Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stratimirović tried to prevent Vuk from publishing his grammar by invoking an order of Leopold II giving a monopoly to the publishing of books in Serbian to the Serbian press in Buda , which , unlike that in Vienna , was under the influence of the Church . |
| 2 | These orders relate partly to training , partly to rights of audience in different courts , and partly to matters peculiar to the internal regulation of the Inns and the dress , appearance and deportment of their members . |
| 3 | One obvious problem is whether social representations are peculiar to the modern age , or indeed to scientific thinking , or whether they appeared previously . |
| 4 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 5 | But in a modern text such as Thru which mimics the classical narrator in order to counter classical conceptions of subjectivity and narrative voice , the narrator undergoes the effects of ‘ fading ’ peculiar to the traditional novel as well . |
| 6 | The latter document should , of course , contain any provisions which may be peculiar to the new partner , especially as regards clarification of his status in the firm , his involvement in the decision making process and the precise extent of liabilities which he is required to undertake or against which he will be entitled to an indemnity ( see below ) . |
| 7 | For the time being , and probably for the foreseeable future , the rather vague criterion remains that of ‘ episcopal ordination ’ , vague because that procedure is not peculiar to the Anglican Church . |
| 8 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
| 9 | He goes on to point out that words like ‘ comfort ’ and ‘ home ’ are peculiar to the English language , so that the benighted French are driven to borrow confortable , since de la maison and chez nous relate merely to eating and sleeping places . |
| 10 | The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether . |
| 11 | Early morning and afternoon game drives , where you will see most of the common species of African wildlife , together with those peculiar to the northern province . |
| 12 | The other is to make meaning central and to construct a scientific method peculiar to the social world . |
| 13 | It 's not common practice to register notice of a contract in all cases , but when , for example , there 's an unusually long deferred completion date , or when your buyer-client suspects the good faith of the seller , or if there is a contract by correspondence , or for any other special reason peculiar to the particular transaction , a Notice should be seriously considered and the client consulted and advised . |
| 14 | As always , it is necessary to know the range of applicability of any measurement — whether it is relevant to other similar flows or whether it is peculiar to the particular situation investigated . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there are features peculiar to the computational approach that have important implications for physiological psychologists and these are the topic of this section . |
| 16 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 17 | This includes personal " tics " , ways of moving one 's head , habits such as nail-biting , which are peculiar to individuals and not generalisable to the whole group . |
| 18 | But , like all professionals , Fisher is prone to the odd upset . |
| 19 | He has shown that these solutions are asymptotic to the inhomogeneous Kasner solutions as the singularity is approached . |
| 20 | In this respect he was faithful to the specific teaching of the Gītā on the need for detached or selfless action , and he may well be reflecting the stress on dharma , or duty , characteristic of the Hindu tradition and which received particular emphasis in the Buddhist tradition . |
| 21 | It remains faithful to the 36-year-old concept behind the SL , but takes it onto a higher plane altogether . |
| 22 | To be faithful to the over-all impression of the celebratory poems we ought to note that the effect is often the reverse of abnegation . |
| 23 | The family , however , remained faithful to the Catholic Church and four of the five sons of John Lewis Eyre were ordained priest . |
| 24 | It has been a faithful city , and I am glad to say that , throughout this century , it has been very faithful to the Conservative party . |
| 25 | Why do they remain so faithful to the Conservative Party ? |
| 26 | This master , who seems to have learnt from the Pistoxenos Painter , is clearly much influenced by the great painting of his time but always remains faithful to the single base-line , feeling it perhaps a proper convention for vase-decoration . |
| 27 | In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture . |
| 28 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |
| 29 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |
| 30 | The unity of the New Testament , the fact that it contains not every Christology , but only those which were judged to be faithful to the original testimony , reflect the origin of the gospel in the one unique person of Jesus ( Newbigin 1978:176 ) . |