Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This done , I set each processor to a different effect and balanced the quantity of each effect coming into the Quad-FX with the four trim pots . |
| 2 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |
| 3 | It is not much directly concerned with land improvements although as part of a complex system of supports , staff of the Volcans d'Auvergne Regional Park understood that support payments ( of 1,000FF/year for each cow to an unknown maximum ) were made to farmers in the Massif Central through FIDAR and SOMIVAL ( a regional development company ) . |
| 4 | Good did not overcome evil simply because we knew more — technological progress merely raised that struggle to a higher and potentially more devastating level . |
| 5 | You know what is best for your department or your industry — every time you hand that responsibility to a consultant , you destroy your own credibility . |
| 6 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 7 | That route to a B A in hospitality and match mana management would have again ended with her graduation in the Summer of nineteen ninety two . |
| 8 | Where the market is allocated on the basis of tenders , more intricate measures may be needed to ensure that the contracts are shared out , including perhaps ‘ allocation ’ of each contract to a particular firm and agreement on how the other firms will rig their bids to ensure that they are not awarded the contract ‘ by mistake ’ . |
| 9 | Divide the pastry into four and roll out each piece to a 20cm/8in round . |
| 10 | Give that club to a lady and she could no more control it than the power man could use her club effectively . |
| 11 | Once saddled with a seemingly insurmountable debt of $4 billion in 1989 , Unisys has now reduced that figure to a manageable $1.6 billion , and recently announced its fifth consecutive profitable quarter . |
| 12 | Nepalese authorities hope to quadruple that figure to a million within the next decade . |
| 13 | As Her Majesty 's Government have based their aid to Kenya on progress being made on the political front , presumably there is now scope for increasing that aid to a country which is an island of stability in a troubled area . |
| 14 | There seems little alternative to a change in the economy 's structure towards a new range of products . |
| 15 | The most significant single development at the summit was the signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which committed each side to a reduction of 30 per cent in its stock of weapons . |
| 16 | Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson 's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland . |
| 17 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 18 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 19 | I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday . |
| 20 | The war brought this link to an end . |
| 21 | He had an express power to delegate this function to a committee which , in turn , attempted to further sub-delegate its functions to an executive officer who issued a directive to a farmer that only sugar should be grown in a particular field . |
| 22 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 23 | Secondly , if direct physical interference is a necessary element in the breach of covenant that element can be found in this case to a substantial extent … |
| 24 | It is also likely that because of past changes a growing number of women will retire with some entitlement to a state pension . |
| 25 | Another defence to an action for defamation is that of fair comment . |
| 26 | Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work . |
| 27 | If so , there must be a second output route from this level to a system that converts letter information to pronunciation without going via the word level . |
| 28 | Here , evidently , one party has been ordered to perform , and is appealing against this award to an unsympathetic emperor . |
| 29 | While the first and last pitches are pleasant , it is the steep , sustained middle section that elevates this route to a climb of memorable quality . |
| 30 | Since erm sexually reproducing organisms are and I 've tried to keep technical jargon in this course to a minimum , but one term we 'll have to learn is diploid , you ca n't do without it . |