Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 2 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 3 | The Norwegians certainly had the measure of this splendid music , each player contributing a full quota to a very relaxed and very rewarding performance , with only the damping effect of the Elmwood Hall 's heavy window curtains a minus factor . |
| 4 | As we saw in the previous section , a great problem for rule-based hypothesize-and-test systems is the difficulty of matching a higher-level description to a partially determined representation of the input . |
| 5 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 6 | Such wide disparities in the social marginal cost of life-saving suggest that society might achieve significant gains in allocative efficiency by adopting an integrated approach to a cost-benefit analysis of health and safety regulations . |
| 7 | ‘ The legal advice required has varied from transacting a management buy-out and dismissing a senior director to a host of commercial contracts . |
| 8 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 9 | In fact this is the whole point of introducing D. By assigning a relative permittivity to a dielectric material all these problems have been taken care of . |
| 10 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 11 | The first byes of the match eluded keeper Healy at 172 , the same score at which Manjrekar departed , run out after attempting a quick single to a Warne misfield . |
| 12 | The problem of securing a round dome to a square plane was solved in Mesopotamia some 4000 years ago , using the spherical pendentive . |
| 13 | Both political and economic factors influence the AL of maintaining a safe environment to a very great degree . |
| 14 | Within this programme , what appears in the formal recommendations as an academic or school subject , in fact consists of approved principles and methods for cultural intervention into popular linguistic practices with the overall purpose of generating a subjective attachment to a particular sense of national identity . |
| 15 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 16 | Boiled down , it all comes to inhibiting a particular reaction to a given stimulus — but no one will see it that way . |
| 17 | The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth . |
| 18 | If you are sending a personal letter to a person at their place of employment and you wish that person only to open it , the envelope and letter should be marked PERSONAL . |
| 19 | Thus lectures might be suitable for providing a general introduction to a course on information retrieval . |
| 20 | The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law . |
| 21 | It is envisaged that MAS specialists should have the capability of providing a total service to a client . |
| 22 | The natives say CalMac is providing a vital service to a remote part of the country ; leave it be . |
| 23 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 24 | A series of bipartite agreements , each allocating a particular territory to a retailer would be treated entirely differently from a ( registrable ) multipartite agreement regarding exclusivity , though it may have the same effect . |
| 25 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 27 | This is why the idea of grinding a good gouge to a skew shape was never very popular . |
| 28 | the , the in-house , friendly at atmosphere we 've had up to now , er non-competitive , across to what we 're gon na see in the future , in the future , which is competitive with a professional client giving a professional remit to a number of tenderers , which will be us . |
| 29 | The eyes especially were beautiful ; very large , their ovals faintly twisted , a cool doe 's eyes , almond eyes , giving a natural mystery to a face otherwise so regular that it risked perfection . |
| 30 | The notion of giving a helping hand to a new literature produced against these overwhelming odds would naturally appear to her to be anathema . |