Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I entered the room I wished I 'd thought of phoning a desperate SOS to James . |
| 32 | Sinton runs ‘ Safe And Sound Management ’ — the North 's only professional rock management company — and he has constantly preached the virtues of cultivating a professional attitude to even the greenest garage band . |
| 33 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 34 | Bartlett , one of the founders of modern psychology , comments on the importance of relating a particular experience to other similar experiences : |
| 35 | As we saw in the previous section , a great problem for rule-based hypothesize-and-test systems is the difficulty of matching a higher-level description to a partially determined representation of the input . |
| 36 | At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry . |
| 37 | Mr Harrower underlined Group 4 's commitment to the Government 's policy of seeking a fresh approach to penal policy and practice by encouraging competition , diversity and value for money . |
| 38 | But the quid pro quo was the loss of the ability to offset exploration drilling costs against PRT liability on producing fields , a concession which reduced the actual cost of sinking a new well to just some 17 per cent of rig charges for companies which had such a tax shelter . |
| 39 | The problem of securing a round dome to a square plane was solved in Mesopotamia some 4000 years ago , using the spherical pendentive . |
| 40 | For their part , the Conservative-dominated National governments of Baldwin and Chamberlain in Britain , engaged in their policies of appeasement towards the fascist powers , were anxious to prevent the Spanish war from spreading , even at the cost of turning a blind eye to the involvement of Italy , Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 41 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 42 | I would not have thought such a style of waiting a great stimulant to appetite . ’ |
| 43 | There was also a trend towards adding an earnings-related supplement to previously flat-rate unemployment benefits ( for example , the United Kingdom ) or moving to entirely earnings-related payments ( Germany ) . |
| 44 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 45 | However , the idea of adding an extra contaminant to the air in order to reduce smog has little appeal . |
| 46 | In 1534 William Tyldesley advised Lord Lisle that the best means of getting a favourable answer to his requests would be a letter to some of his friends in the Privy Chamber or to the Lord Chamberlain . |
| 47 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 48 | Rather like the proverbial granny in the attic , the baby in the nursery is usually capable of summoning an immediate response to his imperious demands . |
| 49 | The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law . |
| 50 | It is envisaged that MAS specialists should have the capability of providing a total service to a client . |
| 51 | For the ‘ Third World ’ was invented in the context of the 1955 Bandung Conference , on the model of the French Revolution 's ‘ Third Estate ’ , and incorporating equally revolutionary ideals of providing a radical alternative to the hegemonic capitalist-socialist power blocks of the post-war period . |
| 52 | Lord Sterling , P&O chairman , said : ‘ In management terms time is extremely short if we are to effect the changes necessary for the task of providing a viable alternative to the tunnel . ’ |
| 53 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 54 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 55 | The crossing to Ostend was uneventful , with Fabia , when not hoping with all she had that everything would be all right with Barney , trying to come to terms with the fact that , despite having an innate aversion to lies and deception , she had just about agreed to practise both . |
| 56 | A set of reasons was given for re-organisation in terms of linking an appropriate size to the functions to be performed in order to reap the benefits of the economies of scale . |
| 57 | The debate between legal theorists and their critics is about the degree of autonomy possessed by the legal system from economy and society , the role of historical , cultural and contingent factors ( the ‘ dynamics ’ of the legal system ) and about the possibility of giving a coherent explanation to the ‘ internal ’ structure of the legal system , once its detachment from other factors is recognised . |
| 58 | His work , a homogeneous mass , moves in front of our eyes , contracts , expands , seems motionless or flickers , and proves that painting is not — or is no longer — the art of imitating an object by means of lines and colours , but that of giving a pictorial expression to our intuitions . ’ |
| 59 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 60 | The notion of giving a helping hand to a new literature produced against these overwhelming odds would naturally appear to her to be anathema . |