Example sentences of "[vb -s] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was necessary in case there were different adherent bacteria on the mucosal surface in disease and controls , and for these experiments faecal fluid was aspirated at colonoscopy and added in 100 µl aliquots to a specimen in the culture system . |
| 2 | In London , where orders for transfer are made by district judges of the Principal Registry , appeal lies to a judge of the Family Division . |
| 3 | An appeal from a decision of a district judge in the county lies to a judge in the same court . |
| 4 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 5 | whether it 's nineteen ninety , ninety five which is relatively small , it widens to a potential sixteen point five million , fourteen point five million minimum , in ninety five , ninety six and to twenty seven point two million in ninety six , ninety seven . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | Thins to a dew and steams off — |
| 8 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 9 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 10 | Originally published by Poetry Wales in 1982 , this updated edition of critical writings on R S Thomas not only explores the evolving approaches Thomas has to a variety of , by now , well- established themes , but also contains an extended bibliography of source material , invaluable to any student or reader of Thomas 's work . |
| 11 | This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop , the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale . |
| 12 | Listen , Rober' , if there is anything we can do — I think we are now the nearest thing your friend Nader has to a family here in Paris . ’ |
| 13 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 14 | Its massive cyclopean ring of masonry still stands to a height of 3 metres . |
| 15 | The guitars stagger all over the place , the singer hacks his throat raw and the song stutters to a halt in a welter of feedback . |
| 16 | Singer SHEENA EASTON , 33 , who thanks to a series of shrewd property deals in California is 36th richest with £39.4 million . |
| 17 | For example Shaw ( 1980 ) reports that the minimum efficient scale of an ammonium nitrate plant is about 300,000–450,000 tonnes per annum , which approximates to a quarter of total UK consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers . |
| 18 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 19 | A bilateral treaty ( or one with a limited number of parties ) creating mutual rights and duties in personam most approximates to a contract ; it is here that the identity of treaty partners is most significant . |
| 20 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 21 | He then drives home and writes to a climbing magazine detailing his new routes . |
| 22 | They are strengthened by the return of Matt Kerr and Phil Houlton and will hope to carry on the momentum of one of their best starts to a season for years . |
| 23 | A belligerent bat and adhesive catcher , Taylor certainly enjoyed one of the more auspicious starts to a county career , taking a century off the Sri Lankans on debut in 1979 then claiming four Gold Awards in his first five Benson & Hedges Cup ties . |
| 24 | PROPERTY LOOKS TO A REVIVAL |
| 25 | The democrat looks to a parliament to ensure that the executive is kept under scrutiny and prevented from abusing its powers . |
| 26 | As the coats separate to take a flight of stairs each , there 's a screech of tyres round the corner and a big old-style Granada lurches to a halt behind them . |
| 27 | Assuming that the measuring device itself is reliable , if a single measurement corresponds to a variation in the measurement of the reference card then this fact is flagged on the output . |
| 28 | Locus M corresponds to a circuit that exhibits real positive feedback at a frequency represented by the point Q but , as the length of OQ is less than unity , oscillation can not occur . |
| 29 | This change shows up directly in the uneven spacing of Figure 2 , and corresponds to a change in shape of the nucleus from a sphere to a prolate spheroid , or ‘ rugby ball ’ shape . |
| 30 | If the step corresponds to a change of excitation from phase A to phase 0 for example , the half-step with both phases A and B excited is first taken . |