Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 2 | It can serve as only a rudimentary guide to the experimental set-up if the eventual instrument is based on the radiometer . |
| 3 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 4 | I spoke from experience of how a common commitment to God 's plan can shake both black and white into reality — ‘ not the white man 's plan , nor the black man 's ; not British or Rhodesian . |
| 5 | The main constraint operating on the community relations police in West Belfast is in establishing contact with youth groups and schools in the area because of either a general resistance to the police or fear of intimidation from Republican paramilitary organizations as a result of involvement in a community relations programme . |
| 6 | These unreasonable expectations are behind not a few referrals to social services , or they may militate against success in other cases which involve children and young people . |
| 7 | Number 141- an old bookshop , musty , cobwebbed and with not a single customer to be seen . |
| 8 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 9 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 10 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 11 | The blooms are a soft pink , and fully double , with over a hundred petals to each flower . |
| 12 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 13 | Average age for the ceasing of menstruation is around 50 , but the hot flushes and sweating that can accompany it are more common after the periods have ended , and may last from just a few months to more than five years . |
| 14 | According to the event , the duration of this state may last from just a few months to many years . |
| 15 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 16 | Another reason is that when processes are understood at the molecular level then there is at once a natural link to chemistry , a most powerful body of knowledge to advance further understanding . |
| 17 | Progress becomes slower as the front face of the square-cut buttress is neared , and the though provoking and insecure terrain usually brings at least a temporary halt to the proceedings . |
| 18 | Research institutes seem to have found at least a temporary solution to their problems . |
| 19 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 20 | Data from the 1985 GHS provides at least a partial answer to this question by providing information about who helped those older people who required assistance with a whole variety of adl tasks . |
| 21 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
| 22 | Most employers accepted statutory notice requirements , and most accorded the workers at least a minimal entitlement to fringe benefits . |
| 23 | So we find , by the end of the fourteenth century , that persons are directing petitions to the Chancellor , claiming that they have at least a moral right to the benefit of these uses , and begging him to give them help against the legal owner who is setting up his Common Law rights against them . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind the awful job involved in renewing or replacing the pillar stake , you can see the sense in putting up a concrete post , or at least a concrete spur to which a timber can be bolted . |
| 25 | This requires at least a further hour to be added to the overlap , thus a minimum of 2–2½ hours in total is justifiable in some circumstances . |
| 26 | Television income and match sponsorship will add at least a further £30,000 to the day 's takings . |
| 27 | But for the moment it seems that Chevenement is fighting to keep up appearances of big budget increases while losing at least a little ground to other ministries in that fight for limited funds . |
| 28 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 29 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 30 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |