Example sentences of "[adj] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way in which ritual develops — or rather is developed — and the characteristics which it assumes , reflect the ordering and preoccupations peculiar to a society . |
| 2 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 3 | Therefore , if we are to exalt the work of Georgia O'Keeffe , let us not exalt it because it seems to be a rare psychic perception of the world peculiar to a woman , but because it is good painting . ’ |
| 4 | William Coningham , Liberal MP for Brighton , declared that Gothic was a barbarous style , ‘ peculiar to a sect of which the hon. |
| 5 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 6 | At the same time he was prone to a feeling of guilt that his art was not what it ought to be . |
| 7 | This ‘ centralization and internationalization of capital ’ knew no political boundaries , and the UK in particular was prone to a loss of investment overseas and increased imports ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | Woodforde is certainly prone to a touch of hyperbole in such matters , but weather which . |
| 9 | On strings , and indeed on any orchestral combination , they would sound dull and muddy to a degree . |
| 10 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 11 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 12 | He found no difficulty in signing the engagement drawn up by Parliament which bound him to be faithful to a commonwealth without king and House of Lords . |
| 13 | Louis described James as ‘ the best fellow in the world ’ and was distinctly smitten by his wife , Mary of Modena , though the French were puzzled that , as a beautiful woman of 30 , she should be faithful to a husband 26 years her senior . |
| 14 | In 1879 ‘ Land and Liberty ’ split into two parties , the ‘ Black Repartition ’ , which remained faithful to a programme of propaganda , and the ‘ People 's Will ’ , which concentrated its efforts on ‘ disorganization ’ . |
| 15 | The patch is sticky-taped onto the kite blank , over the cutout , then the spine is prepared to a length equal to the corner-to-corner distance of the square . |
| 16 | I commented as far as I am prepared to a moment ago . |
| 17 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 18 | Motivation is often increased if it is made clear to a group that they are covering a topic on behalf of the whole class and that their results will be shared by the rest of the class . |
| 19 | Most human discourses behave as if language were transparent to a meaning or a reality beyond it , but , if we carry the lessons of Saussure right through to their logical conclusion , we see that this can not be so . |
| 20 | The team on site must be self-sufficient to a degree that depends on the location . |
| 21 | If you 're after shareware and do n't want to pay a library for a disk full , the only other way is to either copy the programs from a friend or get on-line to a Bulletin Board System and download the programs from there via a modem . |
| 22 | While the monitoring function is clearly an interesting and important aspect of language learning and language use , one feels it deserves to be represented as a complex and subtle activity , responsive to a variety of social and psychological pressures . |
| 23 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 24 | Generous to a fault , and if he was n't always strictly above-board-well , a man had to live . |
| 25 | And generous to a fault . |
| 26 | And generous to a fault . |
| 27 | At times you appear to be over-optimistic , unrealistic and inclined to put the cart before the horse , but you are also kind , caring and generous to a fault . |
| 28 | Your tutor may be generous to a fault but can not reward irrelevance or peripheral knowledge display . |
| 29 | Generous to a fault , he had booked the ballroom suite at the best hotel in Lexington and a popular jazz band to entertain the several hundred guests whom Cora-Beth had invited for Harry 's party . |
| 30 | — You 're generous to a fault . |