Example sentences of "the [noun pl] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that we 're bringing the forms to this form meeting ? |
| 2 | Once these factors are taken into account , together with the tendencies to rapid new entry , intense competition and the high elasticity of demand for eurobonds , it is evident that the balance of advantage is increasingly to the borrower . |
| 3 | Motivated by rather more than just military considerations , the EFA was an exercise in European unity , and was governed by the need to give a ‘ fair share ’ of the contracts to each of the participating countries . |
| 4 | It is of interest to compare the positions of Brumfit and Krashen in this collection , positions which might be said to typify to some degree the attitudes to applied linguistics and language teaching on each side of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | The present inquiry examines in what ways the attitudes to new techniques were affected by unique circumstances of our pioneer industrial revolution ; tries to assess the extent to which Victorian businessmen and their successors failed to comprehend that a continuous regard for new techniques was a condition of survival in a competitive system ; considers the effects of two World Wars on technical innovation ; and presents the achievements and failures in a broad historical context . |
| 6 | Her head began to throb but it eased as Fernando guided her through the crowds to small , quieter side-streets away from the harbour . |
| 7 | Its addition to the superfusate ( 10 - 5 M ) abolished the response of the strips to electrical field stimulation ( n=30 ) ( fig 5 ) . |
| 8 | After isolating those checks for which no good reason , business or not , could be found , management reduced the checks to fewer than 75 . |
| 9 | Levels of government expenditure on education dropped from over 30 per cent of national expenditure and 6 to 7 per cent of GNP in the mid-1970s to 22 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in 1985 . |
| 10 | None of Stotler 's 65,000 customers had lost money when the firm collapsed , because the exchange quickly transferred the accounts to other members and co-operated closely with the CFTC on the case . |
| 11 | If there is a serious departure from these laid down guidelines the auditor may refuse to accept that the accounts are a ’ true and fair view ’ of the financial affairs of the company and accordingly qualify the accounts to that effect . |
| 12 | How should the new surplus be shown in the accounts to 31 March 1993 ? |
| 13 | This resulted in the accounts to 31 March 1989 , which were given a clean audit report , being materially misleading . |
| 14 | Certain items in the accounts to 31 December 1992 have been successfully challenged and earlier years are now being looked at . |
| 15 | Instead of viewing this development with hostility it celebrates the way in which the modern public company has reduced the shareholders to passive property owners , thus freeing the managers from having to act purely in the interests of shareholders . |
| 16 | In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol . |
| 17 | These views are not mutually exclusive , though the dangers to low-use but socially important rural routes could still exist . |
| 18 | For those with ability it is possible to rise through the ranks to senior maître d'hôtel s . |
| 19 | In another analogy , he compared the religions to different paths towards the peak of a mountain , or different perspectives upon the same building . |
| 20 | The dispersal of housing and employment growth from the cities to surrounding counties occurred in many different phases , but has increasingly raised major questions in land-use planning . |
| 21 | For a city the nature of York it is vital , in my view , that public confidence in the greenbelt it 's got to endure for beyond thirty years , that is the case I would share the views to some extent of the York City in that , and which I I certainly read into ma'am , your , two of your questions , what happens beyond two thousand and six ? |
| 22 | It also allowed for a renewable one-year freeze on challenges by the courts to six ordinances related to the maintenance of law and order . |
| 23 | Although the doctrine was created in the course of a somewhat panicked reaction by the courts to bogus claims of national security peril asserted by the Government , it has subsequently been exploited by private corporations wishing to keep their secrets under wraps . |
| 24 | In view of the approach taken by the courts to this implied term it is probably fair to regard it as imposing on the seller a separate obligation to pass to the buyer a good title to the goods . |
| 25 | The additional information contained in the notes to each chapter is invaluable , and , like the rest of the text , intensely readable , human and lively . |
| 26 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 27 | Rhythmic designs which relate the notes to one another in time . |
| 28 | The notes to this Law make it clear the course of action to be taken : ‘ It is a question for the referee whether or not a series of the same offences by different players of a team amounts to repeated infringement . |
| 29 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 30 | He tried to export the birds to several countries , and has been allowed to import them by the British despite strong reservations from the Spanish authorities and concern expressed by conservationists . |