Example sentences of "[adj] to a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 2 | And when a decision comes down , it comes down unexplained to an officer who must continue his relationship with the polluter . |
| 3 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 4 | ‘ If we do not send legislation down to the dioceses , it is almost analogous to a judge who fails to include a point of law in a summing up to the jury . ’ |
| 5 | Energetically , he found , walking is analogous to a pendulum which falls , gaining speed from gravity , and rided up past its low point on the gained kinetic energy . |
| 6 | The previous paragraph assumes the existence of a decoding device in the cell , able to translate particular triplets into particular amino acids : such a decoding device is analogous to a machine which could receive a message in Morse code ( corresponding to the base sequence in DNA ) and produce a version written in the roman alphabet ( corresponding to the amino acid sequence of the protein ) . |
| 7 | It had also to make itself respectable and acceptable to a world which was , after all , part of the Roman Empire . |
| 8 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting may be or would be embarrassing , damaging or inconvenient to an individual who has featured in the case . |
| 9 | Very similar to a Linberg what do you call that top of the old one er top of the . |
| 10 | It 's similar to a call we had erm a couple of weeks ago Nelly , about about er , people being pestered with er with with children like this . |
| 11 | But research in America has suggested very strongly that it 's actually a special sex fluid , similar to a secretion which is ejaculated from a man 's prostate gland , but produced by a sensitive structure near the famous G-spot . |
| 12 | mm and it 's similar to a cake we used to have when he used to love erm when we were engaged he introduced |
| 13 | The UFF warned retaliatory action , similar to a shooting which left five Catholics dead in an attack on a Belfast betting shop last February , would begin at midnight last night . |
| 14 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 15 | It had been the intention to incorporate part of the old casual ward , to the east of the infirmary but in the course of the preparatory work it was found that the old buildings were bug-infested to an extent which made it undesirable to use any part of them . |
| 16 | cheques payable to a person who wishes to pass it through another person 's bank account , e.g. if they have no bank account of their own ; |
| 17 | It is only necessary that as a result of the transfer of assets income becomes payable to a person who is domiciled or resident outside the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | It is payable to a widow who is between 45 and 54 inclusive when her husband dies ; or when she ceases to receive widowed mother 's allowance . |
| 19 | The total pay which is reckoned is subject to a limit which is reviewed annually . |
| 20 | ( iii ) The third statutory limitation on the right of a floating charge holder is section 15 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which empowers an administrator to sell property subject to a charge which as created was a floating charge without the need to obtain a court order . |
| 21 | They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value . |
| 22 | One of the contradictions in Minton 's character was that the anti-authoritarian rebel remained wedded to a person who needed to belong and who , schooled by his grandmother , was in certain situations an upholder of convention and correct form . |
| 23 | The lavishness of specification is appropriate to a country which still , in spite of economic recession , is by most standards a very wealthy one , though it should be noted that the document is far from describing typical or current practice : this is what the two associations concerned regard as logical developments to be pursued during the next decade in line with the best available practice . |
| 24 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 25 | The 10-feet high palings , with their broad central gates and twin gas lamps , may not be as imposing as the metal fence around Buckingham Palace , but they do , in their modest way , suggest a sense of grandeur appropriate to a leader who has held office for 10 years . |
| 26 | The ability to predict where hostilities were likely to occur , in what countries , under whose jurisdiction , was paramount to a man whose professional abilities lay in being a practising soldier . |
| 27 | Despite its official view that all states , republican as well as monarchic , were equally repressive and repugnant , its members were at first by no means implacably hostile to a regime which promised |
| 28 | Not all difficulty factors have been identified and there can be factors unique to a task which influence performance . |
| 29 | The last two registers afford important information , not obtainable from Companies House , in relation to beneficial ownership and not just registered ownership , and are particularly valuable to a searcher who suspects that some major transaction , ( e.g . |
| 30 | All through his life , though Ken could be austere and stubborn to a point which provoked exasperation , his evident holiness was so blended with cheerfulness that he seldom lost the admiration and affection of his contemporaries . |