Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move is spearheaded by former MP Tony Favell , who lost his seat to Labour in the General Election . |
| 2 | The Smiths , on the other hand , provided fantasies of innocence to those in the process of leaving behind their adolescence . |
| 3 | A small tidal range : the Mediterranean , Black Sea and Caspian Sea bear witness to this in the Nile , Rhone , Po , Danube and Volga deltas . |
| 4 | It is high time that the Opposition gave recognition to all in the service who have achieved these excellent results . |
| 5 | [ music ] There is a corollary to this in the curious offset notes and phrases of the vocal melody which lend a kind of speech colour to the basically simple tonal language , while giving mobility to the harmony ( a change of direction in an unaccompanied vocal figure may lead unceremoniously to a change of key ) . |
| 6 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 7 | Classical Greece replaces pagan Russia and there is , in this ‘ melodrama ’ bursting at the seams with symbolism , even a detectable Christian message : André Gide 's poem , derived from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( Earth Mother ) , has the Goddess Persephone ( her daughter ) accepting self-sacrifice to bring love and pity to those in the Underworld . |
| 8 | Drift-netters wishing to move from fishing grounds in the Tasman to those in the South Pacific would not be allowed to pass through New Zealand waters without risking confiscation of their vessels and a substantial fine . |
| 9 | There is a passage of great beauty and relevance to this in The Favourite Game ( pp116 ) , in which Breavman reflects on his family , its prominent position , and its meaning : |
| 10 | A final set of influences come from that oral tradition , I call it ‘ survival teaching ’ , handed down by one hard pressed disillusioned teacher to another in the face of long hours , poor conditions and low recognition . |
| 11 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 12 | Even more remarkable , perhaps , that this branch of the Titfords was to make only two significant moves from one place to another in the entire 400-year period from 1547 to 1947 : first leaving Bratton for Frome in 1625 , then settling in London from the late 1790s onwards . |
| 13 | Figure 2 A neuron simply transmits information from one place to another in the brain , but its trigger feature determines what pattern it responds to , and its projective zone determines where news of the occurrence of this pattern is sent . |
| 14 | Users sampled through networking showed a similar polydrug profile to those in the known sector , with two important exceptions . |
| 15 | Cash greatly impressed in defeating 25th ranked David Wheaton , and then by taking Lendl to 7–6 in the 3rd set in the final . |
| 16 | They differ from ordinary genes in that they can move from one site to another in the chromosome . |
| 17 | The Pakistan duo had smashed 61 runs from just nine overs , taking the score to 135–2 in the 31st over , when Imran called for a cheeky single … |
| 18 | The initial impressions of the Italian reform of 1978 suggested a similarly disappointing outcome to that in the USA . |
| 19 | The ratio of drop out rate of patients in the serotonin reuptake inhibitor group to that in the tricyclic and related antidepressant group ( odds ratio ) was calculated for each study . |
| 20 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 21 | Sportsmanship might be an old-fashioned concept to many in the modern game but it has to be protected . |
| 22 | Of all the approaches the latter is likely to succeed the best as they are leaving all the clever stuff to those in the know . |
| 23 | Every department is having to carry out market tests and exercises to compare costs of the internal service to that in the private sector , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The House of Lords found that there were circumstances in which liability could be incurred for negligent misrepresentation by one person to another in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship between them . |
| 25 | Or quarter to two in the morning , there were only two you could come back on . |
| 26 | quarter to five in the morning |
| 27 | You 've got to be at school by quarter to nine in the morning . |
| 28 | It was quarter to nine in the morning and it was Oliver speaking . |
| 29 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 30 | It was quarter to eight in the morning . |