Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 2 | But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday . |
| 3 | ingredients : ; the juice of a lemon , for instance , will make the shade even more brilliant ; a strong cup of coffee adds depth and richness , whilst a full-bodied , deep red wine will intensify the redness or add an extra glow to the Chestnut Warm Brown variant . |
| 4 | Or write a loving poem to the wife ( not satirical , naturally ) . |
| 5 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 6 | We will review the charitable status of independent schools with the intention of ensuring that the benefits of charitable status are only awarded to those institutions that make a genuine contribution to the wider community . |
| 7 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 8 | Luna 2 are masters of understated melodies , rippled with smooth guitar lines that lend a spooky groove to the jaunty introspection of Wareham 's songwriting . |
| 9 | Even those alarms that emit a piercing bleep to momentarily stun the attacker lack the visual impact of a screaming human . |
| 10 | Sherwin Hall has contributed introductions that add a historical perspective to parts II and III . |
| 11 | At the centre of Piaget 's theory lie a number of basic concepts that owe a great deal to his interest in biology . |
| 12 | For 25 minutes , fabulous figures and floats that owe a great deal to fibre optics and underlit , liquid-nitrogen smoke glide past in a dazzle of light and changing colour . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning . |
| 14 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 15 | The cuckoo 's ability to produce eggs that bear a striking resemblance to those of its host is one of the bird 's best known adaptations . |
| 16 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 17 | He was of medium height , with a spare frame , a little unsteady on his feet , perhaps , and with the sallow complexion of recent illness on features that bore a striking resemblance to the girl before him . |
| 18 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , it 's the ones that have a sharp look to them that you 've got to watch out for . |
| 20 | ‘ Our efforts are to develop exhibitions that have a high appeal to the general public , while helping to educate and inform as much as possible ’ , explains Mr Kyle . |
| 21 | For though you and your ancestors got your property by murder and theft , and you keep it by the same power from us that have an equal right to the land with you by the righteous law of creation , yet we shall have no occasion of quarrelling … |
| 22 | This , Schell et al. believe , may one day facilitate the production of crop plants that have an inbuilt resistance to the specific insects that feed on them . |
| 23 | Among the perennial plants that perform a dual role to perfection is the goat 's beard , Aruncus dioicus , a 4ft-6ft tall perennial of which I am especially fond . |
| 24 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 25 | Alcoholic beverages were a fact of life when most drinking-water was a health hazard , so Dorchester 's Puritans killed several birds with one stone by taking over the demon drink themselves , to administer it with moderation and make a healthy profit to be dispensed to the needy . |
| 26 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers ' new Natural Break brochure includes over 450 opportunities to escape to some of the country 's most spectacular settings and make a real contribution to their survival . |
| 27 | It is cheating a bit , I fear , to think of the Basque Coast as Pyrenean , because at this end of the chain , unlike at the other , the mountains fight shy of the water and make a decisive turn to the west some miles inland , to enter Spain ; so you can see the most northerly or westerly Pyrenees easily enough from points along the coast , but you ca n't feel you are among them . |
| 28 | Packs of sprouting beans are readily available and make a refreshing addition to mixed salads . |
| 29 | Gowie is given every opportunity by his teacher and his classmates to join in with the others and make a useful contribution to the school ; but every gesture of friendship he rejects . |
| 30 | In Chlorohydra viridissima , on the other hand , the algae are never absent from the tissues of the hydras , and make a useful contribution to their well-being , providing them with oxygen . |