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 | Good did not overcome evil simply because we knew more — technological progress merely raised that struggle to a higher and potentially more devastating level . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Divide the pastry into four and roll out each piece to a 20cm/8in round . |
| 8 | Give that club to a lady and she could no more control it than the power man could use her club effectively . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nepalese authorities hope to quadruple that figure to a million within the next decade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There seems little alternative to a change in the economy 's structure towards a new range of products . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson 's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland . |
| 15 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | It is also likely that because of past changes a growing number of women will retire with some entitlement to a state pension . |
| 22 | Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Another route to a part-time job might be by looking at the cards in newsagents ' windows , or asking as your local Job Centre or office of Professional and Executive Recruitment , addresses of which will be in your local Yellow Pages . |
| 27 | I have drawn this chart to a larger scale because it provides an excellent check of the limiting magnitude of binoculars . |
| 28 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 29 | In the acquisition phase , subjects learned to say a particular noun ( R ) to shape A. The test showed that training in the acquired equivalence ( AE ) condition was more likely to produce generalization of this response to a B stimulus than was acquired distinctiveness ( AD ) training . |
| 30 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |