Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , other measures of pairwise probe distance/similarity may prove to be better-suited to future applications than the maximum-likelihood distance used here . |
| 2 | To an anthropologist , the conscious creation of a culture by management is amusing , because all human groups have culture by nature , and these systems of values and beliefs are shaped by experience , tradition , class position , and political circumstances — all powerful forces that are extremely refractory to directed change , particularly by occasional committee . |
| 3 | Pouchitis usually responds well to treatment with antibiotics , but in a small subset of cases the inflammation is clinically severe , endoscopically atypical , and relatively refractory to conventional treatment . |
| 4 | Patients with complex partial epilepsy refractory to medical treatment , and who had been assessed for epilepsy surgery , were studied between April , 1989 and October , 1992 . |
| 5 | Although there are several possible explanations for these findings as reviewed by Skaer ( 1981 ) , it is possible that some α-granules may remain refractory to secretory stimuli . |
| 6 | You 'll be faster , less bothersome to other parties , and wo n't spend the whole climb in mortal fear of tripping up on your own rope ! |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The roots below are whitish to black , according to the age of the plant . |
| 9 | All this to modern eyes looks like , and indeed very often was , mere selfish defence of local and sectional interests . |
| 10 | Let me say this to Labour Members : if for one moment they feel uneasy about the document , let us have the alternative that they have tabled ; let us know where we stand . |
| 11 | This study will be concerned with the theory of categories related to the substance of language and to each other by scales , which M.A.K. Halliday put forward in 1961 , and to the detailed description of English constructed by Halliday and others on this basis , and with the application of this to spoken and written texts . |
| 12 | May also want to limit this to certain named Vendors only . |
| 13 | The traditional bourgeois ethic , puritan or secular , had ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect , for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business , and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth and still less ‘ sound ’ views . |
| 14 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 15 | [ They ] attribute this to primordial helium … being released … |
| 16 | But to ascribe this to male chauvinism would n't be accurate either . |
| 17 | When I have , on occasion , remarked upon this to other company wives , their reaction has been one of near disbelief , followed by looks of passionate envy . |
| 18 | Although SynOptics already participates in Management Information Base testing for interoperability with NetView/6000 , it says that it is planning to expand this to other management elements such as remote monitoring — RMON , and SNMP Version II agents . |
| 19 | Greenfield has attempted to apply this to other cultures , using questionnaires given to Wolof children to establish an empirical basis for the distinction ( 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 21 | Since 1976 , the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has assumed responsibility for the monitoring programme in Western Europe and subsequently extended this to Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | set this to right , we must stop |
| 23 | In a sense , Richard consolidated the supremacy of the Christian cavalry which El Cid had established over Islam in Spain and he proved this to great effect in the running battles which followed the siege of Acre . |
| 24 | Ciccolini is capable of very stylish virtuosity and shows this to great effect in the more extrovert pieces to which he also brings genuine humour ( as opposed to the archness which spoils so many performances of Satie 's music ) . |
| 25 | An infinitary rule based on syntactic approximation extends this to general programs . |
| 26 | It then relates this to possible course contents . |
| 27 | Sixty per cent claimed that this was done through traditional subjects , although few related this to actual school practice . |
| 28 | Relating this to actual flows , is restricted by the severe simplifications in deriving the equations , although there have been some experiments showing interesting behaviour . |
| 29 | This to ordinary mortals seems quite inaccessible but it has been climbed , the first ascent being in 1967 . |
| 30 | And you must discover ways in which you can link this to ordinary people 's concerns . |