Example sentences of "[prep] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning said : In my opinion any behaviour , by words or conduct , is sufficient to be a misrepresentation if it is such as to mislead the other party about the existence or extent of the exemption . |
| 2 | Links between subjects may be sought for to enable a thematic approach or topic work to continue . |
| 3 | Ehret 's enthusiasm over rare blooms was such as to prompt a daily walk from Chelsea to Parsons Green to watch the progress of Magnolia grandiflora in Sir Charles Wager 's garden . |
| 4 | If used as total flooding agents , however , they can be extremely effective , but the toxicity of bulk carbon dioxide , and to a lesser extent , the halons , is such as to demand a gas-tight enclosure for the storage , if danger to adjacent life is to be avoided . |
| 5 | The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case , |
| 6 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 7 | Section 32 enables the Inland Revenue to adjust the value at which Target 's shares are disposed of to counteract the depressant effect of this sort of arrangement , while s176 ensures that a hive-up can not be used to realise an artificial loss on the disposal of Target 's shares ( eg , when it is liquidated ) . |
| 8 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 9 | The only role of the Labour party is to stir up any bad news that it can get hold of to give a bad image of Wales . |
| 10 | Head the left-hand column ‘ reasons for ’ and write down all the reasons you can think of to follow a particular choice . |
| 11 | However , Japan 's colonial and expansionist policies were hardly such as to strengthen the Asian nations . |
| 12 | Natural endowments are not such as to suggest the astonishing prominence achieved by Japan in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | Britain , a few years ago , denied extradition to Italy of a convicted terrorist , saying piously that ‘ his personal conduct ’ was not ‘ such as to constitute a present threat to one of the fundamental interests of society ’ . |
| 14 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |
| 15 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 16 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 17 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 19 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 20 | Not gaining weight could mean you 're not meeting the increased dietary needs of pregnancy , the risk being that you are more like to have a low birthweight baby . |
| 21 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 22 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 23 | If the objective function in P1 had been we could have used the formulae ( 3.6 ) for to generate the extra row and then proceed exactly as before . |
| 24 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 25 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 26 | Three generations of Dowdings have run the farm and used herbicides , pesticides and the best the agro-chemical producers could come up with to get the maximum yields . |
| 27 | There are a variety of paths around the reserve as well as local bridleways and footpaths you can link up with to make a longer walk . |
| 28 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 29 | There are plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from to enjoy a cool beer in . |
| 30 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |