Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 2 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 5 | While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment . |
| 6 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 7 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 8 | A brand of religion peculiar to the country and its people , where saints and miracles were part of everyday life and idiots were revered as the children of God . |
| 9 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
| 10 | Verbivore focuses on writing as a form of communication : it posits a society in which writing has become outmoded and is then rediscovered , prompting a renewal of discursive modes peculiar to the novel . |
| 11 | Various reasons have been offered for this decline , but the most likely explanation is that the general conditions of recession in Britain have been exacerbated by other factors peculiar to the recording industry . |
| 12 | The two most important messages emerging from that guide are that stress is a permanent aspect of life and is not peculiar to the education service . |
| 13 | Failure was due to some weakness or perversity peculiar to the individual " . |
| 14 | " All people that on earth do dwell " in a defiant way that is peculiar to the English , and to the people of the west country in particular . |
| 15 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 16 | Where the A625 road from Hathersage to Sheffield crosses one of the ‘ edges ’ peculiar to the Peak District , just before reaching the Yorkshire border , the keen explorer may find heaps of unfinished millstones in the undergrowth . |
| 17 | Another , equally peculiar to the judiciary in this country , is their particular version of the doctrine of the ‘ independence of the judiciary ’ ( see Chapter 4 ) , which leads them to resent what they perceive as interference by governments in their sentencing practice . |
| 18 | The method we adopt to arrive at an answer will be peculiar to the enquiry ( or discipline ) we are exploring . |
| 19 | There are certain characteristics peculiar to the use of machines in language teaching : Listening To develop the ability to understand the language spoken at a normal speed . |
| 20 | But what is peculiar to the doctor is that the successful action , the save , is seen to be brought about through the use of the esoteric skills for which he trained and which , by and large , remain untested and unused . |
| 21 | As an age-group , a stage of life , adolescents stood , clearly visible , defined and itemized , the embodiment of so many of the tensions and contradictions peculiar to the period , without which they would never have been ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 22 | We may examine the technologies applied to the basic raw materials in early Anglo-Saxon society , wood , metal , clay , fibres and minerals , paying particular attention to aspects which are peculiar to the period and leaving the general matters of technology as understood . |
| 23 | Dealers regarded the punters ' concern to make a profit on , say , £500 worth of Rolls Royce shares with a contempt peculiar to the City whizz-kids they aspired to become . |
| 24 | That question itself was not peculiar to the Age of Reason . |
| 25 | Now , there is no denying that past controversies were rooted in circumstances that were peculiar to the age in which they occurred . |
| 26 | Several warehouses and other buildings display the architectural style peculiar to the district in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 28 | Quantitatively this is liable to be peculiar to the apparatus , but , at least sometimes , such developments occur in ways that seem to have very general significance . |
| 29 | Didier was eleven , a quiet child with the natural distrust of foreigners peculiar to the French of his class , and times . |
| 30 | Its response to these events was to see the sinister interests represented by the challenge to the international order as being peculiar to the revisionist states , Italy , Japan , and Germany . |