Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small interim rise to profits of £300m is due on Tuesday for food and drink group Allied-Lyons which has just got the go-ahead for the merger of its brewing interests with Carlsberg . |
| 2 | He 's the sea captain in charge of this sinking ship whose character switches from Mr Nice Guy to raging megalomaniac to hero of the day — all in less than two hours . |
| 3 | Given Aitken 's fervent support for the Biafrans , it is not unfair to assume that any suggestion of confidence that was not specifically expressed would have been dampened in his mind , since the publication of the document in his view would lend strong support to critics of the government 's policy . |
| 4 | Israeli response to deployment of Moslem militias in southern Lebanon |
| 5 | PLANS for a hotel and leisure development at Bodelwyddan Castle are moving ahead , but officials face strong opposition to part of the package . |
| 6 | Not least , perhaps , the mariner 's story spoke of man 's tragic and childlike vulnerability to forces of destruction both from within himself and beyond . |
| 7 | The greatest changes have occurred in the average salary of candidates placed — from £25000 to £70000 — and in the firm 's international links , which have extended from two European offices to membership of the globally spread E. S. International Group . |
| 8 | This could expose willing states to charges of being unduly harsh or lenient in their treatment of prisoners and open to acts of reprisal or terrorism from sympathisers of those imprisoned . |
| 9 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 10 | CHARLES DARWIN in an uncharacteristically generous donation to scientists of later generations , left an unsolved problem . |
| 11 | Realist science is a means of conceptual discovery based on the movement at any given level of analysis , from manifest phenomena to knowledge of the structures and mechanisms which generate them … . |
| 12 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 13 | A second instrument of control is the direct subordination to Moscow of the Armed forces and security services , making it possible to bypass the national leadership . |
| 14 | We have a cultural attachment to images of the ‘ rugged individualist ’ and the ‘ sharp shooters of the old west ’ . |
| 15 | Rats were given repeated exposure to presentations of a light in context A and were also familiarized with a different context ( B ) in which no stimuli were presented . |
| 16 | He argues that in the absence of diminishing returns to production of the intermediate or final good , or some element of product differentiation at intermediate or final levels , or the need for a firm 's intermediate product division to be held to being competitive , then vertically integrated firms will not participate in the intermediate good market . |
| 17 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 18 | This , the clearest public indication to date of Mr Mandela 's views on talks with the government , emerged from an Independent interview yesterday with Albertina Sisulu , who , together with anti-apartheid leaders , met Mr Mandela at his prison house for four hours on Tuesday . |
| 19 | Older people were much more likely to give high ratings to politicians of all kinds and , to a lesser extent , to parties of all kinds . |
| 20 | Often the swim bladder is involved in receiving sound and will act as an acoustic amplifier to sounds of the right resonant frequencies . |
| 21 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend is aware of the clear advantages to patients of fund-holding practices . |
| 23 | The difference between public responses to perceptions of bias in the press and on television was reflected in the complex relationship between voters ' allegations of bias and their ratings of the ‘ usefulness ’ of the press and television news . |
| 24 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 25 | There may be promises that it will be paid back in three months , in direct proportion to clearance of outstanding client debts . |
| 26 | Taking in part a similar line , the Civil Justice Review has recommended staff training to enable court staff to give direct assistance to members of the public in the handling of their cases . |
| 27 | Bonhams press officer Jill Potterton told Dogs Today : ‘ We are happy to give free evaluations to members of the public who come to see us . |
| 28 | The host raised an interesting topic — ‘ the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication ’ : Johnson , who does not mention this conversation , uses the word ‘ infamy ’ and relates sexual morality to laws of property . |
| 29 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 30 | Different arrangements reflect cultural responses to perceptions of environmental constraints and opportunities , perceptions which may alter as the environmental context changes , thereby provoking changes in the cultural system too . |