Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity . |
| 2 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
| 3 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 4 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 5 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 6 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 7 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 8 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’ |
| 9 | A person who erects or installs such plant must ensure that the installation is not unsafe or a risk to health . |
| 10 | Other successful events included a visit to AEA TECHNOLOGY at Risley on 10 April 1991 and a visit to MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT on 6 September . |
| 11 | A study of simple programmes that encourage oscillation between growth and decline can be both instructive and a spur to the imagination . |
| 12 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 13 | He was appalled that I wanted to study English and history , both of which he thought not only pointless but a danger to my identity . |
| 14 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 15 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 16 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 17 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 18 | A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides . |
| 19 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 20 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 21 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |
| 22 | It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ . |
| 23 | The area around the mill pond has also been landscaped , the whole site now looking magnificent and a credit to its new owners . |
| 24 | The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young , comely and a temptation to coachmen . |
| 25 | One implication of these results is that soil erosion caused by the Spanish introduction of plough agriculture was apparently no more severe than that associated with traditional agricultural methods ; it is therefore questionable whether a return to traditional methods would have significant environmental benefits . |
| 26 | The liquid picture is pierced by petrified trees and paddling between the towering , upturned roots and the column-like trunks is as haunting as a visit to a sunken city . |
| 27 | And on a cold , blustery night in Dublin his brand of delta blues with enough wah-wah to set the pulse a quiver , was as welcome as a soupkitchen to the indigent . |
| 28 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , it is uncertain whether he was writing during Emma 's marriage to Cnut or that to Æthelred , but these tales hint that one or both suggested to Richard II that a claim to England was worth recording , and that he wanted to keep his options open . |
| 30 | He was confident that a letter to the government in Peking would secure us a gift from the People 's Republic of a brace of breeding yaks . |