Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it seems to me such an object would be recognised by any soldier . ’ |
| 2 | And before you leave us I want you all to hear what the Senior Medical Officer said to me half an hour ago . |
| 3 | Tony Wedd taught me to spot them as possible ley markers , and the sight of a clump or an individual pine standing alone on a ridge still fills me with excitement , perhaps a resonance with the ancient traveller to whom such a sight meant the security and guidance that the straight tracks provided . |
| 4 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 5 | E. E. Kellett wrote of Joseph Parker , ‘ Why should people to whom such a pleasure as this was open , desire to go to the theatre ? |
| 6 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 7 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 8 | It is necessary to question the extent to which such a core needs to be organised in terms of hierarchies or fragmented by function . |
| 9 | The preceding analysis illustrates the extent to which such a proposition is misguided . |
| 10 | If fraternity is the foundation stone of the British approach to obscenity , through the courts and the public authorities , then it is relevant to discover the extent to which such a principle plays any part at all in the regulation of obscene matter in the United States , given the fact that the USA produces the vast majority of publications which appear before the courts of America Europe and the free world . |
| 11 | While Beer 's hypothesis is plausible as to the effect of institutions that fail to meet new expectations on legitimacy in government , it is arguable as to the extent to which such a failure to meet expectations has taken place . |
| 12 | Those restrictions relate to : ( a ) prices to be charged for goods or services ; or ( b ) the terms or conditions on or subject to which goods or services are to be supplied ; or ( c ) the quantities or descriptions of goods to be produced , supplied or acquired or the extent to which , or the scale on which services are to be made available supplied or obtained ; or ( d ) the manufacturing process to be used , or the quantities or the description of goods to which such a process is to be applied ; or ( e ) the form or manner in which services are to be made available , supplied or obtained ; or ( f ) the persons to , for or from whom or the areas or places in or from which goods or services are to be supplied or acquired . |
| 13 | Though the extent to which such a consciousness exists is not clear , one aspect of it is beyond dispute : 35 per cent of McGreil 's random sample of Dubliners and 46 per cent of the males in the sample , including a spread from the younger age groups and the more educated , supported the view that ‘ the use of violence , while regrettable , has been necessary for the achievement of non-Unionist rights ’ ( Mác Gréil 1977 : 387 ) . |
| 14 | In any scientific investigation , the extent to which an observed difference is due only to some deliberate perturbation ( internal validity ) and the extent to which such a difference reflects a real difference in the parent population ( external validity ) is dependent on avoidance of a variety of pitfalls . |
| 15 | It is of interest to consider the issue of women in comparison with other issues in relation to which such a methodology has been applied . |
| 16 | The court to which such an application is made is the court to which the debtor would present his own petition unless the demand was served by a Government department , the debt is the subject of a judgment and the demand indicated an intention to present a bankruptcy petition in the High Court , in which case the application is made to the High Court . |
| 17 | First , the sequence of developments to which such an initiative gives rise can not be predicted with accuracy , and a project such as the ESSE/L Project can well have unintended consequences which , though not stated as objectives , deserve evaluative comment . |
| 18 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 19 | The limitations of this view of the policy-making process will be explored , but first there is a need to identify more explicitly the institutions of government to which such an analysis must relate . |
| 20 | But if any of the women folks which I 've gone out with a a bowl of soup to him many a time . |
| 21 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 22 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |