Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj -er] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Evans , the controversial black Olympic sprinter , contributed a further element to Kane 's model when he added : ‘ Then , on the plantations , a strong Blackman was mated with a strong Blackwoman . |
| 2 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 3 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 4 | The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting . |
| 5 | The plastic pipes , strengthened on the outside by thin bands of steel , provide a cheaper alternative to concrete pipes used as flood drains , sewers and irrigation canals . |
| 6 | Analysis of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genesmay provide a better guide to tumour behaviour than conventional techniques . |
| 7 | Where they have been most developed , they act to divorce the firm from the factor costs of a national location , and thus provide a further challenge to older notions of comparative advantage determining the outcomes for countries . |
| 8 | This emphasises a further point to which domestic competition authorities need to apply their minds . |
| 9 | After the formal announcement by Australian Mutual Provident yesterday of its bid Pearl 's share price rose a further 87p to 639p . |
| 10 | In our relations with the Irish Government and the Garda , we are determined to secure a further contribution to the ending of terrorism in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing . |
| 12 | The agreement reached between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT members — and between SCOTVEC and BTEC — has added a further dimension to the flexibility and widened opportunities for candidates which are the hallmark of our new advanced courses . |
| 13 | I would have added a further recommendation to the Clapham conclusions : that British Rail should forthwith desist from any further advertising expenditure and re-route the money to the improvement of safety and engineering standards . |
| 14 | It would , to say the least , have added a further complication to the problems of 1940 . |
| 15 | By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties . |
| 16 | I meant , with a small c , in that some economists attach a higher figure to the cost of implementing those pledges . |
| 17 | I believe stores must invest more in training to provide a better service to customers . |
| 18 | I would argue at least that concentrating a group of students on one course should enable our scholarships staff both to tailor a more relevant course and to provide a better service to students . |
| 19 | As he will know , our reforms for further education as a whole are designed to provide enhanced opportunities for both young people and adults and to provide a further stimulus to increased participation . |
| 20 | Yes and Forest have got to find a better route to goal than that and we 'll find out whether they can in a few moments . |
| 21 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 22 | This autobiographical slant not only adds a further dimension to an understanding of the novel as a " balance sheet " . |
| 23 | The combination of syntactic ambiguity problem of the ANLT system with the word ambiguity from the recognition system adds a further dimension to the difficulty of performing the parsing task . |
| 24 | The fact that the police are positioned as at once the backbone of the State and a pariah within civil society in a way that is similar , though not identical , to that of the working class adds a further twist to the tale . |
| 25 | This adds a further regulator to receptor-matrix interaction and implies that specific receptor expression may be influenced by nuclear events or in response to a change in matrix . |
| 26 | What 's more , a damp wall has a lower resistance to the passage of heat than a dry one , so it becomes colder and simply encourages more condensation . |
| 27 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 28 | Once a system of law accepts possession as a sufficient foundation for a claim for recovery of personal property it is faced with the question of how far the defendant should be allowed to raise the issue that a third party has a better right to the property than the plaintiff — the jus tertii . |
| 29 | It does not matter that the owner has a better right to possession than either of the thieves . |
| 30 | Another German biologist , Wilhelm Roux , has a better claim to being the father of our subject . |