Example sentences of "[noun prp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE University of Stirling has appointed Dr Brian Murdoch to a personal chair in German . |
| 2 | This view of people , and the shifting , changing , fluid evanescent reality which is a human being , this sense leads Proust to a particular theory which affects the way in which many of his characters behave towards one another . |
| 3 | I was first introduced to Medau in 1947 when I was sent by Dr. Anni Noll to a post natal class which was held in Days Lane School , Sidcup . |
| 4 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 5 | Pakistan , Iran , India and the Gulf states having mostly refused military bases to the superpowers could in his view credibly affirm their opposition to the permanent presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan and endorse the objective of returning Afghanistan to a non-aligned status . |
| 6 | Strett 's conversion took Orrell to a 9–0 lead by half-time and the title was beckoning . |
| 7 | On the morning of Good Friday in 1932 , the GWR ran a ‘ Hikers ’ Mystery Express ' from Paddington to an unpublished destination and back . |
| 8 | I was not quite sure I heard the question right — how did I feel like taking Jane Asher to a Marine Nature Reserve for a day ? |
| 9 | Barri Williams 's unbeaten 26 steered Tregaron to a six-wicket win over Aberaeron 2nds ( 64 all out ) , Will Davies and Arwyn Morgan both taking three wickets . |
| 10 | The trial of the wife of the ANC deputy president which had begun on Feb. 4 before the Rand Supreme Court [ see p. 37992 ] reached its climax on May 14 when Mr Justice Stegmann sentenced Winnie Mandela to a six-year prison term . |
| 11 | John and Ann ( although Ann to a lesser extent ) were close contenders as they actively tried to get a tan . |
| 12 | Gilbert Edelson , chief counsel for the Art Dealers Association of America , compared the effect of a droit de suite in the United States to a proposed increased gasoline tax designed to conserve fuel by reducing consumption . |
| 13 | The compound was discovered when Jacqueline Doyle and Eugene Nixon of the Department of the Marine Fisheries Research Centre , Dublin , alerted Wright to an anomalous result found during routine monitoring of mussels from Bantry Bay , Ireland . |
| 14 | So for the risk-averse , the relevant ages are lower , while the optimistic may stay out of SERPS to a higher age . |
| 15 | To emphasise his authority the unforgiving Rangers boss exposed Roberts to a humiliating period as a reserve team substitute . |
| 16 | The convoy originally had planned to split and take some of the aid to Gorazde , another government enclave , but after being blocked by a crater in a mined road to Gorazde , all trucks headed down the twisting , snow-covered route that UN officials feared was also mined and finally arrived in Zepa to a tumultuous welcome . |
| 17 | Its tally of 184,445 was its highest ever and it is likely that the personal vote for John Hume , its leader , in Foyle , and the conversion of Eddie McGrady 's marginal in South Down to a 600-plus majority , will have been boosted by some Protestant crossover . |
| 18 | Elizabeth Reegan to a certain extent was not my mother but myself . |
| 19 | Close by , in peaceful PAPPLEWICK village , Robin Hood halted the marriage of one Ellen to an ageing knight so that she could instead marry the lovelorn Alan-a-Dale . |
| 20 | Any material moving southwards along the east coast is stopped by the eastward projection of the Norfolk coast , which has been likened by Steers to a great groyne . |
| 21 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 22 | Mention the initials CNAA to a committed and teaching technologist and the result is instant . |
| 23 | THE PLOT Roland Michell , a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant in the London Library , discovers two drafts of a letter written by the fictional mid-Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash to a fictional fellow poet , Christabel La Motte . |
| 24 | GRAHAM Taylor will not be offered a new contract by the FA — unless he leads England to a successful World Cup . |
| 25 | Even Claire will go to England to a decent finishing school , and she 's a girl . |
| 26 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 27 | After the Glorious Revolution William was able to commit England to a continental alliance designed to contain the expansionism of Louis XIV 's France , and to preserve the balance of power in Europe between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs . |
| 28 | As a pastor , he had no desire to reduce England to a spiritual wilderness . |
| 29 | This authority would not make changes to the software , but would be responsible for pursuing the SPR to a satisfactory conclusion . |
| 30 | SKIPPER Hugh Morris led Glamorgan to a crushing 10 wicket victory over Surrey at The Oval . |