Example sentences of "[verb] to [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the definition of neutrality adopted above is not committed to such a view , which is rooted in the confused notion that to act neutrally is to act fairly . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that the courts are rhetorically committed to such a role . |
| 3 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 4 | Examined in detail ( Fig. 5.7 ) this simple model repeats the problems of fitting the city wards identified by both the Shotgun and the Focused models , but adds to this a tendency towards relative over-prediction in the rural wards to the north and east of the area . |
| 5 | Quigley ( 1979 ) adds to this a tendency to interpret noun phrases as connecting to the nearest verb phrase , producing misinterpretation and limiting the range of written sentences . |
| 6 | Recollecting his churlish behaviour , Isabel wondered how she could be attracted to such a man even for a moment . |
| 7 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 8 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 9 | All that has to be added to such a system is the expert knowledge , usually in the form of rules . |
| 10 | The Japanese invaders added to this a ban on the practice of all martial arts , in an attempt to suppress the Korean nationalist spirit . |
| 11 | No German records relating to such a formation have so far been found , but it is possible that they were aircraft of III/ZG 26 . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 13 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 14 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 15 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 16 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 17 | She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach . |
| 18 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 19 | It came as a shock to Stella , learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith . |
| 20 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 21 | That an event is characterized in terms of the interdependent existence of subject and content does not entail that it is not physical according to such a conception of the physical . |
| 22 | Speaking at an analysts ' breakfast in Chicago last week where Comdex Spring took place , Pieper alluded to such a breakthrough as ‘ removing the firewalls ’ between the various microprocessors . |
| 23 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 24 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 25 | In 1832 a young Englishman , Charles Darwin , twenty-four years old and naturalist on HMS Beagle , a brig sent by the Admiralty in London on a surveying voyage round the world , came to such a forest outside Rio de Janeiro . |
| 26 | This was , in all probability , the first scandal to be shaped to such a degree by references learned from the screen . |
| 27 | Any duty owed to such a person would therefore have to be at common law . |
| 28 | Korda 's shirty reply suggested he was n't willing to listen to such a criticism from an expensive star . |
| 29 | I would have offered to pay his bills , but he was too proud to listen to such a suggestion . |
| 30 | The European dimension has grown to such a level that a dedicated European unit is being established . |