Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mr. Leitch established his public house in the village of Ardersier , so conveniently placed to catch the military traffic from Fort George , he wisely retained his seat in the council of the royal burgh of Nairn , and for a valuable parliamentary elector a mere transfer to the desired post was very little for a member of parliament to arrange . |
| 2 | Dexter found his brevity a refreshing contrast to the self-conscious talkativeness of most of the people who worked at TV London . |
| 3 | The rest of the objects were more in keeping with the plastic table mats than with the linen cloth , for Mrs Maugham was in practice a sworn friend to the synthetic ; to her , utility was a prime virtue . |
| 4 | How often is their only guidance a vague wish to " find out " about something , be it dinosaurs , railways or whatever ? |
| 5 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |
| 6 | Volatility in aid flows is notoriously difficult from the recipient 's point of view , and the US Congress has made American aid a dangerously-poisoned chalice to the recipients . |
| 7 | On Yeltsin 's initiative , representatives of the Russian Federation , Byelorussia , Kazakhstan and the Ukraine on Feb. 4 had begun talks aimed at establishing what would be in effect an alternative union to that proposed in the draft Union Treaty . |
| 8 | That it was not straightforward gave the deal an added excitement to Pink . |
| 9 | More recently local trade unionists and many of the members of our organization in Easington decided that to commemorate the , the occasion , they would work to get a new trade union banner for the Easington Trade Union Council and that 's the example and that 's the reward of their particular work a magnificent tribute to those pit men that died eighty one years ago , er forty two years ago . |
| 10 | In summary , Collins have pulled out of participation in the National Corpus Project and Longman have given a commitment to participate in the National Corpus Project , which leaves us having submitted a proposal a revised proposal to the D T I , erm fully documenting Longman 's contribution , erm but leaving O U P's role and financial contribution to the project open in anticipation that there is likely to be some rearrangements amongst the industrial partners , that is there may be a reallocation of funding between Longman and O U P and maybe the addition of new partners erm or it may just stay as it is erm . |
| 11 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 12 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 13 | The white phosphorus matches were dangerous and their manufacture a serious danger to health . |
| 14 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 15 | You should put yourself first and not care or be possessive about your children , or about making your husband the breadwinner happy , or making the home a nice place to be . ’ ’ |
| 16 | At home a constitutional commitment to democracy has resulted in an almost unbroken dominance of conservative political parties . |
| 17 | The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) politburo on April 9 published in the name of the party central committee an open letter to all Soviet communists entitled For consolidation on a foundation of principle . |
| 18 | The hedge-surrounded , flower-filled field supports a host of living creatures , making a meadow an attractive proposition to the wildlife gardener . |
| 19 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 20 | It will be of interest to see whether the reasoning is applied to the courts ' powers of review ; if this took place a general right to reasoned decisions would have evolved . |
| 21 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 22 | When you look at the popular big four-wheel drive off-roaders , the difference is more marked : 27 mpg at touring speeds makes a Land Rover Discovery turbo diesel a viable alternative to a large estate car , but 18 mpg from the petrol V8 would put it out of court for many private buyers . |
| 23 | Apart from the attractiveness of the flowers , the fleshy , leathery , circular or oval leaves of diverse coloration make the water-lily a favourite plant to be kept in the heated and unheated aquarium . |
| 24 | A stern anchor to the north-west , about a hundred yards distant from the buoy , then a bow anchor a similar distance to the south-east . ’ |
| 25 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |
| 26 | His eyes were on Meredith , who was framed against the peeling ochre wall , her flame-burst of hair a startling contrast to her pale cream skin and the delicate snowflakes which lay scattered on her head like confetti . |
| 27 | Only in the case of sufferers from the " family disease " who genuinely have both psychiatric and addictive disease are specific psychiatric drugs of any value and not in this case a definite hindrance to recovery . |
| 28 | This national policy was in part a semi-conscious response to an intense awareness of vulnerability , to the threat of cultural imperialism and loss of national identity . |
| 29 | The position of the followers of Barth represents in part a theological reaction to the sort of pressure that theism has been put under by the philosophical school associated with Ayer , ‘ logical positivism ’ . |
| 30 | Thus in France a quickening movement favouring patronal associations in the 1890s was in part a defensive response to a trade union movement which was about to adopt an ideology of radical syndicalism that appeared more threatening . |