Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 2 | Such detailed concern with consumer regulation and protection at both national and local levels put an unmistakable stamp on the 1970s — and the Consumer Credit Act is very much a monument to that approach . |
| 3 | This , of course , is not in itself a prescription of a conflict rule , merely a reference to general conflicts rules . |
| 4 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 5 | Gavin Peacock turned down a move to Ayresome Park to stay on Tyneside and Keegan , having pipped Lawrence for Charlton winger Robert Lee , is close to landing Hignett — who has also attracted West Ham and Manchester City . |
| 6 | As expected , GOSLING CELTIC 's £10,000-rated captain , STEWART TRUCKLE , has turned down a move to Third Division ATHLETICO WHADDON . |
| 7 | In the case of respondents whose arguments will be simply that the judgment of the court below is correct for the reasons given , counsel for the respondent can send in a letter to that effect in lieu of a skeleton argument . |
| 8 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 9 | " Less a response to political pressure , more good economic sense " . |
| 10 | Only a return to imperialist expansion could protect German industrial interests faced with political , economic and social crisis . |
| 11 | As well as the acceptance by Child of a valid philosophical position for the sociology of knowledge , Jacques Maquet suggested that it was only a threat to those philosophers who saw humans as provided with a spiritual nature that entailed the possibility of transcending economic and social determination through a theoretical ‘ faculty of the true ’ ( Maquet 1973 : 100 ) . |
| 12 | We treated orthopaedic screening as a distinct category because some neonatal deformations ( such as congenital dislocation of the hip ) represent only a predisposition to congenital abnormality , and surgery is avoided by conservative treatment . |
| 13 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 14 | Even patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by autonomic neuropathy are not necessarily a contraindication to restorative proctocolectomy . |
| 15 | Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance . |
| 16 | Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance . |
| 17 | Add together a susceptibility to flashy packaging and a lack of any real interest in the substance of other people 's problems and you 're on the way to producing a ‘ designer carer , . |
| 18 | Although the survey does make an appearance it is very much an adjunct to other methods of data collection . |
| 19 | By contrast , the only Buid words which might be used to translate our concepts of ‘ courage ’ and ‘ bravery ’ carry strongly negative moral overtones : words like isug denote not so much an indifference to personal danger as a tendency to fierceness or violence . |
| 20 | The invasion of Afghanistan may be less an exception to this rule than many think . |
| 21 | Does he agree that neighbourhood watches can be deemed only an aid to proper policing , in terms of numbers and police efficiency ? |
| 22 | MARKETING strategy in Europe is no longer a slave to national boundaries — a development accelerated by the arrival of the Single Market . |
| 23 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 24 | This is not just a bending to political pressure to bring in higher-paid jobs ; it is a commercial necessity . |
| 25 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 26 | Similarly with a tailwind , it 's not exactly behind you , but just a bit to one side . |
| 27 | The threat to truth as the goal of science is not just a threat to absolute certainty . |
| 28 | You 're just a commodity to that company . ’ |
| 29 | He is probably known as Champagne Tom in the office , always breaking open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate handing over a fortune to another punter . |
| 30 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |