Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Hudson of Country Life enlisted her services in making that periodical the exponent of culture and the arts to a wide public . |
| 2 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 3 | Perhaps there is a hidden agenda here — a desire for mainstream success in America , a need to introduce old songs to a new audience , a bid for Radio 2 playlisting — but I doubt it . |
| 4 | The latter is frontman for ‘ The Pogues ’ , a New York outfit who play mostly Pogues ' covers to a packed house every Sunday at Paddy Reilly 's . |
| 5 | ‘ Through the forced upgrading of their stadia the clubs got the chance to change their market , from a mixed business economy working and middle class fans to a single economy attracting the the middle classes , ’ says Alex Fynn , an adviser to the Football Association and head of sports marketing at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 6 | Mercedes explains that the biggest problem in developing the five-speed unit is the necessity to reduce mechanical and hydraulic losses to a lower level than had been achieved previously . |
| 7 | In turn these children may give no signals to a busy teacher ‘ scanning ’ the class while working with another group that they are other than fully and productively engaged in their learning tasks . |
| 8 | A transmitter connected to the door bell sends out radio signals to a portable receiver , which chimes when the bell is rung . |
| 9 | He was even kind sometimes , letting old age pensioners have credit if they were short at the end of the week , and once he sent a box of free groceries to a poor woman whose husband had died of pneumonia . |
| 10 | Fashion designers Jean and Martin Pallant and Harpers & Queen cordially invite readers to a special preview of their autumn collection at their fabulous shop in the Pantechnicon building , 19a Motcomb Street , London SW1 . |
| 11 | Harpers & Queen and Marie Soskin Designs , 163 Draycott Avenue , SW3 , cordially invite readers to a special evening to view the Marie Soskin Haute Couture and Ready-to-Wear collections . |
| 12 | The newest breed of newspaper ‘ proprietor ’ — Whittam-Smith of the Independent — would probably abhor the prospect either of alignment with a political party or of dictating demands to a political party . |
| 13 | Certainly , such peace as prevailed owed an immense amount to Jones 's personal stature in the movement , as one of the old-style union leaders who had , nevertheless , taken an outward-looking and creative role in trying to relate union demands to a wider pattern of economic stability and also , incidentally , the wellbeing of a Labour government . |
| 14 | IN ONE of the quickest and most decisive finishes to a British title fight , the glamour boy of boxing , Gary Stretch , successfully defended his light middleweight championship with a first-round stoppage of Derek Wormald . |
| 15 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 16 | ‘ The company 's plan is to relocate its main offices to a five acre green field site . |
| 17 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 18 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 19 | Thus , he tends to argue in a fairly straightforward way from the similarity of behaviour in human beings and animals to a mutual possession of the same ‘ concepts ’ . |
| 20 | And finally , organisms are not passive recipients of their environments ; they can — animals to a greater extent than plants — choose their environment by moving from a less attractive to a more attractive location . |
| 21 | In the hills men and women were combing and washing and polishing chosen animals to a Vogue-like perfection of appearance , winners determined to hold their titles , aspirants determined to displace them . |
| 22 | Sorvino treated his eyes to a final squeeze shut and then listened in . |
| 23 | She tried to change the anxiety in her eyes to a proud gleam . |
| 24 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 25 | He looked curiously at her , watching the shadow darken her eyes to a stormy grey . |
| 26 | That 's the verdict of a European wide panel of judges looking at the entries to a special competition commemorating European Tourism Year . |
| 27 | Let's face it , it 's usually good photographs that attract walkers to a specific place and often convey far more than words can . |
| 28 | Some , such as the caterpillars of the white butterfly , fix their chrysalids to a vertical surface , e.g. a twig or the wall of the cage . |
| 29 | Increase her painkillers to a dangerous level , make do with the district nurses and hope she does n't fall again , which is , in fact , her best chance to get back in hospital ! |
| 30 | Austrian newspaper reports indicated that eight consignments of weapons , illegally delivered to Iran via third countries during 1985-86 , had included 180 GHN-45 cannons , 180 cannon gun barrels , and shells to a total value estimated at Sch4,000 million . |