Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She adds : ‘ That encourages a woman to be hopeful things will improve but , unfortunately , there is no way of knowing how he will react to anything . ’ |
| 2 | Underneath the veneer of participatory management , it is business as usual — and business as usual represents a threat to America 's long-term capacity to compete . |
| 3 | That looks a Stranger to the Beams of Day ; |
| 4 | When potential problems , such as lack of appropriate living options , inadequate pensions and enforced dependency on ageing carers , are added to this objective reality , it is not difficult to see why many older disabled people feel that ageing represents a threat to their independence . |
| 5 | First , section 30 constitutes an exception to the general rule in section 11(4) that the buyer can not accept part and reject part of the goods ( see paragraph 13–03 ) . |
| 6 | This constitutes a penalty to the deserting management by depriving them of any uplift in the market value , and gives comfort to the investors about the level of commitment of the managers . |
| 7 | This involves a visit to one of three major aero clubs . |
| 8 | The surface may be bowed into a curve by tensioning the two cross-spars and , while this contributes a lot to stability , the Rokkaku is still a single line fighting kite . |
| 9 | If sterling were at higher interest rates than the US$ , then clearly this represents a cost to the bank in that it has foregone a return in sterling better than that available in US$ , so that exchange risk can be hedged in the way described . |
| 10 | Ocean-mining companies would be premature in thinking that this offers a solution to their problems . |
| 11 | This causes an hazard to the pedestrians . |
| 12 | This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern . |
| 13 | For any high flyers considering keeping well above this area , a quick reference to EUR 2 shows an air to air refuelling area of 2600 square miles starting abeam Bristol and Bournemouth and ending just before Land 's End , restricting the air from FL 80 to 180 . |
| 14 | There are five membership categories , the cheapest being a ‘ follower ’ at £10 per year and this includes a subscription to ‘ Lifewatch ’ magazine , an entrance ticket to London Zoo , additional money-off entrance vouchers , a car sticker and a lapel badge . |
| 15 | This requires a tick to be placed in the box labelled Restore to Table |
| 16 | This requires a tick to be placed in the box labelled Bring to Working-Set . |
| 17 | This requires a viewer to ‘ unpack ’ the image and reconstitute the real-life situation out of which it has been found . |
| 18 | Normally this requires a visit to the File Manager . |
| 19 | This creates an exception to both : ( 1 ) the general practice that experts ' decisions are final : see 8.8 ; and ( 2 ) the less well-established principle that certifiers owe no duty of care to contractors : see 7.4.2. introduced a further tier of dispute resolution by interposing optional alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ) between the decision of the engineer and arbitration . |
| 20 | These are marked by three of the dancers whilst another performs a solo to a short phrase . |
| 21 | Yet the two are connected , for if law 's authority is held to depend on its reputation and predictability then this presents a challenge to what Simpson calls the ‘ school-rules concept ’ of law . |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't need to tell you , ’ he continued , ‘ that this means a lot to Woodline . |
| 23 | Suddenly this means a lot to them . |
| 24 | This gives a clue to the location of Swinsto Hole , five minutes north-west and to Simpson 's Pot , over the wall in the next allotment east : their entrances are small and , masked by long grass , need a search but both admit to major cave systems . |
| 25 | This gives a clue to a major problem : the way services are described . |
| 26 | This gives a route to acetic acid , selling for about £310 a tonne , that is more economic than the one from say , ethanol , at around £470 a tonne . |
| 27 | It is surprising to hear that Mill does n't hold this view that he thinks that erm the moral health of the citizens is of concern to the government and it actually gives , although he does n't seem to recognize this , this gives a hostage to fortune to his conservative critics because of course they can say , did say that liberalism was very damaging of er morality of the public and so we need a far more restrictive type of regime than Mill allows us . |
| 28 | This gives a guide to the general changes in the candidate which are to be brought about . |
| 29 | If the original rad is still fitted this gives an indication to the age of the vehicle . |
| 30 | If the former can not be allowed to happen because this spells an end to society , then external coercion must come to replace internal restraint ; and drives which can not be inhibited and redirected by the ego and superego must instead be mastered by agencies of social control . |