Example sentences of "[adj] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reduced this to a quarter and set the glass down on the wooden table with a clatter . |
| 2 | expand this to a neighbourhood and it is easy to see that collection and transportation costs would turn this into an uneconomical exercise . |
| 3 | Motivation is often increased if it is made clear to a group that they are covering a topic on behalf of the whole class and that their results will be shared by the rest of the class . |
| 4 | Most human discourses behave as if language were transparent to a meaning or a reality beyond it , but , if we carry the lessons of Saussure right through to their logical conclusion , we see that this can not be so . |
| 5 | The team on site must be self-sufficient to a degree that depends on the location . |
| 6 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 7 | Your tutor may be generous to a fault but can not reward irrelevance or peripheral knowledge display . |
| 8 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 9 | Not being averse to a challenge and imbued with extra fervour from the conference , the women , all dykes , ordered fifteen hot whiskies . |
| 10 | The elvish song is only analogous to a hymn as Gandalf is analogous to an angel ; Elbereth too is unlike ( say ) the Holy Ghost in remaining visible , to elves , and rememberable as a being by those elves like Galadriel who have been across the Sea and met her . |
| 11 | A well broken , loose and particulate soil will have characteristics different to a uniform and unbroken film of the same type . |
| 12 | If a game or other program runs too fast using a utility such AT-SLOW will reduce the performance of your computer to a level similar to a XT or 80286 machine . |
| 13 | Both the counterfoil and the voting slip have identical numbers printed on them similar to a cloakroom or raffle tickets . |
| 14 | A report is similar to an essay but often contains an account of a discussion , the summary findings of a piece of research or of the literature on a given theme . |
| 15 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 16 | He intended leaving the bowl in as many places easily accessible to a psychopath as possible . |
| 17 | The latter was accessible to an observer but the nature of the former could only be inferred . |
| 18 | Mr Ashdown said he could be blamed for forcing a second election , but he was seeking PR because it was central to a coalition that would ensure a stable government . |
| 19 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 20 | The French art world is already handicapped by the droit de suite of 3% which also exists in seven other European countries but not in Britain , payable to an artist and his relatives for up to fifty years after his death . |
| 21 | Similarly , areas within a seceding union republic which were populated predominantly by an ethnic group forming a minority in the republic , but which did not enjoy regional autonomy , might be allowed , subject to a referendum and negotiation , to remain within the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | It made the marketing of Palestinian goods inside Israel subject to a licence that in practice was only given for produce , like olives , which was not produced by Jews in commercial quantities . |
| 23 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 24 | This is subject to a requirement that the current owner in possession originally purchased the work : |
| 25 | In California , abolition is subject to a requirement that the offence be reported within 90 days . |
| 26 | These rodents have the double misfortune of being regarded as edible — both the Hopi and Navajo Indians have recipes for baked prairie dog — and as agricultural pest , subject to a hunting and poisoning programme for at least the past 150 years . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) A sale by auction may be notified to be subject to a reserve or upset price , and a right to bid may also be reserved expressly by or on behalf of the seller . |
| 28 | The mortgagor demises the land to the mortgagee for a term of years absolute , subject to a proviso that the term shall cease when the mortgagor repays the loan . |
| 29 | The agreement provided for the determination of the agreement by three months ' written notice given by either party to the other subject to a proviso that the landlords should not exercise that right unless they required the premises for their undertaking . |
| 30 | Sudanese Communist Party secretary-general Mohammed Ibrahim Nugud also benefited from the amnesty , as did all political detainees and exiled politicians — subject to a proviso that those accused of corruption should be tried by the courts . |