Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 3 | States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage . |
| 4 | to explore the contribution of religion to human identity and fulfilment , both individual and corporate ; |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are not proposing here any simple remedy to this problem , only restating the point that spatially realised problems do not always have spatially constrained solutions . |
| 7 | The drawing that forms the frontispiece to this book is poised on the borderline between fact and fiction . |
| 8 | As a result he reaches a conclusion , which may seem astonishing , though is easily open to misinterpretation , ‘ The truth is that catallaxics is the science which describes the only overall order that comprehends nearly all mankind , and that the economist is therefore entitled to insist that conduciveness to that order be accepted as a standard by which all particular institutions are judged . ’ |
| 9 | Further work is underway to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11 . |
| 10 | Starvation is out and curves are in — there 's even a National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 13 | As a counterweight to this strengthening of relationships at the CNAA-institutions level the move to weaken the role of subject boards was reversed and the proposals adopted provided for greater integration of the boards than at first suggested . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It does not entitle the contractor to additional money . |
| 17 | But he bravely put his grief to one side last night and donned his funny hat for the fans . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In a forward to Modern Policing ( Pope and Weiner ibid . ) , |
| 20 | ‘ It is impossible that she can give her full concentration to this case if she is sitting under that sort of threat , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Bring the stock to boiling point in a saucepan and add the orzo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once every six months it may be worth considering removing all the stock to another tank and syphoning all the coral sand out , cleaning it with mature tank water and returning it . |
| 25 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 26 | Good food control contributes a great deal to good weight control . |
| 27 | ‘ We mean a great deal to each other . ’ |
| 28 | He needs a confession , and attempts to gain one by offering the same deal to each prisoner . |
| 29 | Drills are generally subjected to harder work , with variables such as the nature and density of the material ; from soft deal to hard oak , even metal and concrete . |
| 30 | The success of Leapor 's subscription , though on a much smaller scale , probably owed a great deal to this family 's wide social connections . |