Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fonts under windows 3.00 varied in quality as size changed so Microsoft put this to rights in the latest version of there graphical operating system . |
| 2 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 3 | AST now earns 7% of its revenue from open systems business , but is hoping to expand this to 30% over the next three years . |
| 4 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 5 | Indeed , the cathedral monastery , like Canterbury or Durham , was something peculiar to England in the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | As for initiatory rites , while circumcision was peculiar to Judaism in the Roman world , baptism was widely practised . |
| 7 | This is especially important if your skin is prone to breakouts in the T-zone . |
| 8 | Not that the weather is any less prone to wetness in the Mournes than elsewhere , or that the slopes are any less steep . |
| 9 | This short length of the female urethra , combined with the closeness of the vagina and anus , explains why women are so much more prone to infections of the bladder than are men . |
| 10 | Elizabeth of York — the eldest — was too prissy , she had decided , Cecily was a busybody , and Bridget , who was four , was prone to hiccups in the middle of the night ! |
| 11 | For example , birds have higher maximum lifespans than mammals and are less prone to death in the wild . |
| 12 | Unisys will also make note of the fact that its anticipated PCI-based multiprocessing Unix Server Design Center , due in the fourth quarter , will house Pentiums and later P6s and that the high-end U6000/75 and U6000/85 that it buys OEM from Sequent Computer Systems Inc will be field-upgradable to Pentium in the fourth quarter . |
| 13 | Along one side of the square , more or less blown to pieces in the blitz , were neat blocks of council flats . |
| 14 | Quite what type Rex Cunningham was did not become clear to Harry in the course of their meal together that evening . |
| 15 | When the River Erne reaches Fermanagh , it broadens out into immense Lough Erne , a fragmented inland sea of a thousand islands that bisects the whole county and reaches clear to Cavan in the south . |
| 16 | This became clear to Fenella during the Liverpool run . |
| 17 | Industrial capitalism released productive forces in an exponential curve : that much was clear to Engels before the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | These causes of poverty were far from clear to observers in the 1870s . |
| 19 | The problems become acute from the vantage of electronic geographic information as was made quite clear to participants in the seminar on The Future of Our Landscape at the Royal Society ( London ) in October 1992 . |
| 20 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 21 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 22 | SCOTVEC 's remit to develop , award and accredit vocational education and training means that the Council has a responsibility to ensure that its provision is responsive to changes in the economic environment . |
| 23 | This interest owes much to the recent establishment that population growth in the past was particularly responsive to changes in the age at which women married and in the level of female celibacy . |
| 24 | It also makes these prices more responsive to changes in the general level of interest rates than is the case with money market instruments . |
| 25 | In view of what you have just said , are you likely to be more generous to members of the Whips Office who may wish to speak in a debate ? |
| 26 | Anyone who would like to receive a copy ( price £3 plus 55p p&p , but free to members of the Assessment Group and the Chemical Education Research Group ) should write to J. Brockington , Department of Science , Matthew Boulton College , Sherlock Street , Birmingham B5 7DB . |
| 27 | The ‘ Knotty ’ magazine issued free to members of the NSR , is priced at £1.00 , and provides a wealth of information on the restoration of the railway in this lovely area of North Staffordshire . |
| 28 | It is free to members of the public and had proved popular with other organisations wanting to provide this information to women . |
| 29 | There are two small beaches and a short boat trip away , the beautiful Ile Aux Cerfs offers deserted coves , restaurants and beach bars , and a wide range of watersports ( which with the exception of scuba diving , are free to guests of the hotel ) . |
| 30 | Only the effects of cold on its battery prevented her being ‘ patched ’ through direct to London on the satellite link . |