Example sentences of "to [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This never came to trial and in the autumn he sold the land to IBM for a price similar to that received by other farmers , with a sum for damages much smaller than that he had sought in his suit . |
| 2 | Students of human memory have long recognized that performance on a retrieval task tends to be superior when the test context is similar to that experienced during initial training . |
| 3 | The transcription products were quantitated by densitometry ; P A2b activity is expressed in each case relative to that observed with supercoiled DNA at the lowest ionic strength assayed , which is considered as 100% . |
| 4 | ‘ The pattern … is similar to that observed with disastrous results in the drug users in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh in the 1980s . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been assumed by many that this will lead to a system of ‘ educational inheritance ’ directly comparable to that observed in capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , pp. 231–2 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , many components of jet-lag — altered sleep , fatigue , loss of appetite , changed bowel movements — are found , and the rate of adjustment of the body rhythms to a simulated time-zone transition is similar to that observed after real transitions . |
| 7 | This was via ‘ cahiers des charges ’ — a procedure detailing terms of conditions , akin to that imposed on all bodies entrusted with a public service . |
| 8 | In this quotation , however , both the words ‘ collusion ’ and ‘ tacit ’ are being interpreted in a different sense to that adopted in this paper . |
| 9 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |
| 10 | With a few notable exceptions , the policy should be similar to that advocated for younger subjects . |
| 11 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 12 | Future annual statistical reports will adopt the same format and will incorporate information similar to that contained in this Update . |
| 13 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 14 | For instance , if it is supposed that some of our perceptual judgements have a form of intrinsic credibility , and if a set of canons of rationality can be justified without recourse to the special sciences — they are analytic , self-evident , or a conventionally adopted linguistic framework — then it may be possible to trace the credibility of all rational beliefs to that possessed by this foundation . |
| 15 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 16 | The plasma fatty acid profile in Crohn 's disease was similar to that found in ulcerative colitis ( Table III ) . |
| 17 | But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity . |
| 18 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 19 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 20 | We submit that even scores such as the Glasgow coma scale and the Apgar score , which are assumed to be independent of medical management , may , in fact , be susceptible to a similar effect to that demonstrated with APACHE scoring . |
| 21 | The following list , close to that used in this book , summarises the most prominent symptoms : |
| 22 | However , he was struck by the apparent paucity of linguistic skills in the right hemisphere of normal subjects compared to that reported for commissurotomised patients . |
| 23 | DNA extracted from the gastric mucosa of smokers tended to have a dense pattern of adduct spots similar to that reported in other tissues of smokers . |
| 24 | The percentage improvement in spinal bone mineral density is similar to that reported in normal women receiving this dose of oestrogen . |
| 25 | This estimated rate of ulcer recurrence is similar to that reported in lifetable analyses of other maintenance trials using both cimetidine 400 mg once daily ( median annual recurrence reported=31% , range 21–55% ) and ranitidine 150 mg once daily ( median annual recurrence reported=35% , range 18–49% ) . |
| 26 | The polymorphic pattern was identical to that reported in white populations . |
| 27 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 28 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 29 | The intense conflict in the years from 1980 to 1982 led to many resignations among teachers , while many others asked for transfers . |