Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
| 2 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 3 | If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 5 | But Jock has seen that other ‘ careers ’ are available to someone with a good command of himself . |
| 6 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 7 | To someone with a high fever , time passes slowly . |
| 8 | ‘ Because John does shift work I get very lonely and would like to write to someone in a similar position to myself , preferably living in the Sheffield area . ’ |
| 9 | Conversely , it is possible to take a sentence from a language teaching or linguistics textbook , go to the country where the language is spoken , say it to someone in a suitable situation , and achieve something by saying it . |
| 10 | The Thom case was exceptional and gave rise to something of a public outcry . |
| 11 | According to calculations by Edmund Booth , an earthquake specialist with Ove Arup and Partners , a large firm of consulting engineers based in London , the soft clay under Mexico City ‘ tuned ’ the period of the quake 's ground motion to something near a pure sine wave with a period of 2 seconds . |
| 12 | It had provided the money , and had earmarked it : the local Assembly could not have changed the plans to one for a new school or slaughterhouse . |
| 13 | An example of such an instruction is TM ( test under mask ) on the IBM 370 range , which sets the condition code ( see 3.3 ) to indicate the presence of none , some , or all bits set to one in a masked portion of a byte . |
| 14 | Like acid and E , cannabis can cause psychosis to anybody with a disturbed personality , although this only occurs in extreme cases . |
| 15 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 16 | Criticize positively and constructively everything you 're made of and everything you do ( but do n't destroy yourself in the process — you are no use to anyone as a nervous wreck with an inferiority complex ) . |
| 17 | I recommend this book enthusiastically to anyone with a professional interest in chemistry . |
| 18 | The government refused to concede one and counterattacked with assertions that the Police Complaints Board and civil courts are open to anyone with a genuine experience of improper treatment . |
| 19 | A taxi driver , teacher or taxidermist need not feel inferior to anyone with a high profile , high rating , high budget ministry . |
| 20 | PAR reports , as with so many other government reports , are classified and are not available to anyone except a small number of ministers and senior civil servants . |
| 21 | Neither the college 's report nor Kay 's and Smith 's articles amount to anything like a valid review of clinical ecology — still less does the use in court , against the college 's wishes , of a draft report that was subsequently withdrawn as being unsatisfactory . |