Example sentences of "the [noun prp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the BAA calls for the EEC to relent , it has effectively put the rules governing safety into cold storage . |
| 2 | Badb 's cry was also to be feared as a death omen , it having been she who taught the BANSHEES to keen and wail . |
| 3 | It is intended to take the Flea to local fetes , etc and to do this a custom-built trailer to ease moving it around will be built . |
| 4 | In his view , the presence of WEA classes in evening institutes were valuable indicators of the District 's existence , attractive to potential students and demonstrated the contribution made by the WEA to liberal adult education in partnership with LEAs and their own emphasis on vocational courses . |
| 5 | In contrast to the English Nonjurors , whose Jacobitism tended to be lukewarm at best , the Scottish episcopal clergy actively preached the divine right of the Stuarts to real power . |
| 6 | Corinth controlled both the north-south route joining the Peloponnese to central Greece and the east-west haulage passage on the site of the modern Corinthian Canal . |
| 7 | The troops led by Gneisenau , on emerging from Plancenoit , turned onto the Brussels to Charleroi road just to the north of Le Caillou . |
| 8 | This habit of mono-reproduction is explicitly compared by the Lele to human reproduction . |
| 9 | The Tatars had been deported from the Crimea to Central Asia under Stalin . |
| 10 | Following the transfer of responsibility for social rehabilitation of discharged patients in 1993 from the NHS to local authorities , greater emphasis may be given to developing work schemes . |
| 11 | The first sections of the Colombo to Kandy railway were opened in 1865 , and from that time there was continuous railway-building on the island until the 1920s . |
| 12 | As the boat bobbed outside the Houses of Parliament ; a cacophonous version of ‘ God Save the Queen ’ echoed across the Thames to bemused sightseers . |
| 13 | While American war plans placed great reliance on these bases , the advance of the USSR to nuclear status was leading to reappraisals of the vulnerability of the British Isles to Soviet air attack . |
| 14 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 15 | As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere . |
| 16 | The Treaty of Adrianople of September 1829 went only a little further , transferring the northern shore of the Danube to Russian control from the point where the Pruth flowed into it . |
| 17 | Both Griffiths and the Audit Commission were critical of this expenditure which , they argued , cut across the declared policy of promoting community care , and in 1991 , in accordance with the Griffiths proposals , responsibility for board and lodging allowances will pass from the DSS to local authorities . |
| 18 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 19 | Brazil 's Environment Secretary , Flavio Perri , has announced that the government intends to open up the Amazon to economic exploitation in a " sustainable , nondestructive way " and that cattle-raising , mining and agriculture would all be considered . |
| 20 | The Task Forces were reactive responses on the part of the SDA to specific closures . |
| 21 | Those farmers ( 25% ) who chose a selected period of the winter were referring to the mid-October to early January period . |
| 22 | This reduces the supply of labour in the UK to SUK-m , the supply of labour in the UK minus migrants . |
| 23 | 1980 ) is alleged to involve a transfer of TNC manufacturing production from industrialized countries like the UK to new ‘ export processing zones ’ etc. , in Third World countries such as Malaysia , and to production within the domestic markets of countries such as Brazil . |
| 24 | All those businesses exporting from the UK to continental Europe gain some benefit . |
| 25 | But these tools of torture , confinement or intimidation are not the only products available in the UK to foreign regimes seeking to suppress or intimidate their citizens . |
| 26 | For those who do n't want to waste a minute , there are even flights from all over the UK to nearby Gatwick Airport . |
| 27 | Effects of soil erosion in every degree of intensity can be found in Latin America , ranging from ravaged mountain slopes of the Andes to incipient dust storms in rangelands of the Argentine Republic . |
| 28 | Children from Ysgol Bodafon , Llandudno , show their model of the Philippines to Christian Aid secretary Lis Perkins |
| 29 | It had previously been considered that the feature of the second oral tentacle pore arising outside the mouth was distinctive enough to warrant raising the Ophiurinae to familial rank ( Paterson , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | In 1984–88 only 3.4% of patents granted in the US to other nationals went to Britons ( 3.7% in 1979–83 ) . |