Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before or since equalled for its length , number of sets and sheer volume of visual effects , this twelve part story remains a testament to the skills , planning and resourcefulness of Doctor Who 's most formative Director , Douglas Camfield , now sadly deceased . |
| 2 | As a family Queen 's Park Baptist Church means a lot to us , and it is good to be going into this task with such a strong church behind us . |
| 3 | At the other end of the scale , the relocation company assigns a counsellor to the family who assesses their requirements and provides a hand-held viewing schedule . |
| 4 | Similarly , when life sentences are reviewed , the trial judge makes a recommendation to the parole board but complaints have been made that too frequently junior Ministers in the Home Office depart from the recommendation , usually by increasing the length of the period of imprisonment . |
| 5 | Apparently she thinks his pruning technique leaves a lot to be desired . ’ |
| 6 | On the village green stands a memorial to the poet . |
| 7 | Type Module allows a user to quickly display the contents of a LIFESPAN module . |
| 8 | The IOR rule gives a benefit to larger mainsail areas versus adding sail area to the foretriangle . |
| 9 | Too often the reason that a project fails is that the team leader enters a department to be met by its manager who sees someone only equal , if not subordinate , in status and , fearing an incursion on his empire , makes it nigh impossible to achieve progress . |
| 10 | Adding a new approval record constitutes a revision to the module . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the incongruence of rRNA-based phylogenies with molecular trees derived from elongation factors or DNA-dependent RNA polymerases presents a challenge to molecular evolutionists . |
| 12 | Mr X who is fully within the UK inheritance tax regime makes a gift to the settlement . |
| 13 | The LOB collocation dictionary makes a contribution to the recognition process that is significant to the 95% confidence level . |
| 14 | At present ( autumn 1989 ) the British education system resembles an ant-hill to which a boot has just administered an energetic kick . |
| 15 | A Court Scheme represents an alternative to a takeover offer as a method of acquiring control of a public company . |
| 16 | Because a Court Scheme involves an application to the court for approval it makes it a more time-consuming , expensive and cumbersome procedure than a takeover offer . |
| 17 | The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide . |
| 18 | Syllabus Design provides an introduction to language syllabus planning for teachers who want to gain a better understanding of the subject in order to develop the skills to evaluate , modify , and adapt the syllabuses with which they work . |
| 19 | The sensible use of back-up material provides an opportunity to be really selective in the material sent to particular media . |
| 20 | Where a judgment has been set aside or reversed , the county court office sends a certificate to that effect to the registry to cancel any entry if it has been registered . |
| 21 | The latest in Kingfisheries ' video series covers a trip to a number of Thailand fish farms . |
| 22 | Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier . |
| 23 | With a hardware.intensive approach this level of control sophistication is not usually available and the control circuit generates an approximation to the optimal operating condition , e.g. the acceleration/deceleration velocity profiles are approximated by linear ramp functions . |
| 24 | In cases involving the supply of goods ( which is the only case where consumer status makes a difference to the effect of a term in a standard term contract ) the definition is , of course , restricted by the third limb of the definition of " consumer " : the buyer only deals as a consumer if the goods are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 25 | To cause minimum inconvenience to the locals , the flight commander calls an end to the tactical phase of the exercise and we begin a climb from What is colloquially known as the ‘ weedosphere ’ up to the dizzy height of 1,000 feet . |
| 26 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 27 | A Freedom Fighter fires a bullet to an enemy group consisting of twelve soldiers and three civilians all equally exposed to the bullet . |
| 28 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
| 29 | A WIN on the Daily Mirror 's sparkling Diamond Bingo means a trip to Euro Disney is on the cards for David Hughes 's eight grandchildren . |
| 30 | However , the current legislation and Government policy requires a level to be set and the present level is reluctantly accepted on that basis . ’ |