Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 2 | Thus regions may make a case for transport links with the Tunnel on the grounds that current levels of business demand it , but may not request them as a necessary precondition to the creation of that demand . |
| 3 | I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth , to home life , to country and to religion . |
| 4 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 5 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 6 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 7 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 8 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 9 | Sounds to me like a similar performance to that of the West Ham match , except norwich are better at getting you on the break cos that is how they play . |
| 10 | Is n't she like a little sister to him ? " |
| 11 | I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long . |
| 12 | They allow for cross-referencing and can provide you with a ready guide to your goals and the tasks you need to do to carry them out . |
| 13 | This puts you in a strong position to counter-attack . |
| 14 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 15 | Indeed , he has invited both of you to a special tournament to be held at Smithfield the day after next and , following that , later in the evening , a banquet in the Savoy Palace . |
| 16 | Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce . |
| 17 | He looked at me with a quizzical lift to his eyebrows . |
| 18 | Luckily Ross had at last managed to convince the superintendent of the large apartment block that they had a genuine , urgent need to enter the building — and to supply them with a spare key to the front door . |
| 19 | these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a |
| 20 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 21 | After the bloody war of independence which ended in 1962 , the pieds noirs left everything — houses , belongings , money — behind them in a mass exodus to France , arriving in their thousands by boat in Marseilles . |
| 22 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 23 | Having counted them ( there were 95 ) and gone back to Washington , he handed them in a rolled-up newspaper to Secord in the lobby of the Sheraton Carlton hotel . |
| 24 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 25 | Geoffrey says he 's considering writing another letter to the Prime Minister asking him for a proper reply to his questions . |
| 26 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 27 | Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause . |
| 28 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 29 | On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces . |
| 30 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |