Example sentences of "an [noun] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No staff do it short term or as an addition to their normal job . |
| 2 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
| 3 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 4 | But then , unless the fascination is too powerful , there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit , as though breaking a spell , turns in an instant to its other resource flight . |
| 5 | I could not quite remember their identities , but were those currently in statu pupillare to be assembled in a décontractée atmosphere — rather like , say , a police line-up — I felt sure that the whole matter could be discussed as an appendix to their weekly class ‘ Britain in the 1980s ’ . |
| 6 | Many individuals and even whole people are living in conditions which are ‘ an insult to their innate dignity . ’ |
| 7 | The blow to English arms was bitter , and he felt it as an insult to his own person . |
| 8 | Considering the recent near-miraculous developments in fibre technology which mean that synthetic fabrics can now imitate everything from silk to rubber while they absorb sweat , change colour , fill in your tax returns and remix Michael Jackson singles , polyester and cotton ( at the cutting edge of style in about 1953 ) is an insult to our national game . |
| 9 | It 's so unkind , and is such an insult to your own people . |
| 10 | The EP will also appoint an Ombudsman to whom European citizens and residents will have access for redress in cases of maladministration . |
| 11 | Healthy development in women was thus signified by an attachment to their prescribed sphere and by the manifestation of moral virtue . |
| 12 | Elton 's emphasis on women 's health issues ( the horrors of cervical smears etc ) is an antidote to his underlying laddishness . |
| 13 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 14 | There needs to be a facility whereby , when one is looking at a particular cross-reference , one can call up the entry or part of an entry to which that cross-reference refers . |
| 15 | Without committing itself to any firm numbers yet , the company made an analogy to its new database , Access , which lists for $495 and was discounted to $99 for its debut . |
| 16 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 17 | The imputation system in the limit corresponds to integrationist views and offsets the double taxation effect by imputing corporation tax paid to dividend recipients as an offset to their personal liability to tax from that source . |
| 18 | Another consequence was that the TUC was forced to push through its reorganization and to form the General Council , an alternative to its Parliamentary Committee , as its executive body . |
| 19 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 20 | Suffice it to conclude that there is overwhelming evidence that the external information delivered to those who might use it as an aid to their strategic decision making will tend actually to be used to the extent that it matches the detailed task being undertaken and its context . |
| 21 | I shouted at him , ‘ Ya , Zebbie the Coalpicker ’ , and he chased me with an axe to our back door . |
| 22 | The Silmarillion by contrast seems to be trying to persuade us to see death potentially as a gift or reward — an attitude to which other authors in this sceptical age have felt drawn . |
| 23 | Perhaps this is because all these changes affected middle class feminists , and middle class feminists have always been an embarrassment to their radical sisters who feel the movement would be purer if all its adherents were working class or women of colour . |
| 24 | The mujaheddin 's medieval behaviour , whatever its interest to future historians , has become an embarrassment to its staunchest supporters , the United States , Pakistan and Britain . |
| 25 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 26 | Music can only be judged on the basis of an attentiveness to its musical essence as sensitive and discriminating as possible . |
| 27 | For the congregation , musicians and clergy involved , it provides an incentive to their best efforts which may not be so marked at other times . |
| 28 | If you are concerned about death benefits , you should certainly consider an alteration to your existing policy to change it into a plan which meets your needs . |
| 29 | It 's nicer still if the table changes in the word processor when you make an alteration to your original spreadsheet . |
| 30 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |