Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 2 | On the contrary , he maintains that such a study might well lead to the extension of one 's regard for one 's own religion to other religions , and at the same time , provide a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 3 | The sudden apparition of the avenging , victorious ayatollah not only astounded the West , it also gave an immense , immediate surge of pride in their culture and in the political power of the religion to other Muslims . |
| 4 | States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage . |
| 5 | to explore the contribution of religion to human identity and fulfilment , both individual and corporate ; |
| 6 | The period has been marked by dramatic swings : from total isolation to wide-ranging programmes of Western emulation , from alliance with imperial Britain to alignment with Nazi Germany , from all-out war against the US to a seeming acceptance of American dominance in the political , military , economic and cultural spheres . |
| 7 | By picking away at every factual link in the chain from furnace to fishless lake , Britain 's electricity industry hoped to avoid any restrictions on atmospheric discharges , whether ‘ arbitrary ’ or not . |
| 8 | Further work is underway to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11 . |
| 9 | It is tempting to refer this accuracy of localisation to qualitative differences within the scale of pressure sensations . |
| 10 | Starvation is out and curves are in — there 's even a National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance . |
| 11 | It is clear that this can have no retrospective effect on the actual forms of association , but it can have important other effects , since in presenting the history of philosophy or painting in this way it suggests forms of identification or association to new contributors . |
| 12 | He devotes one chapter of the book to each of these trends : 1 ) from an industrial society to an information society ; 2 ) from forced technology to high tech/high touch ( this typical jargon describes the increasing importance of human , social and spiritual responses to advanced technology ) ; 3 ) from national economic concerns to world economic concerns ; 4 ) from short-term thinking to long-term thinking and planning ; 5 ) from centralisation to decentralisation ; 6 ) from institutional help to self-help ; 7 ) from representative democracy to participatory democracy ; 8 ) from hierarchies to networking ; 9 ) from north to south ( within the United States ) ; and 10 ) from either-or to multiple options . |
| 13 | Thus , the news values and news judgements which determine the content of the media not only direct our thinking to specific areas which the media define as ‘ important ’ but , conversely , direct our thinking away from other ‘ unimportant ’ areas . |
| 14 | Some governors saw the ‘ native aristocracy ’ as a counterweight to upwardly-mobile Low Country families , many of them non-Goyigama , who had taken advantage of the commercial and educational opportunities of British rule . |
| 15 | Moreover , the unexpectedly progressive nature of the military government which came to power in Peru in 1968 provided an effective counterweight to Castroite arguments . |
| 16 | The strident anti-union bloc of small businessmen , outraged sections of the middle classes , and probably also elements of the non-union working class , was not a sufficient counterweight to organised labour , given the tendency for the management of large enterprises to stand above the fray . |
| 17 | On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . |
| 18 | If the very best single they can come up with is a double A-side featuring Hale & Pace ( Britain 's unfunniest men ) doing ‘ The Stonk ’ , and Victoria Wood stretching that tired Ovaltine and slippers persona to new depths of smugness , then March 15 could be a very depressing day indeed . |
| 19 | There did n't seem to be an artificial persona to Big Black … ’ |
| 20 | It does not entitle the contractor to additional money . |
| 21 | Back down the changing pathway , hazel to laurel , laurel to laburnum , laburnum to high walls , then the bright conservatory and all the long windows of the house ; past the terraces falling leisurely on her right hand , then along the back avenue she was still running and crying . |
| 22 | They see the range of responses from deep and bitter grief to awkward attempts to simulate grief where it no longer has relevance for the relationship . |
| 23 | Dr Sue Jennings , a pioneer in dramatherapy , described how an infertile woman may learn to identify sorrow and rage against the sterile womb which , every month , rejects the fertilized egg : how she can move from passive grief to weeping rage in which she pounds her belly with her hands , railing against its refusal to give a home to the child she desperately wants . |
| 24 | In a forward to Modern Policing ( Pope and Weiner ibid . ) , |
| 25 | Listen with an increased span of concentration to other children and adults , asking and responding to questions and commenting on what has been said . |
| 26 | Bring the stock to boiling point in a saucepan and add the orzo . |
| 27 | The agency also cut Tandy Corp 's subordinated debt and preferred stock to triple-B-plus from A-minus and Tandy Employee Share Ownership Plan 's senior notes to A-minus from single-A , affecting about $1,650m of debt . |
| 28 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 29 | In spite of pressures in providing space for ever-growing collections and discussions of relegating stock to closed access stores , the value of open access has continued to be defended . |
| 30 | Rumours of the dispersal of families and the deportation of good working stock to forced-labour camps abounded ; but this sort of thing happened to other , less educated people . … |