Example sentences of "to [det] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In childhood children run wild , are subject to little or no educative influence and are generally indulged . |
| 2 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 3 | They say improvement to that and the existing road bridge would remove the need for a new one altogether |
| 4 | We need to examine the case for it in relation to each and every old person , whose circumstances vary so greatly . |
| 5 | And it may be a comforting thought to some that an Australian company is experimenting with eco-friendly coffins made of newspapers , which are cheap and biodegradable . |
| 6 | The establishment of the UK clearinghouse was one response to this but the British Library Research and Development Department itself , through its deliberations on its programme of research and development in user education , has to some extent been a co-ordinating influence , though with a low profile . |
| 7 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 8 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 9 | Most elderly people find that the visiting officers are friendly , patient , and helpful , and although it is not necessary for a relative to be present , no objection will be raised to this if the elderly person wishes it . |
| 10 | Only a few minshuku are geared to this and a Japanese breakfast of salted fish , rice and miso ( soup ) is all that is available . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the flood of letters of a very different sort from anxious Hong Kong citizens to this and every other newspaper office continues . |
| 12 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 13 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 14 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 15 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 16 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 17 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 18 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 19 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 20 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 21 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 22 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 23 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 24 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 25 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 26 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 27 | The father of the future Lord Haw-Haw was required to ‘ renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any and every foreign prince , potentate , state and sovereignty whatever , and particularly to the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , whose subject he has heretofore been . ’ |