Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 2 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 3 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 4 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 5 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
| 6 | There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) . |
| 7 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
| 8 | Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government . |
| 9 | The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers . |
| 10 | Perhaps , in the fourth century , Christians recognised , far more clearly than their modern counterparts , how closely such attitudes conformed to the historical facts . |
| 11 | The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education . |
| 12 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 13 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 14 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 15 | Nor are the parallels confined to the inner city . |
| 16 | Tiring of the distant ceremonies and speeches and festivities , so at odds with the gangrenous suffering inside the city — climax to so much other death on Stalinvast — Jaq opened a case keyed to the electronic tattoo on his palm and removed a small package of flayed , cured mutant skin . |
| 17 | The year has seen another 12 projects added to the active list bringing the total considered to 60 since TRANSAID was launched in early 1988 . |
| 18 | Oskar Lafontaine , the SPD leader in the Saarland , has argued vociferously that a modern mass party like the SPD could not afford to have its policies confined to the narrow interests of employed industrial workers . |
| 19 | More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist . |
| 20 | This latter point would lie clear , for example , if the buyer responded to the anticipatory breach by indicating that due delivery was still expected . |
| 21 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 22 | Yamaha will build a second boat , to the design of Bruce Farr , using data learnt from the prototype , the first yacht designed to the new Whitbread Offshore Rule for the 60ft Class B. |
| 23 | The Accounting Standards Board responded to the increasing demands for improvement in the way in which financial performance is reported and in April 1991 published a discussion draft putting forward its proposals . |
| 24 | As his eyes adjusted to the scorching dry heat , he saw that the slaves were all lightly clad ; in the main , they wore ragged breeches , with the upper halves of their bodies and their feet bare . |
| 25 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 26 | As her eyes adjusted to the muted light , Isabel saw that the walls had been limed to the height of a man , and that the windows were glazed , shutting off all sounds from outside . |
| 27 | 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services . |
| 28 | The interior decor of these cars conformed to the usual Brush standard with oak trim . |
| 29 | Yet whatever the actual characteristics imputed to the mystical powers selected , seemingly arbitrary , for a given role , most religions appear to possess two complementary categories . |
| 30 | He leaned forward , his forearms resting on his knees , his eyes riveted to the portable radio at his feet as he waited for the pitcher 's next delivery . |