Example sentences of "to an [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 2 | Much of the damage took the form of " bleaching " , which occurs when the water becomes abnormally warm , or " black band disease " , due to an infestation of blue-green algae , which is triggered by an excess of nutrients . |
| 3 | Where feminist Lacanianism is more socially oriented , the unconscious tends to be reduced to an artefact of social relations . |
| 4 | But the main purpose is to deter other people which is tantamount to an abuse of human rights . |
| 5 | In addition to an expansion of existing services in the financial sector , many more services are now available ( e.g. professional drain clearing through the franchise operation ‘ Dynorod ’ ) . |
| 6 | While the Plowden Report was influential in giving approval to an expansion of home-school links , it was to some extent reflecting the social climate of the times . |
| 7 | It makes you a lot more confident , ’ she adds to an accompaniment of vigorous nods and affirmative uh-huhs . |
| 8 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 9 | Titron went over to an angle of thirty-five degrees . |
| 10 | For two days and a night the bombardment continued , until French aviators reported the columns of smoke rising to an altitude of two-and-a-half-thousand feet . |
| 11 | An indication of this level of appreciation is the adequacy of arrangements for inducting new members to an organisation with distinctive characteristics . |
| 12 | According to an index of advanced bookings , European hotel bookings for April were up nearly 34 per cent on the same month last year . |
| 13 | ‘ It can be on its way to an incident within four minutes , is capable of travelling at up to 25mph and is extremely manoeuvrable . |
| 14 | As our diagram shows , a theoretical change with height can amount to an increase of six times from ground level to 60 metres or 200ft , or more realistically by 50% from the gust-free level of 10m to 60m . |
| 15 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the prison population could be substantially reduced without creating a massive crime wave : if the numbers in prison were cut by 40 per cent , this could be expected to lead to an increase in criminal convictions of only 1.6 per cent . |
| 17 | Strictly speaking , ‘ epidemic ’ refers to an increase in new cases of a contagious disease from a previously stable , ‘ endemic ’ level of new cases ( see , for example , Barker and Rose 1979 ) . |
| 18 | In the 1870s a drive for increased milk production led to an increase in Friesian imports and this typical dairy type settled in the southern lowlands of Sweden . |
| 19 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 20 | In this year the US economy experienced serious trade and current-account deficits : the $170 billion trade deficit for the first nine months was due in particular to an increase in non-oil imports . |
| 21 | This seems to suggest that the enhancement in performance for the risky junctions as demonstrated by the P(A) scores is because of an increased number of hits for risky exemplars , whereas for the less risky junctions the decrement in performance is attributable to an increase in false alarms for the risky exemplars rather than an increase in hits for the less risky ones . |
| 22 | The Sultan 's endorsement of traditional Moslem values was widely believed to be a response to an increase in social problems , especially unemployment which increased from 3.6 per cent in 1988 to 6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 23 | Around half of this increase was due not to the automatic impact of recession on spending and taxes , but to an increase in structural deficits . |
| 24 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 25 | The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants , which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes . |
| 26 | This occupation ( at least with the Senones of the Adriatic coast and the Boii north of the Apennines ) was at first equivalent to an extermination of Celtic tribes . |
| 27 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 28 | Plans mooted some months ago by Wimpey Asphalt to infill Ratho Quarry during their expansion operations led to an outcry by local residents and Edinburgh climbers . |
| 29 | Therefore , while he could indeed describe the doctrine of the Trinity as ‘ the true coping-stone of the system of Christian doctrine ’ , he relegated it to an appendix in both editions of The Christian Faith . |
| 30 | He also claimed that Senegal had imposed trade sanctions and embargoes , damaging Gambian companies and parastatal organizations ; Senegal had imposed a restriction limiting each person crossing into the Gambia to an allowance of 20,000 francs CFA ( about US$75 ) . |