Example sentences of "[adj] to [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floating action has as much to with the stiffness of the tail as the flexibility of the tip . |
| 2 | Well I mean I a asked Christine yesterday and she was saying that because this is n't a project any more it 's actually supposed to in the end of week three . |
| 3 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 4 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 5 | But it was , it was cheaper to by the artex like that cos it 's only three pound a bag look , three fifty a bag for a bag of it . |
| 6 | ‘ And I imagine you always have been able to from the dawn of time . ’ |
| 7 | I wondered who the ladies were directly responsible to in the Organisation . |
| 8 | For me it has become almost comically prolonged , because it seems to have very little to with the colour of my hair . |
| 9 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 10 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 11 | It 'll be twenty to by the time I get round there . . |
| 12 | Erm , I get everything , I 'm allergic to at the moment . |
| 13 | These are the ‘ bankers ’ deposits ' referred to in the balance sheet in Table 3.2 . |
| 14 | After the film some of the elders talk to the group about the effect the films have on them , of seeing people they still feel spiritually close to on the screen , of the inheritance they have received , and the traditions they want to pass on . |
| 15 | After the rubbery plateau the modulus again decreases from 10 5 .4 to in the section D to E. The effect of applied stress to a polymer in states ( iii ) and ( iv ) is shown in figure 12.1(c) where there is instantaneous elastic response followed by a region of flow . |
| 16 | What she is entitled to under the law . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 18 | The taxing master disallowed a number of items on the ground that they were ‘ not mortgagee 's costs , that is , such costs as mortgagees are entitled to against the property in mortgage . ’ |
| 19 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 20 | In spite of my enthusiasm and my growing sense of self-importance , one con keeps cropping up and is finally given life by a fellow banker from Chase Manhattan , whom I sit next to on the flight into Kuala Lumpur . |
| 21 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 22 | When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do . |
| 23 | She was a bit troublesome to me to begin with but I soon cottoned on to the fact that it was n't her but the girl she was sitting next to within the class . |