Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 2 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
| 3 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 4 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 5 | He attributes this to the rise of the modern office , mass literacy , the recruitment of growing numbers of clerical workers from manual backgrounds , and the increasing employment of female labour in these jobs . |
| 6 | Sew this to the back of your knitting . |
| 7 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 8 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
| 9 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 10 | When police investigations began to point towards the culprits , they addressed a petition to King George VI appealing for the stone 's formal return to Scotland , and fastened this to the door of St Giles 's cathedral in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Linzey rather lamely consigns this to the problem of evil . |
| 12 | At Codsall I was hoping to link this to the achievement of a balance of teaching methods … |
| 13 | Woolf seemed to ascribe this to the ignorance of English sentencers about prison conditions on the one hand and other countries ’ practices on the other . |
| 14 | Compare this to the position of the Secretary of State . |
| 15 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 16 | John then goes on to say well of course we 're going to refer this to the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 18 | He relates this to the state of culture of his own age , facing dangers of over-specialization , which impoverishes both the religious and artistic sensibilities by separating each from the other , so that only ‘ the vestige of manners may be left for those who , having their sensibility uninformed either by religion or by art , … have nothing left but an inherited behaviour which ceases to have meaning ’ . |
| 19 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 20 | I repeated this to the editor of the biggest Catholic paper of France , ‘ L'Homme Nouveau ’ , who was here on a fact-finding visit . |
| 21 | Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements . |
| 22 | Only if you have done a very elaborate and expensive piece of research will you have gone beyond this to the sort of detailed description outlined above . |
| 23 | It will be interesting to compare this to the speed of the user fittable Cyrix 386 pin compatible 486 device that is rumoured to have a release date towards the end of this year . |
| 24 | But to go on from this to the recommendation of the Bullock Report that workers should have representation on a company 's board is to change the nature of the institution , which in my judgment is quite unwarranted . |
| 25 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 26 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 27 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 28 | Moderator could the convenor tell us why the Board wishes to be discharged its remit on health and healing when it 's been so successful in bringing this to the notice of the whole church ? |
| 29 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 30 | Radicals attribute this to the control of an autonomous medical science and knowledge , Marxists to the class position and function of doctors within capitalism . |