Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 2 | An oscillator moulded under plastiskin to her throat vibrated her larynx to some official 's voice-pattern . |
| 3 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 4 | Gossip which might have remained merely an irritation led by accident to altogether more dangerous consequences . |
| 5 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 6 | Another well known example is the line of cases headed by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , where the House of Lords said that the court should not exercise its inherent jurisdiction to supervise the exercise of a discretion within an area committed by statute to a local authority . |
| 7 | Another well known example is the line of cases headed by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , where the House of Lords said that the court should not exercise its inherent jurisdiction to supervise the exercise of discretion within an area committed by statute to a local authority . |
| 8 | Those families in which a parent died from an illness known in advance to be terminal seemed to be better able to respond to the needs of their children , and to prepare them for the loss with information and emotional support . |
| 9 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 10 | You can use this function to convert an angle expressed in degrees to radians before using one of the angle functions ( SIN , COS , etc ) . |
| 11 | You can use this function to convert an angle expressed in radians to degrees . |