Example sentences of "[noun] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papyrus enabled the ancients to spread their religion to a wider audience . |
| 2 | Edward Hudson of Country Life enlisted her services in making that periodical the exponent of culture and the arts to a wide public . |
| 3 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 4 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 5 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 6 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 7 | The development of Mosley 's economic ideas in the 1920s showed a gradual transition from a socialist to a nationalist Perspective . |
| 8 | Perhaps there is a hidden agenda here — a desire for mainstream success in America , a need to introduce old songs to a new audience , a bid for Radio 2 playlisting — but I doubt it . |
| 9 | SARAH MADDOCK turned in a five star show to help the Liverpool and District Association to a comfortable win in the north west inter-association age group competition at Everton Park . |
| 10 | And the mining communities , for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army , are disappearing . |
| 11 | THE University of Stirling has appointed Dr Brian Murdoch to a personal chair in German . |
| 12 | ‘ It certainly is , ’ Lindsey smiled , forbearing to mention that , as guests filed into the reception lounge to be formally greeted by the captain and his deputy , each couple would have handed their formal invitation card to a senior officer and had their names discreetly murmured into the captain 's ear as the introductions were made . |
| 13 | But almost immediately the conmen took her cash card to a hole-in-the-wall machine and withdrew the money from her account . |
| 14 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 15 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 16 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 17 | The latter is frontman for ‘ The Pogues ’ , a New York outfit who play mostly Pogues ' covers to a packed house every Sunday at Paddy Reilly 's . |
| 18 | At first , though , you may well have to encourage your dog to alter its posture from a sitting to a lying position . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her disappearance resulted in a boost to a flagging career , offers to pose for girlie magazines and a £2,300 fine for wasting police time . |
| 21 | ‘ Through the forced upgrading of their stadia the clubs got the chance to change their market , from a mixed business economy working and middle class fans to a single economy attracting the the middle classes , ’ says Alex Fynn , an adviser to the Football Association and head of sports marketing at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 22 | When the firm became Bell Lawrie in 1986 he became managing director and the firm changed simultaneously from being a partnership to a limited company . |
| 23 | The effect of this so-called organic basis to corporate structure at law may create problems in the event of a transition from a surveying partnership to a limited liability company . |
| 24 | Since the partners are , in law , agents for the partnership , they may therefore by their actions bind the partnership to a particular course of conduct . |
| 25 | Of the other two big continental powers , Germany is busy absorbing the former East German army and cutting the new all-German force to a promised limit of 370,000 men , as agreed to in the European conventional arms-control treaty in Paris last November . |
| 26 | The application of a force to a simple liquid of low molar mass is relieved by the flow of molecules past one another into new positions in the system . |
| 27 | But it does provoke rebellious , aggressive behaviour in a minority of children , particularly if they have to be taken by force to a quiet room , or the door has to be held to keep them there . |
| 28 | Muhammad Ali attributed some of his victories in the boxing ring to a prior course of treatment with B15 . |
| 29 | Mercedes explains that the biggest problem in developing the five-speed unit is the necessity to reduce mechanical and hydraulic losses to a lower level than had been achieved previously . |
| 30 | The near-disaster had galvanized the general consciousness to a higher adrenaline level , probably because Xanthe had not , in fact , been carried off like Angelica . |