Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Attempts were made to sell the PC-5 to the USAAC , but they showed no interest , due to the use of strategic materials . |
2 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
3 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
4 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
5 | It is rather unexpectedly glutinous and flabby to the touch — all-in-all rather unpleasant , if it were not for the splash of vivid yellow it gives to an otherwise sombre winter hedgerow . |
6 | ‘ Say no word of this to the household at present . |
7 | Opening an area such as this to the public means just that , and together with genuine walkers and climbers arrive the wild flower pickers , the egg stealers and the litter louts . |
8 | Er the second reason that we would suggest this to the panel is that it is actually er used by OPCAS , the three year average is used by OPCAS rather than an eight year average . |
9 | He attributes this to the rise of the modern office , mass literacy , the recruitment of growing numbers of clerical workers from manual backgrounds , and the increasing employment of female labour in these jobs . |
10 | ‘ I shall return this to the Immigration Department . |
11 | Sew this to the back of your knitting . |
12 | Additionally , of course , where a seller is aware of any infringement ( and , to be prudent , any allegation or potential for an allegation of infringement ) he should give specific notice of this to the buyer , either in the clause , or separately . |
13 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
14 | On the death of Queen Mary in 1694 , a sermon was preached noting how rare it was to find courage and heroism in a woman and relating this to the modesty and selfless nature of the late queen , in abasing herself before her husband . |
15 | He showed this to the porter who watched over the entrance turnstile , and Diane produced her staff ticket . |
16 | Chairman , if I may add this add this to the outline application , indicating that that 's to the rear of the site , the Mayor |
17 | ‘ You did n't think to mention this to the detective who questioned you ? ’ |
18 | Ernest had an eye for detail , and Undertown displays this to the hilt . |
19 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
20 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
21 | In such circumstances the punishment may be unjustified , and if it is , the parent should be able to admit this to the child and be able to apologise later when the tension is lessened . |
22 | When police investigations began to point towards the culprits , they addressed a petition to King George VI appealing for the stone 's formal return to Scotland , and fastened this to the door of St Giles 's cathedral in Edinburgh . |
23 | Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are . |
24 | Once this has been done , LIFESPAN allocates a unique number , a DC identifier , and returns this to the user . |
25 | Leave this to the law . |
26 | Linzey rather lamely consigns this to the problem of evil . |
27 | The crystal structure for CD4 domain 2 ( refs 31 , 32 ) , automatically modified ( program MUTATE , R. Esnouf ) to accord with the predicted CD2/CD4 sequence alignment , provided a putative model for sCD2 domain 2 ; major rebuilding was required to match this to the electron density . |
28 | ( We might compare this to the way in which , in Sartre 's later text , the synecdoche of the singular-universal insistently slides into the singularity of the event ) . |
29 | At Codsall I was hoping to link this to the achievement of a balance of teaching methods … |
30 | Woolf seemed to ascribe this to the ignorance of English sentencers about prison conditions on the one hand and other countries ’ practices on the other . |