Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussion so far might suggest the following definition : a public function is a function peculiar to government , or a function not peculiar to government the performance of which has an important impact on society at large . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's hope he 's a bit more receptive to accident prevention than the last one , ’ said Ron cryptically as Rachel made her way to the back of the room amid a murmur of amused assent . |
| 3 | Among the images of angels is a genre apparently unique to South America , even to the Andes , the Angels with Guns . |
| 4 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 5 | Diadora , a brand more familiar to football players , is aiming to make an impact among runners with two shoes offering its new Double Action technology . |
| 6 | The third policy issue is of a nature more specific to management development . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 8 | But now the Mirror album gives those who missed out a chance to see ALL the pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting in a manner most unbecoming to Royalty . |
| 9 | I tentatively infer from the paper cited above that the strategy which worked best for Hearsay-II — the W algorithm — explored the search space in a manner very similar to HARPY 's beam search , particularly as the same finite-state grammar was used in both cases . |
| 10 | A strategy formally identical to Grudger was entered in Axelrod 's tournament under the name of Friedman , and it did n't do particularly well . |
| 11 | Task 1 could be the interrogation of a database file to produce a list of customers in a geographical area , selecting fields relevant to the task and listing them in a format most useful to area sales reps . |
| 12 | The manipulation of tables of data such as the census data used in the example in the preceding paragraph is a problem not unique to geography . |
| 13 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 14 | The Conservatives , in contrast , have always been a party more accustomed to government and less interested in theories , but they have been equally class identified . |