Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay you , I mean is any of this of any use to you ? |
| 2 | Large tanks permitted the Sprinters to run longer ( up to 1,000 miles ) between the need to refuel , and maintenance visits to home depots were reduced from the two or three times weekly of older DMUs to fortnightly . |
| 3 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 4 | They found that less than one-half of total lending to industry in the UK had a maturity of less than one year in 1980 , with a similar percentage for France and West Germany , and an even higher one for Japan . |
| 5 | It was resolved that the attendance of the physician and the surgeons should be given free of all expense to the institution , and that each should be allowed the privileges of a governor by virtue of their appointments . |
| 6 | It is today less dismissive of other approaches to the study of social life and has found a niche as a specialized way of analysing how people make sense of , construct , and confirm their world-view and their way of life . |
| 7 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 8 | A number of smaller PC makers have been forced to pass on at least some of that increase to their customers . |
| 9 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 10 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |
| 11 | In terms of the Government 's general strategy on economic policy matters , it would be appropriate for some of those issues to be raised in Wednesday 's debate . |
| 12 | I recently put some of these questions to Joanna Turner , who 's a psychologist who 's special interest is the development of young children . |
| 13 | The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information . |
| 14 | While it would be possible to restrict the use of some of these functions to particular staff , all are within the comprehension of the first time user . |
| 15 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |
| 16 | Some of these drawbacks to external validity diminish with the age of the twins being studied . |
| 17 | It has conducted an assessment of the various statistical packages for the manipulation and analysis of large-scale hierarchical data sets and has applied some of this work to the dissemination of very large , government-generated data sets ( see below ) . |
| 18 | It 's to start saving money and give some and give some of this money to their private sector friends . |
| 19 | Another of many criteria to be identified could be the subsequent or continuing costs , economic and social , of proceeding with a particular treatment . |
| 20 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 21 | It was to be the source of seemingly endless conflict for centuries to come , and it is still the greatest of all impediments to human progress . |
| 22 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 23 | Although the substance of the issue contained little of specific interest to me , I was surprised by some thing in the letters section from a Mr Paull of Clapham . |
| 24 | Following the announcement by CEGB in 1980 of five sites to be investigated as possible locations for a new nuclear power station in South West England , the investigator surveyed the attitudes and beliefs concerning energy issues , and nuclear power in particular , held by residents of the communities most closely affected by these proposals . |
| 25 | In 1762 the Langdale bailiff for Lord Muncaster was paid on two small accounts , 3s. for 6 journeys to the copper mines , and 1s. for each of 3 visits to the mines . |
| 26 | But above all , we can trace each of these inferences to the facts that trigger them , namely , aspects of the form and juxtaposition of the utterances themselves , and we can go on to specify the regular principles that , given such aspects of utterances , produce the inferences in question . |
| 27 | The most fundamental of these is for the field to be divided into quadrants by a central cross , and for each of these segments to be decorated with the same design . |
| 28 | Among the qualities for which Bashó0 's haiku are revered are ‘ a desire to use every instant to the uttermost ; an appreciation of this even in natural objects ; a feeling that nothing is alone , nothing unimportant ; a wide sympathy ; and an acute awareness of relationships of all kinds , including that of one sense to another . ’ |
| 29 | Sensitivity was defined as the ratio of true positives to true positives plus false negatives ; specificity as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false positives ; positive predictive value as that of true positives to true positives and false positives , and negative predictive value as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false negatives . |
| 30 | Sensitivity was defined as the ratio of true positives to true positives plus false negatives ; specificity as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false positives ; positive predictive value as that of true positives to true positives and false positives , and negative predictive value as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false negatives . |