Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors . |
| 2 | To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors . |
| 3 | ‘ Too well paid , ’ called Sergeant Lothar to loud laughter from the gathering crowd . |
| 4 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 5 | Ringing sounds in ears , vertigo , sensitivity to loud noise , sounds seeming very distant . |
| 6 | There are various causes of damage to the inner ear — for example , exposure to loud noise . |
| 7 | Despite their gift as mental giants , the Sensorites are physically quite innocuous — small , corpulent and soft-spoken , they have extreme aversions to loud noise and darkness . |
| 8 | ‘ David Keys from The Independent in London sent me his articles , ’ said Marin , surprised that the national press and institutions concerned with the preservation of the cultural heritage had shown no knowledge of or interest in the silver , whose sale had been announced by Sotheby 's to loud fanfares the month before . |
| 9 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 10 | to loud music and a drench of tears , |
| 11 | My husband and I both suffer from migraines and we have identical symptoms : sickness , blurred vision , sensitivity to loud noises and a banging headache . |
| 12 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 13 | To loud applause , he said the message to Mr Heath from the grass-roots should be : ‘ We all respect your vision and your achievements , but please remember that the overwhelming majority of Conservatives totally reject the idea of European union and a federal Europe . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We know from past experience where the other route takes us , ’ he said to loud applause . |
| 15 | To loud applause Karlinsky shook hands with the President before ascending the steps where he put his face against the blue and white silk curtain with the gold braid which hung before the doors of the Ark . |
| 16 | To loud applause she declared : ‘ The IRA did not kill Johnathan Ball in my name . |
| 17 | At the cry of ‘ stewards ’ , forty leathery men of uncertain age , who , as agents , had devoted their lives to the Party , frogmarched the YCs out of the hall to loud applause . |
| 18 | Just because I am a woman they belittle me , ’ she said to loud cheers . |
| 19 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 20 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 21 | ‘ Crossman tended to presume that all those he came across , at work or socially , liked nothing better than to have their intellectual sacred cows challenged , their arguments questioned and their assumptions subjected to loud investigation . ’ |
| 22 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 23 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 24 | Some potato varieties are more susceptible to enzymic browning than others . |
| 25 | There are no health questions to be answered or medical examinations required but if you are disabled by illness or injury when you enter the agreement , cover will not begin until you return to full-time work . |
| 26 | With her teenage son on the brink of independence , Pamela Constantinides has returned to full-time work for the first time in 16 years . |
| 27 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 28 | If you care for a relative or close friend on a long-term basis and feel unable to return to full-time work it may still be possible to make alternative arrangements in order to work for one or more days or nights a week . |
| 29 | The impact of redundancy on the employment status of older workers was remarkable , with only one in six of all those aged 55 and over moving from employment with the steel company to a further spell of employment , and only one in seven to full-time work . |
| 30 | This may involve the following behavioural changes : * the wife may return to full-time work to increase the family 's total income ; * expenditure on other items , such as cars or holidays , may for the time be reduced ; the couple may place an increased value on the enhanced personal prestige attached to the ownership of the larger property , and will be prepared to accept the financial consequences of enjoying this enhanced prestige . |