Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to buy electronic organs ‘ off the shelf ’ , but larger instruments are designed to a customer 's specification and to suit particular buildings . |
| 2 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 3 | Most teachers and headteachers welcome some sort of value added comparison i.e. the value added to a pupil 's educational achievements after entering the school . |
| 4 | Alternatively , where access is available , steel strengthening plates can be added to a beam 's top and bottom surfaces to form flanges . |
| 5 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 6 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 7 | Even if your painting activities are confined to a week 's holiday , preparing yourself by looking into a range of information can be invaluable . |
| 8 | Morose and fretful , Frere contemplated a further defeated return to Cambridge — his promises unkept , his congregation resigned to a curate 's care , his mind racked by remorse and a crippling sense of his own twice-proven inadequacy . |
| 9 | It is also not inappropriate that the word has come to be applied to a person 's position in society , with the clear implication that ‘ getting above your station ’ is somehow wrong and dangerous . |
| 10 | It analyses and reports on the information recorded , so that it can be transferred to a firm 's billing system . |
| 11 | It is , as was stated in Andrew Fortune 's thesis , a proactive rather than reactive approach , where customer service can be tailored to a customer 's needs . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to a year 's imprisonment , suspended for 12 months , and ordered to pay £500 costs and compensation . |
| 13 | He was sentenced to a year 's detention at Waltham Forest Youth Court , East London , yesterday after admitting 47 charges including burglary , drug possession and assault . |
| 14 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 15 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |
| 16 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 17 | Karen reported on a meeting convened by Jenny Borden on consultation on management involving 11 people mostly from Aid Sector : in this meeting Jenny mentioned that no more grades would be created , training should be related to a person 's job only and staff should n't take on other tasks not included in their job description which would lead to dissatisfaction of salary level . |
| 18 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 19 | Aspiring entrants to the profession need therefore to be aware of sociolinguistic variations that are related to a speaker 's sex , the role of gender in language and the possible social implications of both , particularly in classrooms . |
| 20 | Logging of information related to a module 's development within LIFESPAN is retained within Quality Assessment Objects which hold , for a given module name ( ie. type and subtype ) , the state transitions that any instances have undergone and any other textual QAO log entry defined by the associated process model . |
| 21 | Such ‘ anti-social ’ behaviour is related to a horse 's great need for sensory and mental stimulation . |
| 22 | Valium prescription is frequently related to an individual 's social functioning : the person 's ability to live up to social ideals , social expectations and the physician 's judgement are factors in a pseudo objective diagnosis . |
| 23 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 24 | ‘ Cobra ’ , as the £14000 system is known , is connected to a Ferranti CO2 laser . |
| 25 | Connected to a 200Mb WD Caviar 2200 drive , this potent combo made a mockery of CoreTest and produced the highest What Personal Computer Power benchmark on record , over 25,000 . |
| 26 | Closely connected to a horse 's need for sensory stimulation is its need for exercise . |
| 27 | All versions of Okapi up to Okapi '87 were written in Z80 assembly language and operated on a network of Apple IIe microcomputers connected to a Nestar PLAN/4000 file server . |
| 28 | A breach of the peace included a threat made to a person 's property in his presence . |
| 29 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
| 30 | In contrast , when , in the same month , three terrorists were charged with conspiracy to murder Tom King , former Secretary for Northern Ireland , armed not with weapons but with a magazine article on sniping , it was announced in mid-trial that significant changes were to be made to a suspect 's right to silence . |