Example sentences of "of [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using more than planned : Time and again the family member gives more time and money and other forms of support to the primary sufferer than he or she can afford or than was intended . |
| 2 | Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses . |
| 3 | SAVE and other local and national bodies can support you by making direct contact with the local planning office and writing letters of support to the local press and planners . |
| 4 | After delivering his message of support to the organic movement at Cirencester , he held a seminar at Kensington Palace to air the issues , and he and John Higgs subsequently went down to Elm Farm to investigate the possibilities of employing organic methods on the home farm . |
| 5 | The major forces of change to the farmed landscape arise primarily out of the post-war agricultural policies which have encouraged the specialisation and industrialisation of farming practice and a more intensive use of farm land . |
| 6 | Second , there appeared to have been an evening-out of change , with the mixed/pastoral farming areas recording similar rates of change to the arable areas , partly because arable farming had markedly expanded into these areas during the period from 1972 to 1983 . |
| 7 | To promote goodwill TODAY will give a bottle of champagne to the three most uplifting and inspiring ‘ Best of 1992 ’ lists . |
| 8 | Her eyes looked absurdly dark , like hidden pools , half hidden by that bright curtain of hair to the watching man . |
| 9 | The sun also carried a message of hope ‘ whispering of fields unsown ’ this could be seen as analogous to the light from the candle in ‘ The sentry ’ which represented a symbol of hope to the blind soldier . |
| 10 | Cut out the same number of widths of interlining to the finished curtain length . |
| 11 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , the enthusiasm for protecting everything ‘ natural ’ is too often misplaced and can lead to unnecessary confusion in the minds of a large population of consumers who actually owe their lives , their health and an enviable standard of nutrition to the responsible use of pesticides , medicines , preservatives and other ‘ artificial ’ chemicals . |
| 13 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 14 | At a more detailed level considerable variations are possible from model to model , such as the exact ratios of hydrogen to helium and of hydrogen to the other substances . |
| 15 | Social work practice with these families should concentrate on constructing a framework of security from the matching stage onwards , and this must mean delegating the maximum degree of responsibility to the new family to do things their way which the law allows . |
| 16 | Mr Chambers said that innovative technology would have to be combined with a transfer of responsibility to the best people and organisations able to develop and produce oil and gas reserves . |
| 17 | In this debate , we are confronted with a squalid abdication by the Government of responsibility to the British people . |
| 18 | We , of the Rupert Bear generations , may not have retained our innocence but we surely have a duty to keep a sense of responsibility to the next generation . |
| 19 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 20 | The system of Military Councils , extending from the Chief Military Council of the Ministry of Defence to the Military Councils at Military District level and below . |
| 21 | A weak interaction between knowledge sources necessarily gives a hierarchical flow of information from one level of description to the next , as activation proceeds bottom-up through the system . |
| 22 | The cost of underwriting claims , such as the massive bomb in April which caused over £800m worth of damage to the Baltic Exchange and the headquarters of the Commercial Union in the City of London , had proved too great . |
| 23 | Although there is unequivocal evidence of damage to the intestinal smooth muscle in chronic radiation enteritis , we are unaware of any studies of intestinal motor function in chronic radiation enteritis in either animals or humans . |
| 24 | Daily , repeated exposure might not become apparent until years later , in one or another form of damage to the nervous system . |
| 25 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 26 | The infections and cancers which characterise AIDS are a late consequence of damage to the immune system . |
| 27 | There are various causes of damage to the inner ear — for example , exposure to loud noise . |
| 28 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 29 | These and other findings — reported at a meeting of the American Society of Testing and Materials — contradict extensive evidence of damage to the local environment presented by government researchers over the last four years . |
| 30 | A. mandible from barn owl assemblage with intact ascending ramus ( ×10 ) ; B. mandible from long-eared owl assemblage with broken ascending ramus ( ×8 ) ; C. mandible from short-eared owl assemblage with cracked ascending ramus and missing coronoid process ( ×9 ) ; D. same with inferior angle broken ( ×19 ) ; E. mandible from Verreaux eagle owl assemblage with broken ascending ramus ( ×9 ) ; F. mandible from tawny owl assemblage with broken coronoid process and the beginning of damage to the inferior border ( ×6 ) ; G. mandible from little owl assemblage with missing ascending ramus and broken inferior border exposing the incisor ( ×6 ) ; H. mandible from tawny owl assemblage with extensive damage to ramus and inferior border ( ×9 ) ; 1 . |