Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 2 | This was a necessity to qualify for a later call to the Bar . |
| 3 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 4 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 5 | But manager Maurice Setters knows his side have a struggle to qualify from a tough section — Germany are the other team in five-nation group three . |
| 6 | Following a survey for the Widdicombe Committee , Professor Miller concluded that ‘ very few respondents declared a willingness to vote in a local election for the major party they opposed nationally ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , III : 106 ) . |
| 7 | Conformity to rules relies primarily upon compliance , upon a willingness to work within a regulated framework which Etzioni has suggested rests either upon acceptance of a ‘ utilitarian ’ financial bargain or upon a ‘ normative ’ commitment . |
| 8 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |
| 9 | As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word . |
| 10 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 11 | A few months later , he accepted a contract to play for a Canadian football team . |
| 12 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 13 | The association was founded in 1965 ( on 21 June , from which it takes its name ) , when some 80% of all school teachers staged a demonstration to protest against a new " Law of Retirements " , which increased by one third the period of service necessary to qualify for a pension . |
| 14 | This is considered to be the minimum needed to allow a GIS to function in a mixed data environment . |
| 15 | It goes like this : we could easily train a parrot to respond to a certain signal with the words ‘ Going to the bank ’ . |
| 16 | Unfortunately not , that would have been too clearcut , too unambiguous a crime to cast before a Scottish court . |
| 17 | He once won a scholarship to go on a German banking state tour . |
| 18 | If the teacher explains the aims and objectives of the foreign-language course and the methods to be employed to attain them , he may transform this attitude into a readiness to learn by a certain method . |
| 19 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 20 | The student is expected to acquire knowledge and has also to prove a capacity for wide reading and understanding , an up-to-date awareness of the state of both debate and development in educational ideas , a capacity to criticize in a constructive way and an overall capacity to link those skills with collecting and analysing data and with the planning of projects . |
| 21 | If you expect a child to write about a personal experience , engagement with that experience has to be regarded as a priority . |
| 22 | I will attempt to accommodate shortlisted parties preferences as to the dates of their review but you should anticipate a requirement to work to a tight timescale . |
| 23 | Though keen rivals , such gangs have a propensity to combine against a common enemy . |
| 24 | The program allows you then to create your own sluices — up to five — so that you can define a sluice to coincide with a specific syllabus ( ‘ all year 3 vocabulary ’ or ‘ all unit 15 vocabulary ’ , for example ) or with a specific technical field ( ‘ all words to do with engineering/banking/tourism/etc ’ ) . |
| 25 | ACTRESS Helen Mirren is facing a battle to star in a big-screen version of TV 's award-winning thriller Prime Suspect . |
| 26 | Students are admitted into a faculty to study for a particular degree . |
| 27 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 28 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
| 29 | The grant of a right to park in a defined area takes effect as a legal easement ( Newman v Jones ( 1982 ) unreported ; London and Blenheim Estates v Ladbroke Retail Parks [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 1278 ) . |
| 30 | In addition , the tenant should be granted a right to park in a delineated area , subject to the availability of space from time to time . |