Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to photography via a Fine Arts degree , a teaching qualification and a career which combined teaching , private painting projects and social work . |
| 2 | The fact that water is available is used to advantage in a simple water-scrubber for cleaning the gas . |
| 3 | Alan 's term began again on January 20th , and he returned to university with a guilty sense of relief . |
| 4 | Seconds later the muezzin of a hundred Delhi mosques called the Faithful to prayer with a loud cry of ‘ Allaaaaah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 5 | At dawn the next day we were awoken by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque . |
| 6 | Elections held on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , following a vote of no confidence in the minority government of the Social Democratic Party ( Partido Social Demócrata — PSD ) , returned the PSD to parliament with an outright majority ; the country 's first majority government since 1974 was subsequently formed on Aug. 17 , 1987 , by the Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaco Silva . |
| 7 | Such a step might not involve a great deal of additional work in the legislative process , since Bills are already accompanied on presentation to Parliament by an Explanatory and Financial Memorandum , which is frequently well drafted and helpful . |
| 8 | Swinton 's idea for three companies was also presented to parliament in a White Paper , but the general election of July 1945 brought Labour to power before any of the wartime government 's plans could be implemented . |
| 9 | Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact . |
| 10 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 11 | The provision of single-sex schools is not unlawful ; nor is it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of sex in relation to admission to a single-sex school . |
| 12 | It is , however , difficult to see how ambitious practice aims could be realised from payments made and therefore subject to change on a quarterly basis . |
| 13 | Other types of switch involve a change of code from Creole to London English and back to Creole within a single turn . |
| 14 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 15 | Not even a Guy-Fawkes bonfire that scorches you head to toe with a hot and lavish lick and leaves your back frosted and tingling . |
| 16 | Spoon the dip into the pineapple shells and arrange them top to toe on a large serving plate . |
| 17 | He was a striking figure with a long , dour face , the head completely shaven , his thin body clothed from head to toe in a black gown and cloak . |
| 18 | A black lacy wimple framed her beautiful white face while her splendid body was clothed from neck to toe in a pure black silk gown , the only concession to any alleviating colour being the white lace cuffs and collar and the small jewelled cross which swung from a gold chain round her neck . |
| 19 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 20 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 21 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 22 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 23 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 24 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 25 | And since she had no idea where to go yet , even if she could get off the island , the only course possible was to take things a step at a time and try not to rail against a spiteful fate . |
| 26 | In the future it may be possible to convert water to hydrogen on a large scale by electrolysis , for example . |
| 27 | And lanthanum could become extremely valuable if the world decides to turn to hydrogen as a novel fuel ; a mixture of lanthanum and nickel absorbs hydrogen safely and easily and so could become an important storage mechanism for the gas . |
| 28 | She is entitled to sympathy for a broken marriage which was not purely of her doing . |
| 29 | Section 5 covers convictions for minor offences , e.g. a failure to deliver a return , account or document to the Registrar of Companies , and may lead to disqualification for a maximum period of five years . |
| 30 | Its Win/U answer to the problem is expected to debut as a commercial product by the end of the year and is claimed to be a step ahead of rival technologies because it requires no Windows source code , see page four . |