Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 2 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 3 | and it can not produce an alternative to a defective police case . |
| 4 | They succeed by a greater division of labour , with most volunteers carrying responsibility for generalist advice while referring complex work to a few specialists . |
| 5 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 6 | A general exclusion clause which restricts liability to a monetary figure , or by reference to a liquidated damages formula , could well be reasonable , depending upon the actual figure or formula , which should be judged on the criteria relating to such limitations of liability discussed above . |
| 7 | When she is older I will send the child to a good girls ’ school and see that she is taught English . |
| 8 | For some inexplicable reason , professional firms have previously considered that the.financial management procedures relevant to corporate entities bore little relevance to a professional services partnership . |
| 9 | Although a number of exclusions under the Act exist , there is none which is of general relevance to a UK-based futures dealer , broker , manager or adviser . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact he increased the fee to a thousand dollars . ’ |
| 11 | The most publicised of these was the terrible DC-10 accident to a Turkish Airlines aircraft near Paris . |
| 12 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 13 | But his happy demeanour is n't likely to last , because not only has he got the move to a new premises in Nantes to handle , along with the updating of the 300 coupe and convertibles he 'll build next year to use Renault 's up-and-coming 24-valve V6 , he 's also got the De la Chapelle Parcours in his hands . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana has sent a secret cash gift to a battered wives ' refuge that the Mirror has been campaigning to save . |
| 15 | If your hospitalization is sudden , say , you are struck down with appendicitis at work , ask your work colleagues to telephone the neighbour who keeps your spare key and ask him or her to check that your home is all right , look after your pet or take your pet to a local kennels or vet to be looked after , water your plants , and generally keep an eye on things . |
| 16 | Yidana had reported the results of his investigation to a Special Investigations Board , which concluded that 10 people should be prosecuted for murder , including the head of National Security . |
| 17 | The same writer recommended giving glasshouse room to a few hedgehogs , ideal for keeping down woodlice . |
| 18 | At secondary modern school , which he despised , he recalls an outing to a local metalworks factory . |
| 19 | A party of girls who went on an outing to a local Guides ' camp were surprised to find that the accommodation there was even more primitive than that at Great Engeham . |
| 20 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 21 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 22 | In fact , their own chairman , John Dunster , presented a paper to a United Nations session on atomic power in 1958 in which he revealed that some polonium had been released . |
| 23 | I want the maximum degree of unity , but I also want a treaty to be constructed that carries no inexorable commitment to a united states of Europe . |
| 24 | There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals . |
| 25 | There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals . |
| 26 | Let us suppose that your department is keen to try investigative work ; some have been on courses ; there is access to a few ideas from books and journals ; and the main concern is how people will cope personally and pedagogically in the classroom . |
| 27 | With this technique it is possible to restrict activation to a few cells and , by simultaneously monitoring single unit activity through a nearby recording electrode , establish the extent of spread of effective stimulation . |
| 28 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 29 | Beware of snow showers , because they can reduce visibility to a few yards , making a safe landing impossible . |
| 30 | I repeated the story to a delighted Waits . |