Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] an [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 2 | Thus one rule changes an active construction to a passive : [ 4 ] Columbus discovered American America was discovered by Columbus . |
| 3 | Again , the term implies an essential uniqueness to the period , a time of conflict marked out as distinct from other periods of social , political and religious fracture . |
| 4 | Filmed entirely on location in and around Oxford , the setting provides an attractive backdrop to learning . |
| 5 | The defender blocks an attempted punch to the face . |
| 6 | Visually , the beautiful ashlar-faced , portland stone facade makes an interesting contrast to the towers , turrets and dormers of the Gonville and Caius College building to the right of our illustration . |
| 7 | That college provides an excellent education to many pupils in Bradford . |
| 8 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 9 | The Council has an aggressive approach to the promotion of pedestrian safety through many of its works programmes particularly in the areas of Pelican Crossing , refuse island and dropped kerb provision . |
| 10 | ‘ That young lady means an awful lot to me . ’ ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Fragrant Frames ’ now means those obvious-looking room fresheners and sprays can be dispensed with and in their place goes an elegant addition to any wall . |
| 12 | Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom . |
| 13 | This excursion offers an interesting alternative to the ever-popular classic testpiece of the Pennines — the Marsden to Edale bogtrot . |
| 14 | This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention . |
| 15 | Ethology 's assertion that male aggression has an instinctive basis to it has a close parallel with those radical feminists such as Dworkin who argue that males are inherently and innately violent . |
| 16 | The majority team has an automatic resistance to being displaced , simply by virtue of being in the majority . |
| 17 | This punishment has an obvious appropriateness to the crime , because Plato in the Laws ( 871a ) recommends that murderers , another category of ‘ polluted ’ offender , be excluded from the ‘ harbour and the agora ’ . |
| 18 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
| 19 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |
| 20 | The duration of totality at each observing site provides an important clue to the size of the Moon 's shadow on the Earth , and thereby to the size of the Sun at the time of the eclipse . |
| 21 | The fax modem offers an affordable solution to many of the conventional fax machine 's shortcomings . |
| 22 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 , Lord Atkinson said " … no person has an abstract right to be protected against competition per se in his trade or business " . |
| 23 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 24 | One primary head makes an annual visit to local playgroups to present each child with a balloon , a colouring book , some crayons and a school prospectus . |
| 25 | Existing US Administration policy represents an inadequate response to the threat of global warming , according to a report presented to the US Congress by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington . |
| 26 | Open learning involves an individualised approach to meeting the needs of the learner ; he or she need not then be part of a larger formal group treated as one unit . |
| 27 | But the next example shows an effective alternative to the use of the explicit marker ‘ he thought ’ : |
| 28 | To succeed in such an environment requires an innovative approach to business . |
| 29 | As is his wont , the novelist delivers an appropriate come-uppance to not-so-eminent Edwardians who adopt the pompous manners of the Empire and refuse to acknowledge that the rest of the world is due to move on . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the cocking action that begins a back fist movement presents an unmistakable cue to the opponent . |