Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bozburun , in a deep and well sheltered inlet , is worth visiting to see the busy traditional boatyard , and a base to explore the many local day anchorages . |
| 2 | The peak year for French activity was 1377 when , like the Vikings before them , they used the Isle of Wight as a base to harry the whole south coast . |
| 3 | The sensation of amplified vibration used in conjunction with a sound-level meter and a chart to show the relative loudness of different sounds ( from a whisper to a jet aeroplane ) is a useful combination . |
| 4 | Often these prophets saw themselves as reformers , who had a vocation to transform the religious vision of their time . |
| 5 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 6 | A trial to show a clear difference in death rates between men on the old and new dietary patterns would have needed somewhere between 25 000 and 115000 volunteers and would have cost between $0.5 and 1 billion , even at 1971 prices . |
| 7 | Pembrey 's findings were that the role model was important in helping a sister to develop a good management style . |
| 8 | The chapter , and especially the Strategy , may seem to make the reading process far too time-consuming ; a sledgehammer to crack an historical nut ! |
| 9 | This new generation of NHS manager is , it seems , here to stay and brings with it a quality meter to measure our healthcare and a sledgehammer to dismantle the old order . |
| 10 | The cunning thief reached through a cat-flap to unlock the back door before putting the snib on the front door lock and ransacking the house . |
| 11 | moving back a bit to get the bigger picture what 's going on |
| 12 | You may need to fiddle with the valves quite a bit to get the right balance between the different outlets . |
| 13 | Green insisted the artist had always to scramble a bit to get an ideal vantage position . |
| 14 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 15 | When the problems started to emerge with the AGR series , the search began for a successor to keep the British nuclear industry in business . |
| 16 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 17 | UN-supervised talks took place in Geneva , Switzerland , on July 9 on arrangements for holding a referendum to resolve the 14-year-long dispute between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas over the control of the Western Sahara . |
| 18 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 19 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 20 | There was a necessity to get the whole idea across it was n't sufficient to show just the final product . |
| 21 | A crucial breaking-point came in 1983 , when the Labour councillors first took a decision to support a small steel firm and save around sixty jobs , but later withdrew their support leaving the firm to collapse . |
| 22 | The UK Cross-Country Commission has been severely snubbed by the British Amateur Athletic Board , after a decision to overrule the controversial rescheduling of the World Cross-Country Championship Trial Meeting . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Department of Health and social security said a decision to implant an artificial heart would be up to the doctor ‘ like any other replacement operation ’ . |
| 24 | Group financial accountant Tony Hall told ACCOUNTANCY that a decision to use the direct method was taken back in December 1991 so that adequate time could be devoted to making the necessary analyses . |
| 25 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 26 | One of these was in 1905 — a decision to purchase a new set of wheels and axles from Gwynnes for £60 . |
| 27 | One of the judges , Lord Chief Justice Lawton , then inquired whether this meant that the Attorney General was entitled to consider the political trouble which would be caused by a decision to enforce a particular law . |
| 28 | Talk of a summit was not popular in Washington , but Soviet–American exchanges finally resulted in a decision to hold a four-power conference in Paris in May 1960 . |
| 29 | The next Minutes , dated January 11th , 1909 , are unsigned and are the last available until May 1920 ; interestingly they record a decision to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting to alter the Sunday Caddie rule . |
| 30 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |