Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last might seem to be an asset if you are trying to lose weight , but in actual fact it merely acts as a mask to the body 's natural craving for food . |
| 2 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 3 | Although the single-section filters covered in this chapter are quite important , their treatment merely serves as an introduction to the vast subject of filters . |
| 4 | Endlessly , this pattern repeated endlessly , and the man could walk along and they 'd all be working , he just goes with an assistant to er repair broken threads . |
| 5 | For many critics of the existing Constitution , parliamentary sovereignty no longer constitutes an encouragement to the rule of law but rather exists as an impediment to its attainment . |
| 6 | Always insists on a room to herself with a lock on the door . ’ |
| 7 | Appraisal usually occurs in a face to face meeting between two individuals . |
| 8 | He usually comes as a stranger to the affairs of a company which has sunk to its financial doom . |
| 9 | IT ALWAYS COMES as a surprise to Nancy Kominsky that so many people still remember her for her television series in the late 1970s . |
| 10 | Lauda , who also acts as a consultant to the Ferrari F1 team , has shown an inclination to name his aircraft after famous musicians . |
| 11 | In all of these cases — anxiety , blood pressure , or psychotic temperament — the underlying trait , as well as describing differences between people , also acts as a disposition to the appropriate dysfunction to which it contributes . |
| 12 | It is the period during which a boy or girl also grows from a child to an adult in body , mind and personality — a considerable transformation . |
| 13 | This probably sounds like a run-up to a full-scale attack on Oxford and academic knowledge . |
| 14 | The Thule legend also speaks of an island to the North as the centre of a vanished civilization who possessed great esoteric knowledge . |
| 15 | In newsrooms libel is the greatest inhibition upon freedom of speech , although it also serves as a spur to accuracy and professionalism . |
| 16 | The book also serves as a guide to local phrases , translating some of the broader Gloucestershire dialect . |
| 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 | About 18 months ago , she became aware of the successful development of sales of the product in Germany and Sweden and began her project which now hinges on a decision to be made by Perth and Kinross District council today . |
| 19 | The declining demand for labour in agriculture even militates against a move to a higher paid job within the industry itself . |
| 20 | The ease with which even the bourgeois travel nowadays comes as an agony to one who has ‘ the Bosphorus in the soul ’ . |
| 21 | Each then acts as a template to which other simpler molecules become attached until each has once more become a double helix . |
| 22 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 23 | Yes , it definitely looks like a chance to me … |
| 24 | It therefore acts as a springboard to freedom . |
| 25 | The integrator input therefore shifts from a LOW to HIGH state , as shown in Fig. 6.14(b) , and the integration commences . |