Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hence it can be seen that tailoring a generative system to a particular domain can elicit high performance but there is a substantial effort required to tailor a system to a domain . |
| 32 | From the Arber analysis , it appears that ‘ single women are performing a caring role to a greater extent than men ’ . |
| 33 | It is owing to the fact that Christianity is a historical religion , having a necessary reference to a past period of human history , that such a discussion needs to proceed . |
| 34 | A good deal of real embarrassment can be caused by simply giving an expensive item to a journalist who knew she would not be able to write about a product in any depth but expressed a wish to buy it . |
| 35 | As we 've seen , there is no problem in imagining a continuous series of Ks connecting a single pocket to a branching set of 300 million pockets as in a modern human lung . |
| 36 | Both leads are provided , and they 're both of more than adequate length for connecting a portable PC to a desktop machine . |
| 37 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 38 | THE brother of Ipswich Town captain Dave Linighan has been accused of making a racist remark to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare . |
| 39 | The British Section is making a major commitment to a new computer system , which should both improve efficiency and help us work more flexibly with the national membership . |
| 40 | Picking out the salient points of a lengthy report , making a positive contribution to a formal meeting or an informal social gathering ; making an effective presentation or negotiating a deal that will stick … |
| 41 | There are two types of elicitation pro-cedure ; the first involves the child in making a non-verbal response to a verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's comprehension of spoken language . |
| 42 | It 's terribly difficult trying to get from them any acknowledgements that there could be something wrong about making a complimentary remark to a young woman . |
| 43 | On world trade negotiations , the leaders committed themselves to " making a full contribution to a positive outcome " of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) which was due to end in December [ see p. 37228 ] . |
| 44 | It will be understood from this brief commentary that in standard form contracts the haulier should remain on his guard and not be afraid to seek professional advice , especially on insurance matters , before making a contractual commitment to a document which , naturally , affords wide protection to the contracting party responsible for drawing it up and seeks to limit the scope of protection afforded by law for the other party . |
| 45 | But the major flaw from the constable 's point of view was the impossibility of putting a good case to a senior officer who was prosecutor , judge , and jury . |
| 46 | Two million years ago an ancestor or cousin , Australopithecus , made simple stone tools by putting a cutting edge to a pebble . |
| 47 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |
| 48 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 49 | Instead of making an outright payment to a beneficiary the trustees may decide to lend monies to a beneficiary . |
| 50 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 51 | The purpose of this policy is twofold , first as a means of achieving a more effective link between education and employment so that school leavers are old enough to take up productive work when they leave school , secondly as a means of offering a basic education to a greater number of the nation 's children and ensuring that they stay at school to complete it . |
| 52 | TATTOED Ulster women are beating a hot trail to a private clinic in Belfast — to have their ugly body art painlessly removed . |
| 53 | From the perspective of the Soviet élite , ‘ Socialist construction ’ , centralisation and Five-Year plans have been responsible for raising a backward country to a world power . |
| 54 | In their earlier period , those who preferred the inevitability of gradualness blamed him — as they did Marx — for the inadequacy of an economic theory which stopped at Ricardo ; and for proposing an instant change to a national and co-operative structure for industry which would , they considered , in the event have failed to abolish competition and Capitalism , and would have left the class structure of society unchanged except perhaps in detail . |