Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of these patients who were refractory to H 2 antagonist treatment required treatment with omeprazole and one of them ( No 7 ) eventually needed a highly selective vagotomy . |
| 2 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following differentiation to endoderm like cells . |
| 3 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following retinoic acid-induced differentiation ( 34 , 35 , 36 ) . |
| 4 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 5 | As affectivity is the most obscure side of man , there has been the constant temptation to resort to it , forgetting that what is refractory to explanation ipso facto unsuitable for use in explanation . |
| 6 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
| 7 | T n tracts are refractory to enzyme cleavage . |
| 8 | Other sites produced DNase I footprints and enhanced reaction with diethylpyrocarbonate but were refractory to cleavage . |
| 9 | e , pH o , as in a , but polarizing from +7 to -70mV , in the presence of 100μM L-glutamate or D-aspartate. f , Data in e normalized by the extra uptake currents produced by the +7 to -70mV voltage steps ( 162 and 54pA for L-Glu and D-Asp ) . |
| 10 | Expenditure on Central Office , district offices and the London office doubled from £32,466 in 1909–10 to $68,957 in 1913–14 ; the total expenditure of the party organization from central funds also doubled from $73,000 to over £150,000 . |
| 11 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 12 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 13 | His men are as tough as they come , but they do n't do things like this to women . ’ |
| 14 | It appears that , despite the way he first introduces the topic of personal identity , his detailed interest is not so much in what makes a person the same over time , but in the sense one has of oneself , one 's past deeds and actions , and the relation of this to questions of moral praise and blame . |
| 15 | The right wing of the party took this to heart : Gaitskell talked of the need to shed Labour 's ‘ cloth cap ’ image and attempted to ditch the famous clause four of the party constitution , the charter for nationalisation , as an electoral liability . |
| 16 | I 'm going to give this to Rojas now . |
| 17 | They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much . |
| 18 | My personal view , and I must emphasise that I have n't discussed it with John , is that we should not be offering a general horticultural advice service to all and sundry , but that we should restrict this to areas where we have recognised expertise — Alpine & Rock Gardens , Arboriculture , Glasshouse cultivation and others . |
| 19 | He handed this to Quentin . |
| 20 | Sophia commented on this to Ianthe who was sitting in front of her . |
| 21 | As a parting pleasantry , I reported this to Mrs Brown , our Cardington Road billetor . |
| 22 | ‘ And you told all this to Mrs … the woman in London ? ’ |
| 23 | They now wanted to explain all this to Mrs Singh and hoped that I would be able to explain the implications of what they were going to say . |
| 24 | Oh give this to Mrs cos I walked off with it yesterday |
| 25 | Liberal Democrats will alter the licensing conditions for water companies to extend this to groups of domestic consumers who live on large estates and in sheltered housing complexes . |
| 26 | When we put this to MacDonald , he claimed that since Dr Mykura 's departure AMS has made ‘ significant ’ advances . |
| 27 | But I do n't mention this to Richardson . |
| 28 | How 're you doing ? ’ — this to Maxim over Agnes 's shoulder stretching out a big hand ’ you must be Major Harry Maxim . |
| 29 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 30 | Let me put this to Geoffrey Hoskin , Professor Hoskin we 've heard of a people ruled by Tsars and then by , is there going to be any thing but anarchy now ? |