Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm sure that Ted Heath was as prone to that as the rest of us and he had some very able people round him . |
| 2 | That burgh was controlled by Provost John Cunningham , whose son was an officer of the Dutch army , and the provost made his wishes quite clear to one of the candidates who solicited the town 's vote whom he believed might have friends in the Netherlands . |
| 3 | This sort of incident , and all the " in-jokes " we shared , perhaps not so funny to those outside the job , although trivial in themselves helped to keep up morale , and I think were a necessary part of the team spirit . |
| 4 | It is now becoming clear even to those of a partisan view that the culpability of the federal army , which is no longer responsive to any of the organs of the previous state , must bear a heavy responsibility for what is happening . |
| 5 | The Whigs , however , were responsive to some of the movements of change and responsible in relation to the rest . |
| 6 | At the infrastructural level , the highways and transport system of Israel , Gaza and the West Bank were developed in such a way that it became increasingly easy to drive from Israel direct to one of the West Bank Jewish settlements without passing through Arab population centres . |
| 7 | ( Vicky had told me she would not be averse to some of the loving attentions she was receiving . ) |
| 8 | Once fish become totally preoccupied , to the extent that they will ignore all other baits , including natural food , they become so intent on feeding they also become almost oblivious to many of the danger signals , i.e. noise and the disturbance of hooked shoal-mates , that would normally have them scuttling to the four corners of the pool . |
| 9 | Because he had a largely immigrant clientele he was in a position analogous to that of a lawyer in a small town where networks are complex and gossip channels effective . |
| 10 | They are placed in a position analogous to that of a government agency and must ultimately reach a decision on the basis of the public good . |
| 11 | Instead of being a bare trustee his position is analogous to that of a trustee of a settlement of which he is one of the beneficiaries . |
| 12 | For the Canadian model to work , a unitary electorate analogous to that of the UK is required . |
| 13 | Sleeping with the succuba who may be disembowelled but also disembowelling , Eliot 's speaker is in a position analogous to that of the eunuch priest ; poetry like sex here points to horrible death and finds expression for that concept in the language of the rituals of primitive religion and mythology . |
| 14 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 15 | Indeed , there had been , within the Church , a relation more analogous to that of the instituted artists of earlier social orders . |
| 16 | However , as the receiver in exercising his power of sale is in a position analogous to that of the mortgagee , he is not obliged to postpone sale in order to obtain a better price or to adopt a piecemeal method of sale . |
| 17 | In this simple model the Phillips curve assumes a role analogous to that of the budget constraint in traditional price theory : it is the ineluctable constraint which must be incorporated into the maximization procedure . |
| 18 | The same can be said of the United States Constitution , but in Britain there is no body that stands in a position analogous to that of the United States Supreme Court . |
| 19 | The cuticle of the L2 is retained as a sheath around the L3 ; this is important in larval survival with a protective role analogous to that of the egg shell in egg-infective groups . |
| 20 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 21 | Under a contract for work and materials which involves the production of a finished product , it is almost certain that obligations analogous to those in a simple sale will be implied , so that the supplier will be required to deliver the finished product , and the buyer to accept and pay for it . |
| 22 | So there is little check on them , except by referring to clinical case material for prohibitions or actions analogous to those in the tribe . |
| 23 | Russia and the other republics seem to be developing security organizations more analogous to those in the West , with a clear distinction between internal and external security . |
| 24 | The methods used for trigrams are analogous to those in the bigram case except that the transitions are of length 3 . |
| 25 | Details evolve as the tones are worked from light to dark in the visual watercolour fashion . |
| 26 | 4.1.1 The Lead Organization has represented and acted on behalf of the Parties in making an application to IEATP for a Government Grant and shall represent and act on behalf of the parties in the acceptance of such Grant on terms acceptable to all of the Parties hereto including the completion of the project to the satisfaction of IEATP . |
| 27 | Murray 's brief was to travel throughout the country and to assess whether it was possible to construct a consensus around Meech Lake which was acceptable to all of the country 's provinces . |
| 28 | He must know — as I know — that some managers are more acceptable to some of the employees than others and that the employees may wish to follow those managers down this road . |
| 29 | If we had to go to France , that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) , whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced — Not necessarily the Conservative Members who are present , but other Tory Members probably would not be quite so keen on — as they would see it — mortgaging their nuclear future to the French . |
| 30 | Offa had been a powerful king whose interventionist rule was no more acceptable to those outside the Mercian kingdom and its traditional dependencies than that of previous overlords . |