Example sentences of "[det] an [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The May sunset was red in clouds , and there was still half an hour to twilight . |
| 2 | And when Phil Newport was run out for seven Worcestershire were well down the road to their 90 all out — extras top score of twenty one — and it was still half an hour to lunch . |
| 3 | It took Paul , Kate , Helen and Michael about half an hour to wolf down the lot . |
| 4 | The clerk listened with half an ear to Ranulf 's chatter about the banquet and the Prince 's open display of affection for Gaveston . |
| 5 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 6 | He 's such an opposite to Jamie , I thought they were like almost alike but they 're not . |
| 7 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 8 | Such an attitude to nature has always been hideous . |
| 9 | They argue that such an approach to knowledge ‘ is associated with a particular kind of masculinity that is currently hegemonic ’ . |
| 10 | Thru demonstrates by means of a parodic conflation and manipulation of selected literary theories the problems inherent in such an approach to literature , and it uncovers the value-laden stories which subtend it . |
| 11 | Such an approach to language presentation of course means that contexts have to be contrived to motivate this lexical modification and to guide the learner in the discriminating and differential use of grammatical analysis . |
| 12 | This project concerns the application of such an approach to data from the British National Readership Survey . |
| 13 | It seems important and fruitful to develop such an approach to Earth Mysteries — this link with the very rock beneath us . |
| 14 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 15 | The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive . |
| 16 | I turn now to the question of the relevance of such an account to language learning , in particular as that process is carried out in classrooms under the direction , or at least the surveillance , of the teacher . |
| 17 | To obviate these an alternative to stratification is to concentrate the sample within selected subgroups , or clusters , of the population which makes interviewing more convenient by concentrating respondents together . |
| 18 | All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . |
| 19 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 20 | In a speech on March 30 to mark the Moslem feast-day of Lailat al-Qadr , President Hosni Mubarak made more direct criticism than previously of " religious fanaticism " which had strayed from the correct teachings of Islam , and " ethnic fanaticism " ( the latter an allusion to attacks against Coptic Christians ) . |