Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks like a mum to Babur . |
| 2 | And as Hopkins writes in a letter to Bridges : ‘ Now it is the virtue of design , pattern , or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer . ’ |
| 3 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 4 | The five CMHTs varied greatly in their precise method of operation and these variations were hotly debated among themselves at times , but they all engaged in service development and came to see the generation of personal treatment plans as a prelude to service development rather than as being constrained by the existing service stock . |
| 5 | John Jevons , Clwyd 's social services director , says in a report to councillors today that a plan would be thrashed out to best meet the needs of individuals based on the residents ' reaction . |
| 6 | Company chairman John Collier says in a letter to Greenpeace that special measures are being introduced to monitor the state of the tubes but there is no intention to replace the reactor head . |
| 7 | As Meaulnes says in a letter to Seurel , death alone will give him ‘ the key , the sequence and the end of this adventure that failed ’ . |
| 8 | Appraisal usually occurs in a face to face meeting between two individuals . |
| 9 | That is left to Denethor , who will not fight to the last , but turns like a heathen to suicide and the sacrifice of his kin . |
| 10 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 11 | It therefore acts as a springboard to freedom . |
| 12 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |
| 13 | Patients with a minor degree of atlantoaxial subluxation or with subaxial subluxation need treatment only with a soft cervical collar — which provides symptomatic relief , acts as a reminder to patient and doctor , and may provide some degree of protection from trauma . |
| 14 | For it is assumed that God , who is conceived in highly anthropomorphic terms , has given what amounts to a blueprint to humanity as to what His will may be . |
| 15 | This religion often proves a great attraction to the romantic who is tired of concrete and high-power technology , and yearns for a return to nature . |
| 16 | Mr Appleyard , who travels with a convoy to Poland later this month , thanked two fruiterers Hardy 's of Middlesbrough and Mason 's of Stockton for giving apples , oranges and eggs . |
| 17 | The weekly motoring experience of Mr Dempsey ( ‘ We 're in it together ’ , 28 October ) presumably consists of a trip to Tesco 's in a car covered with ‘ I 've been to Blackpool ’ stickers and furry dice dangling from the mirror . |
| 18 | Is it perhaps an identity taken from the white bearskin rug on his study floor ( which he first mentions in a letter to Louise Colet of August 1846 , telling her that he likes to stretch out on it during the day . |
| 19 | The Garden , under its Director Professor D.S. Ingram , specialises in taxonomic botany , which serves as a backbone to studies of biodiversity , biotechnology , and applied botanical research , as well as to plant physiology , genetics and many other plant-based sciences . |
| 20 | Located in the tiny village of Skinningrove , it serves as a memorial to Tom Leonard , whose vast collection of relics form the basis of a series of displays and recreations of the harsh life of the ironstone miners . |
| 21 | The point serves as a corrective to behaviourist tendencies in general , and therefore to Behaviouralism in International Relations , since it undermines a main reason for holding that science must stick to observable behaviour . |
| 22 | In newsrooms libel is the greatest inhibition upon freedom of speech , although it also serves as a spur to accuracy and professionalism . |
| 23 | A camel poses for a tourist to Egypt in the 1950s . |
| 24 | Internal audit is defined as an ‘ independent appraisal within a department which operates as a service to management by measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of the internal control system ’ ( para . |
| 25 | The improper claim remains as a spur to terrorists , proxy bombers for those who see the claim as a ’ constitutional imperative ’ . |
| 26 | Ignorant men regard death with fear and avoid thinking about it , and for that reason it becomes like a terror to children . |
| 27 | Huw Richard 's series continues with a visit to Peter Wynne-Thomas at Trent Bridge |
| 28 | It is likely that had Smart completed his revisions and published the work he would have included an explanatory preface , as he does in A Song to David and the psalms translation . |
| 29 | Similarly , the declining firm has a share price of only 4.75 and sells at a multiple to earnings of only 2.50 , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a share price of 47.07 and sells at a multiple to earnings of nearly 19 . |
| 30 | Similarly , the declining firm has a share price of only 4.75 and sells at a multiple to earnings of only 2.50 , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a share price of 47.07 and sells at a multiple to earnings of nearly 19 . |