Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 2 | * whether the decision involves a modification to previous purchasing patterns , for instance when the usual product purchased has been re.formulated , an apparently attractive new brand introduced , or the purchaser 's usage context for the product has changed . |
| 3 | When the retailer receives an answer to his enquiry , giving the information he requested , he may decide to write to the manufacturer again , asking for a quotation for a large quantity of the product . |
| 4 | The male has a gold to orange main body colour enhanced by red markings . |
| 5 | If the certificate contains a statement to the effect that the company is a public company it is conclusive evidence of this fact . |
| 6 | It 's all well concealed and unless the auditor has an obligation to actually hunt this down , the kind of white hunter er er of the British economy er then er it wo n't be detected and the passive approach to audit such as the er audit practices board is recommending is simply a recipe for further disasters er and further audit failures . |
| 7 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 8 | Spreading : The name given to the effect whereby an increase in exposure causes a subject to be seen as larger . |
| 9 | The board has a commitment to Banbridge hospital and to continuing health care and social services in its area . |
| 10 | Julie Moline offers a guide to its endless attractions |
| 11 | Second , Compact offers an incentive to improved performance within areas which schools are already tackling . |
| 12 | ‘ The [ Son-of-Sam ] statute represents a response to the outrage expressed by the public at an offender 's ability to profit from his wrong ; but what publisher could contract with an offender if he were not certain that the public 's response to the offender 's story would generate enough profit to make his efforts worthwhile ? ’ |
| 13 | At one point a gangster tortures a copy to the bouncy accompaniment of the old Stealer 's Wheel song ‘ Stuck In The Middle With You ’ . |
| 14 | But sometimes , the trash drops a hint to a waiter . |
| 15 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 16 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 17 | Though the successive events of the journey are exciting in themselves , dramatic irony adds an edge to them , becoming more telling as the Rat begins to guess the truth . |
| 18 | More often than not , the parasite develops a resistance to drugs and suitable alternatives are not easy to find . |
| 19 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 20 | This chapter contains an introduction to methods of digital image processing applied to Landsat image data . |
| 21 | Each professor has a right to money and manpower resources depending only on his level of seniority and not on his track record in research . |
| 22 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 23 | The law does provide a battery of preventative powers available to the police and others , after all , every member of the public , every citizen has a duty to erm prevent a breach of the peace occurring in his presence . |
| 24 | Thus detection of a semantic anomaly forces a check to be made on the identification of a word , and this checking increases lexical decision time . |
| 25 | The drawing shows a modification to the socket . |
| 26 | This chapter includes an introduction to the process of basic toilet training a young child and then examines the problems in continence that young children show . |
| 27 | This term emphasizes an approach to RE which concentrates on what is essential from several points of view , with regard to breadth , depth , relevance and time . |
| 28 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 29 | Baloo the bear takes a shine to his mancub friend Mowgli in The Jungle Book . |
| 30 | If new research demonstrates a hitherto unknown link between needs and an available indicator , equity demands a change to the system , but this serves to undermine stability to an extent . |