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Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A trial to show a clear difference in death rates between men on the old and new dietary patterns would have needed somewhere between 25 000 and 115000 volunteers and would have cost between $0.5 and 1 billion , even at 1971 prices .
2	Pembrey 's findings were that the role model was important in helping a sister to develop a good management style .
3	‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’
4	Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick .
5	A crucial breaking-point came in 1983 , when the Labour councillors first took a decision to support a small steel firm and save around sixty jobs , but later withdrew their support leaving the firm to collapse .
6	One of these was in 1905 — a decision to purchase a new set of wheels and axles from Gwynnes for £60 .
7	One of the judges , Lord Chief Justice Lawton , then inquired whether this meant that the Attorney General was entitled to consider the political trouble which would be caused by a decision to enforce a particular law .
8	Talk of a summit was not popular in Washington , but Soviet–American exchanges finally resulted in a decision to hold a four-power conference in Paris in May 1960 .
9	The founding instrument may be a royal charter ( BBC or the research councils ) ; a Treasury Minute ( University Grants Committee ) ; the articles of a non-profit company ( National Consumer Council ) ; or , more humbly , but apparently almost as effectively , a mere Answer in the House , a memorandum from the Minister to himself , a wave of the hand , or whatever else may signify a decision to establish a new body ( Schools Council , Technician and Business Education Councils and that unusual ‘ central–local government voluntary ’ body , the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ) .
10	We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations .
11	A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) .
12	A decision to make a marginal increase in the school 's contact ratio , in order , say , to purchase administrative and clerical assistance in the recording of assessments ( probably a sensible response to the demands of the new curriculum ) will affect the conditions of service of every teacher .
13	A decision to veto a Single Currency must therefore be accompanied by one permanently to leave the ERM .
14	Once a decision to adopt a stratified sampling scheme is made it becomes necessary to decide how the n units in the sample should be allocated to strata .
15	They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses .
16	If a police officer has to request a driver to produce a current test certificate , the officer must bear in mind the problem of proving the date of first registration .
17	The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces .
18	The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces .
19	‘ Working class ’ people may wish to see their interests favoured over those of the ‘ middle classes ’ but they are unlikely , in general terms , to see this conflict as a struggle to displace a ruling class .
20	It was a struggle to find a suitable term for these logical objects — the term ‘ logical object ’ is not in itself one to set the blood tingling .
21	A good starting salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered and a willingness to make a positive contribution to the overall success of this highly innovative and rapidly growing company will be reflected in future remuneration .
22	We will discuss how the model works by considering how one might go about producing a sentence to describe a particular event , the event taking place in Figure 14 .
23	This is where the skills of skimming a text to gain a general impression , and scanning to glean specific points , are very useful , and it is at this point within the process of finding information that they would perhaps most effectively be taught .
24	The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception .
25	The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data .
26	How about the view that in order for a computer to produce a real work of art , it would have to want to produce that art ?
27	It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength .
28	As an example , contrast a contract to paint the whole of a house , but containing a clause exempting the contractor from liability if he fails to paint certain parts ( caught under s 3(2) ( a ) ) , and a contract to paint a whole house with the exception of certain parts ( not caught ) .
29	General Motors Corp 's Hughes Network Systems Inc has a contract to build a digital network for fixed telephone and cellular phones in Chengdu , the capital Sichuan Province in the People 's Republic of China : the initial contract , which is worth $15m , will serve more than 20,000 subscribers and expansions of the network will eventually serve 100,000 subscribers ; the entire Chengdu network is set to go on line in November ; Hughes is also building a similar network in Tatarstan , in the Russian Republic .
30	Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake .