Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 2 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 3 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |
| 4 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 5 | I refer to a legal framework that protects without stigmatising , which recognises and takes account of the needs of society in general , the needs of the families and carers , and the needs of the individual and which provides as equitable a balance as possible between the individual 's rights of autonomy and liberty and the right to have access to the best possible treatment , rehabilitation and care . |
| 6 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 7 | I suppose to a 12-year-old kid , missing the bus is a pretty big deal . |
| 8 | It works like this , you get the schools involved and realise , I do n't know how many have read the national curriculum , bit like the Maestricht treaty I suppose to a certain extent ! |
| 9 | they do n't want to sit in the restaurant they very rarely do get them sitting in the restaurant I suppose to a certain extent other than the Sundays it 's just waste of space . |
| 10 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 11 | ‘ I go to a different school , ’ said the boy . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a year-old little boy and I get very bored sometimes , even though I go to a mother-and-toddler group now and again . |
| 13 | I think to a certain extent the West Indian kids tend to get labelled and these labels they feel they 've got to live up to . |
| 14 | I mean one of the problems with probation I think to a certain extent is that er obviously if you get these people who keep going into prison and coming out again , er it 's really pretty difficult to erm er influence their behaviour positively probably . |
| 15 | I think to a certain extent that might be literally true , but the northern part of the county , you 've got linkages into the A sixty six have n't you , Scotch Corner and to the west and you 've also got linkages here into the Wharfe Valley and up through to Skipton again and further south you can link into the M sixty two ca n't you , as trans-pennine . |
| 16 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 17 | I think to a large degree fashion has something to do with it — the innovatory concept of Sussex was very exciting in the Sixties , it 's a bit old had not . |
| 18 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 19 | You see , I belong to a photographic club — ’ |
| 20 | These days I march to a different tune . |
| 21 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 22 | I settle to a large Lagavulin in relief , and watch Martin Stephenson illustrate just why he is a full-time professional and I am a dilettante moonlighting journalist with the eternal excuse that there might be a column in it . |
| 23 | I I work to a pretty scale on these things . |
| 24 | Both pavements have examples of a four-petalled flower " with long , broad leaves which curve to a fine tip , ( pls. 1 and 5b ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 26 | However , only those which deviate to a lesser extent can be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 27 | In the new scheme , worldwide sales are divided into three regions each of which report to a new vice-president of worldwide sales . |
| 28 | Did he not himself confess to a Himalayan miscalculation ? |
| 29 | These changes , which amount to a substantial achievement , are due to the courage and maturity of the Waterford workforce , who have demonstrated their determination to make sacrifices in order to preserve jobs and save manufacturing in Waterford . |
| 30 | Surviving copies are very faint , distinctly telephonic in quality , and start with an appalling wow because the cutter was engaged before the wax was up to speed ; but an account in the Illustrated London News ( 13 ) shows the disposition of the microphones and the apparatus , which amount to a full recording system in the modern sense . |