Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 2 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 3 | According to the STV 's advocates votes are wasted if they do not contribute to a candidate 's election or are superfluous . |
| 4 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 5 | Digital maps are more easily adapted to a user 's needs , especially when automated cartography is combined with spatial database management within the context of a Geographical Information System ( Chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ My last defeat was in New York against Glenwood Brown in 1989 but , instead of putting me off going to a guy 's home town , it seemed to encourage me , ’ said Boucher . |
| 7 | Elaborately carved vases , figures , and smaller versions of the great jade mountains found in Ch'ing palaces further contributed to a man 's standing and enhanced the aesthetic ambience of the higher reaches of Chinese administration . |
| 8 | Will the Government set standards to be imposed contractually , possibly linked to a Passenger 's Charter but where compensation is easily obtained to where consistently poor performance results in withdrawal of the contract ? |
| 9 | The therapeutic use of regression , which I am concerned with here , usually relates to a subject 's current life , and takes place purely at a psychological level . |
| 10 | ‘ He would always listen to a player 's problems and offer help where he could . |
| 11 | The position of a horse in the social hierarchy of the herd will also relate to a horse 's self-esteem . |
| 12 | Coming into a village he brazenly replied to a child 's ‘ Heil Hitler ’ with something entirely different ! |
| 13 | She 'll probably go to a Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 16 | Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining . |
| 17 | I will even stoop to a queen 's work if you will share the throne with me . |
| 18 | As with doctors , there are always nurses whose personal strengths are such that they can openly and lovingly respond to a patient 's pain , grief and distress without needing defences . |
| 19 | Closely connected to a horse 's need for sensory stimulation is its need for exercise . |
| 20 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 21 | Here were a team either playing to a manager 's orders and failing woefully , or simply not playing for him . |
| 22 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |
| 23 | Many breeds which are now classified as Rare are ideally suited to a smallholder 's needs . |