Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 2 | WASIM AKRAM grabbed six wickets to send Surrey crashing to a 96-run defeat at The Oval to set Lancashire up for their Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final at Leicestershire today . |
| 3 | You will see that I placed the two arrangements diagonally opposite from each other , but of course you can alter this to a continuous design around the edge , leaving the centre of the mirror free , or simply decorate the bottom of the mirror , leaving the rest free for its original purpose ! |
| 4 | Sexual responsiveness to a familiar member of the opposite sex may not be zero — particularly when the time allotted to searching for an alternative has run out . |
| 5 | Our task as editors of this book is to make these social contexts explicit and our own intentions to contribute to a critical discussion of the inner city issue , which challenges the meanings of the powerful , as open as possible . |
| 6 | The critical approach to knowledge leads to a critical perspective on the knowledge acquired , so that the individual comes , as it were , to put brackets round it . |
| 7 | The individual and Society strand introduces students to a critical understanding of the relationship between the individual and society in the modern world . |
| 8 | The knowledge gained is concerned with the history of the development of the built environment and , as in other disciplines , the resulting insights contribute both to a critical understanding of the present day , and to the formulation of strategies for future development . |
| 9 | In the introduction he had written in reference to Jakobson and Jones " s " shakespeare 's verbal art in Th'expence of spirit " that " There is too much information , not all of which is relevant to a critical understanding of the text " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 10 | It is therefore to be expected that where an animal had been classified as ferae naturae at common law it will be regarded as belonging to a dangerous species under the Act ( e.g . |
| 11 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 12 | One could attempt to limit the " period of difficulty " to the two years by having a declaration of solvency ( if applicable ) sworn by the husband at the same time as he makes the conveyance ( see Chapter 10 , Precedent 81 ) and hope that that is acceptable to a prospective purchaser from the wife between the expiry of the two years and five year period . |
| 13 | I chatted to a Dublin-bound nurse in the seat beside me , and looked out as lakes , rivers and deeply-furrowed potato patches flashed by . |
| 14 | And , flushed with success , they treated Sam and his mother to a celebratory ride round the block before leaving the pair to get down to the essential business of a trip to the shops for a new plastic seat . |
| 15 | MICHAEL STICH exploded a warning shot over his Wimbledon rivals yesterday as he stormed to a crushing victory in the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 16 | Doubters among the party 's membership will argue that the combined Brown and Tsongas vote against Mr Clinton confirms their fears that questions about his character will lead to a crushing defeat at the hands of President Bush . |
| 17 | Joanne specialises in town and country planning and is currently involved in work relating to a major development in the town centre . |
| 18 | These matters spilled over into the British Psychological Society and eventually in 1951–52 led to a major row on the benefits of psychoanalysis , which meant that the relationship between scientific developments and educational practice became further confused . |
| 19 | Or were there other possibilities for serious malfunction leading to a major release of the reactor 's ‘ inventory ’ of radioactive material ? |
| 20 | The proportion of the final value of silk goods returned to producers is substantial , sufficient indeed to have led to a major expansion of the industry in recent years , with visibly greater prosperity in sericultureal areas . |
| 21 | The model for this part of Marx 's theory therefore seems to be a system in which an imbalance between two parts may lead to compensatory adjust-ments at other levels or may lead to a major reorganisation of the whole . |
| 22 | The ill-fated advertisements were to form a preliminary campaign , costing £100,000 , as a prelude to a major campaign in the coming financial year . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the very economic success of Western European countries and Japan amounted to a major shift in the international balance of economic power in which the position of the USA was transformed from one of hegemony into one of primus inter pares . |
| 24 | In 1914 he was still only fifty-five and could look forward to a major job in the next Unionist government . |
| 25 | A SWWA document obtained by the Guardian stated that , ‘ If public reaction escalates to a major extent over the weekend the Department of the Environment should be informed . ’ |
| 26 | The evidence that has emerged since then , however , points to a major discrepancy between the Government 's promises of action and the allocation of resources to implement them ( Robson , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | The system will be used in an internal pilot project in Informix 's US and UK offices and should lead to a major deal across the US if all goes well . |
| 28 | The present impregnable appearance of the castle is due to a major restoration in the early years of this century , but there have been fortified buildings on this site since the days of the Viking invaders . |
| 29 | Each picks out a different type of factor and claims that it is the key to a causal understanding of the Industrial Revolution ; and in doing so , each relies on an undefended account of the assumptions that need to be embodied in satisfactory explanations . |
| 30 | The finding that even severe depression does not lead to a lowering of blood pressure suggests that the mild depression and decreased wellbeing associated with low blood pressure in the studies referred to above is not due to a causal effect of the former on the latter , which strengthens the case for the existence of a hypotensive syndrome . |