Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An act designed to register Korean antagonism to the consolidation of Japanese dominance in Korea undertaken by Ito ironically led to the imposition of full Japanese rule in 1910 . |
| 2 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |
| 3 | These arrangements led in due course to the building society sending the £15,000 , less a sum in respect of its conveyancing costs , to W. H. Hopkins & Co. , pending completion of the purchase and mortgage . |
| 4 | This led in due course to the enactment of a new code which was substituted for the relevant sections of the Act of 1972 by the Transport Act 1981 and is now found , without material alteration , in the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 5 | The Companies Act 1985 , as amended ( ‘ the Act' ) provides , both for individual company accounts and for group accounts , that if in special circumstances compliance with any of the provisions of the Act as to the matters to be included in a company 's accounts ( or notes thereto ) is inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and profit or loss , the directors shall depart from that provision to the extent necessary to give a true and fair view . |
| 6 | And if , in special circumstances , compliance with a provision of the Schedules would be inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view the directors must depart from that provision to the extent necessary , giving , in a note to the accounts , particulars of the departure and the reasons for , and effect of , it . |
| 7 | It was Matilda 's private route to the chapel , after all . |
| 8 | At a gallop , the amount of strain on a horse 's fore tendon is very near to its maximum capacity and any further loading leads to progressive damage to the tendon fibres resulting in extreme cases of tendon rupture . |
| 9 | And I do n't apologise to the people of that I voted with Councillor to take a hundred administration jobs out of education and direct that money to the provision of education in the schools cos that that is what running the education department is about . |
| 10 | Collision Damage Waiver which covers the renter 's responsibility for accidental damage to the vehicle . |
| 11 | With Oliver Cromwell 's approval he took his seat on 7 February , bringing his legal and administrative experience to the task , and he attended all but a handful of recorded meetings between 7 February and 5 December . |
| 12 | In procedural terms , therefore , the life sentence involves a transfer of function : normally it is the judge who determines the sentence ( or at least its upper limit , since earlier release on parole may be possible ) , whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive , who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge . |
| 13 | The negotiation of the contractual terms of such relationships is all too often regarded as a contest in which the supplier attempts to exclude the maximum possible liability to the customer , and the customer to impose the maximum possible liability on the supplier ; the only rules are those imposed by the Unfair Contract Terms Act , and the contest is finally decided by the relative bargaining power of the two parties . |
| 14 | The only possible change to the batting line-up , despite the despair of England 's 179run defeat in the Ashes opener , is in the middle-order where the left-handed approach of David Gower or Graham Thorpe may be preferred to Mike Gatting . |
| 15 | For one thing it is rare for a human to suffer total loss of the visual cortex without extensive damage to the rest of the brain that confounds interpretation of the results . |
| 16 | A further complication arose in late November when a sharp rise in the Danube 's flow ( up to three times the normal rate ) caused severe flooding and extensive damage to the dam site . |
| 17 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 18 | An official spokesman said on June 20 that the government did not intend to suspend work on the Narmada River irrigation projects despite the recommendations of a World Bank-commissioned study , released on June 19 , which highlighted the project 's extensive damage to the environment and threat to the way of life of the local tribal population . |
| 19 | In particular , the rebels assert that waste from the open-cast mine , including mercury , has caused extensive damage to the island 's forests and has widened and silted up streams in the Jaba River system . |
| 20 | Kerrier District Council 's chief services officer , John Cadman , said the ‘ incredibly intense ’ storm lasted for six hours , causing extensive damage to the ground floors of businesses and homes . |
| 21 | According to LTTE reports , the air assaults killed large numbers of civilians and caused extensive damage to the town 's infrastructure . |
| 22 | ‘ In recent years IRA bombs have caused extensive damage to the City Hall , Ulster Hall and Maysfield Leisure Centre . |
| 23 | He stated that the American forces caused extensive damage to the site of Ur , with its stepped ziggurat suffering more than 400 shell hits . |
| 24 | None of the informants from Village mentioned possible economic damage to the community or the loss of the school building as a location for organised activities . |
| 25 | If he could first weaken the seal , a solid blow to the middle might be enough to break it open . |
| 26 | Governments , on one view , can not afford to leave that decision to the market because the stockmarket tends to reward those companies that abandon military R&D . |
| 27 | The offer made can either involve both parties jointly admitting liability to the pursuer , or to putting the pursuer to Proof but proposing a sharing in the event that he succeeds . |
| 28 | In the fourth place , I consider the levelling of groundless allegations to be a shameful response to the hospitality I have extended to you . |
| 29 | Montagu welcomed dissent in India as a sign of blossoming political maturity , and distinguished confidently between legitimate and illegitimate unrest — the latter being that which had for its object ‘ Home Rule ’ , the former that which aspired to political responsibility to the degree the British saw fit to give it . |
| 30 | They were just about to move away when a big estate car eased out of a space in front of them and Stuart 's Mum parked with a grateful wave to the driver . |