Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chimpanzee scanned a tray of objects and went to a keyboard out of view of the tray and pressed a symbol corresponding to one of the objects . |
| 2 | It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Imports fell from December 's record £5.44 billion last month , but at £5.32 billion were still well ahead of exports and led to a visible trade deficit of £1.02 billion , the third-biggest ever . |
| 5 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 6 | The move , which the Germans refused to discuss , reversed the outflow of funds and led to a fall in Finnish interest rates as the market opened yesterday . |
| 7 | The text goes on to make clear that the same elaborate rules of impurity apply to any discharge of blood that occurs to a woman outside of her regular menstruation . |
| 8 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 9 | This chapter considers the financial consequences of community care policies for those women on whom such policies increasingly depend — the mothers , daughters , wives , sisters , neighbours and friends who are providing a substantial amount of help and support to a disabled or elderly person . |
| 10 | Elicitation procedures rely upon present perceptions and judgments as a starting point and encourage the kinds of reconsideration that lead to a wider realization of experience . |
| 11 | The present project uses a vector chain method known as Freeman Encoding , which codes letters into sequences of strokes that conform to a number ( usually 8 ) of preset geometric directions . |
| 12 | Chuck , say , a 150mm cube of wood and turn to a cone . |
| 13 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 14 | And there was a ripple of laughter that grew to a delighted roar as the words Great Missin 'em time passed from mouth to mouth . |
| 15 | I am less concerned to focus on the psychopathology of individuals than to point to a collective , cultural condition ‘ and the tendencies of people who make it up ’ ( May , 1969 ) . |
| 16 | Also , the traumas of the Vietnam War and civil liberties clashes caused a crisis of confidence and led to a questioning frame of mind , which was ready for the idiosyncratic and difficult to interpret images made by Friedlander and his contemporaries . |
| 17 | They have a legal duty to investigate such complaints and legal powers , if necessary , to remove a child to a place of safety and apply to a court for a ‘ care order ’ . |
| 18 | They finally chose the agency that dreamed up a well-known series of ads that appealed to a deeply buried vein of female exhibitionism : ‘ I dreamed I stopped the traffic in my Maidenform Bra ’ ( she wore nothing else ) . |
| 19 | This " minimum standards " approach leads to a number of problems when applied to a complex and rapidly changing area of technology . |
| 20 | Show the transport manager with one of his fleet of lorries or talking to a driver , the canteen manageress in the kitchen or the sales director at a briefing session . |
| 21 | Pontikes also had direct personal experience due to a $500,000 investment in Saul Steinberg 's Reliance Capital Group Limited Partnership , a buyout and arbitrage firm with a roster of investors that amounted to a Who 's Who Among The Self-Made Rich . |
| 22 | It may often seem that some critical practitioners within established disciplinary frameworks which insist on treating literary texts as documents or , oppositely , as eternal works of art or according to a closely defined theoretical structure , proffer pronouncements on texts and history which are exclusively self-confident and definitive . |
| 23 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 24 | Tommy told Los Angeles police his Ranger went out of control and skidded to a halt within inches of plunging off a Hollywood Hills cliff . |
| 25 | Suddenly , in slow motion , the stern rope slackened and the hairdresser was teetering , valiantly to begin with , but inevitably out of control and doomed to a watery safety-netless future . |
| 26 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 27 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 28 | The men chortled lewdly , as Estelle conjured up a trickle of pee that turned to a stream , and splashed into the tumbler like a miniature Niagara . |
| 29 | did neglect ( or refuse ) to stop the vehicle ( or to make the vehicle proceed in a particular line of traffic or to make the vehicle keep to a particular line of traffic or to proceed to a particular point ) |
| 30 | ‘ did neglect ( or refuse ) to stop the vehicle ( or to make the vehicle proceed in a particular line of traffic or to make the vehicle keep to a particular line of traffic or to proceed to a particular point ) ’ This phrase means : |