Example sentences of "to [noun] [adj] to the " in BNC.

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1 Eradication of H pylori in the duodenal ulcer patients lowered their acid secretion by a median of 66% ( range 30%-80% ) ( p<0.01 ) and to values equivalent to the H pylori positive healthy volunteers .
2 Eradication of TH pylori lowered the plasma gastrin in the duodenal ulcer patients to values equivalent to the H pylori negative healthy volunteers .
3 Section 1(1) refers to dangers due to the state of the premises or things done or omitted to be done on them .
4 When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be .
5 According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates .
6 The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates .
7 By reporting the character ’ s thoughts in the third person , past tense , as in traditional narrative , but keeping to vocabulary appropriate to the character , and omitting some or all of the tags that normally introduce reported speech ( like ‘ he thought ’ , ‘ she wondered ’ , etc. ) an effect of intimate access to the character 's inner self is produced , without relinquishing the task of narrating to the character entirely , as in the pseudo-autobiography or interior monologue .
8 Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo .
9 I have reason to believe that you have relevant information about the affairs of the persons under investigation , and I therefore require you to answer questions or otherwise furnish information to me with respect to matters relevant to the investigation at Elm House , 10–16 , Elm Street , London , WC1X 0BJ on Thursday 13 June 1991 at 10 a.m .
10 By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive .
11 These orders relate partly to training , partly to rights of audience in different courts , and partly to matters peculiar to the internal regulation of the Inns and the dress , appearance and deportment of their members .
12 They do not require an appeal to effects specific to the discriminative stimuli .
13 Recognition of cursive handwriting is especially prone to errors due to the difficulty of determining the correct segmentation of a word .
14 He said that , you 're just , he , he , he said that it 's available to housewives but only if they erm , will be going back to work prior to the claim , but you must be employed prior to the claim .
15 Most of the units would be let to chainstores new to the town , including the anchor store , C and A , which has taken the biggest , two-floor unit .
16 Sugar is positively detrimental to bodybuilding due to the fact that it causes a rise in insulin levels .
17 Thus it is sufficient to know the general location of the participants in order to interpret : ( 25 ) This city is really beautiful and to know the set of potential addressees in the situation in order to interpret : ( 26 ) You can all come with me if you like and to know when the interaction is taking place in order to know which calendar year is being referred to in ( 27 ) We ca n't afford a holiday this year We could formulate the distinction thus : gestural usages require a moment by moment physical monitoring of the speech event for their interpretation , while symbolic usages make reference only to contextual coordinates available to participants antecedent to the utterance .
18 In addition to problems intrinsic to the methodology of platelet function , problems also arise from the diabetic groups studied .
19 According to sources close to the negotiating process , the talks broke apart in May 1989 , when the Panamanian side made it clear that the bases would be shut down — as permitted in the 1977 treaties which call for the closing of all US bases in the year 2000 .
20 This swap-out , however , which the spokeswoman attributed to the processor being kept separate from the I/O , would depend on AST developing one of its Cupid upgrade modules to handle it , according to sources close to the company .
21 He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT .
22 Our surveys indicate that such units would have to be restricted to dimensions appropriate to the Navigation .
23 He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention .
24 If there had been no question of acquiescence in this case , these children would have been returned to Australia pursuant to the order of Thorpe J. shortly after it was made on 20 December 1991 .
25 During its stay on the North Somerset line 3822 took part in the large cavalcades of motive power staged as part of the Taunton 150 celebrations on July 4th and 5th , but will return to Didcot prior to the Autumn Steam Gala weekend of September 26th/27th .
26 Pre-tax profits rose 236.3% to £1.2m , although turnover fell 14.6% to £24m due to the disposal of non-profitable activities .
27 It has now been given a £1 million ( $1.7 million ) estimate by Sotheby 's who will be taking it to Japan prior to the sale , although the market for Constable in Japan is not particularly developed .
28 If we look to laws external to the family we can begin to develop a body of substantive analyses guided by theory .
29 Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners .
30 Patel then drove from his Johannesburg home to Pretoria prior to the Wallabies ' departure for Port Elizabeth to try and rescue the tour .
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