Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method can be combined with the previous method of dragging in as much as the blended colours can be a base to which other colours can be dragged across . |
| 2 | SARAH Parrott has become like a sister to her young friend Philip Dawson , who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
| 3 | The important difference is that the party who issues a summons for directions in a case to which automatic directions apply must be prepared to justify his summons or run the risk of losing his costs of doing so . |
| 4 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 5 | ‘ We really do need to find daytime firefighters who can provide a mainstay to their local fire station when others in the locality have to work away , ’ Mr Davis added . |
| 6 | This Document [ is issued by the Company ] and is for distribution in the United Kingdom only to persons of the kind described in Article 9(3) of the Financial Services Act 1986 ( Investment Advertisements ) ( Exemptions ) Order 1988 , as amended , or of a kind to whom this Document may otherwise lawfully be issued . |
| 7 | To have meaning the landscape must have some significance that overrides or gives direction to a response to its everyday aspect ; the actual appearance of the landscape must further an understanding of its significance in the process of making work on the spot . |
| 8 | Once again , however , Communist inability to consolidate this position can be attributed to a combination of swift and effective repression of Communism in Latin America ( partly a response to their increased support , partly due to the onset of the Cold War and the pro-US orientation of most Latin American regimes in the late 1940s and 1950s ) and failures in tactics by the parties . |
| 9 | In a response to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) on Thursday , the Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be supporting the Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill , which will come before the House on Friday , but did not clarify whether he is in favour of a ban on fox hunting . |
| 10 | These results suggest that our rhythm of sleeping and being awake — in turn a response to our rhythmic environment — causes the changes in our height . |
| 11 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 12 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 13 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
| 14 | Is a prayer to its own waters |
| 15 | They inquired the price of medieval patterned paper diaries and portfolios for the girls , and bought them small address books as a concession to their shrill demands . |
| 16 | As a concession to their unexpected winter use , special permission was obtained in 1941 to enclose the cars and partition the driver 's cabs . |
| 17 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 18 | 8 ( 1 ) In a contract to which this section applies for the letting of a house for human habitation there is implied , notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary — ( a ) a condition that the house is fit for human habitation at the commencement of the tenancy , and ( b ) an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord fit for human habitation during the tenancy . |
| 19 | When a Kachin householder makes a present to his local chief of the right hindleg of every animal he kills , he is " saying " the same thing . |
| 20 | A donation to his favourite charity if we get a copy by Wednesday evening . |
| 21 | Nominate yourself or another as a ‘ Man of Principles ’ and you could win a menswear wardrobe worth £1,000 , as well as a donation to your personal cause |
| 22 | Married New York State Judge Sol Wachtler is said to have sent socialite Joy Silverman bizarre letters and posted a condom to her 14-year-old daughter . |
| 23 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 24 | Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis . |
| 25 | Customs have reviewed their policy on staff discounts and have announced a change to their previous treatment . |
| 26 | THE Stock Exchange is considering a change to its Yellow Book rules to enable young biotechnology companies to be floated in London even if they are years away from making profits . |
| 27 | At the age of eighteen in the early '50s he was working for Rickenbacker ( and was allegedly sacked for building a guitar to his own design ) . |
| 28 | Her eyes were narrowed and her alert expression a contrast to her earlier tension . |
| 29 | Friday had come round so quickly again — such a contrast to her old life when the week had often seemed boringly endless . |
| 30 | The Moselle is a marvellous meandering river offering a contrast to its mighty cousin , the Rhine . |