 9 | HERE JACKIE HAYDEN TALKS TO TWO OF THE JUDGES FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION , DERMOT O'SHEA , ART EDITOR OF THE IRISH TIMES AND COLM HENRY , IRELAND 'S LEADING ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE CLIENTS INCLUDE U2 AND HOT PRESS , ABOUT THE COMPETITION IN PARTICULAR AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN GENERAL |
| 10 | The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy . |
| 11 | Prue Stevenson talks to some of them . |
| 12 | Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees . |
| 13 | you know , there 's no vow there , but all we do is join hands together , share blessings to both of us , and no vow , we never make any vow but they made a blessing for us . |
| 14 | Rather less attention is paid in statistics books to some of the more common or misleading numerical traps that can radically alter the meaning of management data . |
| 15 | The aim is to reduce pollution levels to those of the 1930s . |
| 16 | This user has access privileges to all of these modules at any time . |
| 17 | This user has access privileges to all of these modules at any time . |
| 18 | D'Indy even adds apparently obbligato lines to some of the vocal items . |
| 19 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 20 | The year 1990 brought progress on our new buildings in the Hodgkin Quadrangle , and signal distinctions to some of the Fellows , though the results in the Final Honour Schools were disappointing . |
| 21 | The problems arise from the need to apply quality control procedures to each of the various levels in the system , to interactions between levels and to inputs from central services and institutional context . |
| 22 | In this volume we are in part trying to draw out the links that tie the assumptions involved in policy debates to some of the grim realities that affect local communities in contemporary city life . |
| 23 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |
| 24 | The curators ' muse here is Diana Vreeland , whose ‘ editorial verve ’ , the curators say , took the Costume Institute ( made part of the Met in 1946 ) from an assemblage of theatre costumes to one of the world 's largest collections . |
| 25 | The original pilot college , Telford , is now extending its APL Service from the three early pilot areas to all of its nineteen Teaching Groups . |
| 26 | Talks in Whitehall aimed at restoring trade union rights to thousands of workers have collapsed after months of secret negotiations . |
| 27 | Talks in Whitehall aimed at restoring trade union rights to thousands of workers have collapsed after months of secret negotiations . |
| 28 | Some hostility or distress on the part of the dementia sufferers to some of the memory testing or depression questions , and to the performance tests , had been anticipated ; but on the whole this was not found to be the case . |
| 29 | Computer Science is a practical subject and , at Edinburgh , students are fortunate in having the opportunity to use systems ranging from single chip microprocessors to some of the world 's highest performance parallel processing systems , with much of their work being carried out on a distributed system of UNIX-based workstations . |
| 30 | Curators at the Pompidou Centre are anxiously awaiting the results of negotiations between Russian museums and the eighty-nine year old Russian heiress Irina Shchukin over property rights to twenty-five of the 130 paintings in the exhibition ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ running until 21 June . |