Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Merson is playing with a maturity which augers well for a rich future to an England career that started so well in Czechoslovakia last month . |
| 2 | Mike Dawson was sitting at a dead computer , strumming the keyboard and offering a toothy smile to an invisible audience . |
| 3 | The subject of the letter will not be technical and the assignment will involve writing as a private individual to an organisation . |
| 4 | Admittedly that might be a normal reaction to an unexpected visit from a couple of French officers . |
| 5 | In some — perhaps most — cases effusion may be a normal reaction to an upper respiratory tract infection . |
| 6 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 7 | Elements such as correct distance , timing and a prompt withdrawal to an effective position are integral to the award of a full point score . |
| 8 | ‘ What a bloody contrast to an hour ago , ’ he thought to himself . |
| 9 | First is the fact that the same person should be so highly regarded by one English department while being accused of engaging in " discredited intellectual enquiry " in another ; second is the fact that the failure to offer a tenured post to an English teacher at Cambridge should provide the occasion for such unparalleled radio , television , and newspaper coverage of English studies . |
| 10 | Every Department now has a Minister charged with environmental responsibilities — no Government have ever taken such a cross-departmental approach to an issue . |
| 11 | This is a complete defence to an action . |
| 12 | It occurs when a writer applies a name or a descriptive term to an object to which it is not literally applicable ; when a word is carried over from its normal use to a new use . |
| 13 | In March two colleagues were able to take a mobile bookstall to an outreach in Leipzig and to street stands in other places in the former East Germany . |
| 14 | In other cases , economic pressures may impose a stable halt to an arms race , stable even though one side in the race is , in a sense , permanently ahead . |
| 15 | Four days earlier Apple had signed a confidential agreement allowing it to review the object code of Quorum 's Latitude and Equal products , a negotiated response to an earlier Apple demand that Quorum send its Latitude object and source code to Apple 's outside litigation attorneys . |
| 16 | Fournier led Flavia through a back door to an outhouse . |
| 17 | Without those different values , without that recognition of intrinsic value , without a different approach to an interpretation of stewardship , without a truly spiritual understanding of our relationship with the rest of life on Earth , both the Environment Movement and the Animal Welfare Movement are , in my opinion , condemned to irrelevance . |
| 18 | ’ This , in my judgment , is a clear reference to an entitlement under the substantive law . |
| 19 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 20 | In its first application , the golden rule allows the court to prefer a sensible meaning to an absurd meaning , where both are linguistically possible . |
| 21 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 22 | All Eo users in the US will receive a free subscription to an AT&T EasyLink Services AT&T Mail electronic mailbox , accessible through an 800 number for sending and receiving electronic mail and faxes . |
| 23 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that their abolition would have a direct relationship to an increase in unit costs , which would bear most heavily on many of the people who are most in need . |
| 25 | If you simply want to change a direct cylinder to an indirect one or to fit a cylinder with an immersion heater boss , there are ways of adapting an existing direct cylinder — see Upgrading cylinders ( page 52 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I think Dieter 's been a bit naughty , ’ Husband puffed , ‘ but it was a direct follow-up to an incident abroad , so you might say it came under the doctrine of ‘ hot pursuit ’ . ’ |
| 27 | 1986 No. 1925 ) , and a narrative statement to an examiner of the official receiver 's office . |
| 28 | Armed with the appropriate value of the small-signal complex impedance , the signal response of a nonlinear network to any small input may be found in just the same way as the response of a linear network to an input of any magnitude . |
| 29 | The scrutiny approach therefore encouraged the intensive application of a fresh mind to an activity . |
| 30 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |