Example sentences of "to a [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens to a river 's aquatic life when the deluge strikes ? |
| 2 | Sometimes such attitudes are secondary to a patient 's current mood state ; in other cases they are long-standing and firmly established . |
| 3 | After visitors have departed , nurses should pay attention to a patient 's non-verbal behaviour as well as to what is said . |
| 4 | No serial lead is included as the Pocket is small and light enough to be attached directly to a PC 's serial port . |
| 5 | Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village 's own housing scheme . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Local authorities are expected to resolve any questions as to a child 's ordinary residence by agreement , failing which the Secretary of State will decide ( s30(2) ) . |
| 8 | GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example . |
| 9 | Certainly , these early learning years are crucial to a child 's educational development . |
| 10 | In the end , it is down to a person 's individual choice whether to be bad and to commit crime . |
| 11 | Compared with these major risk factors , the contribution of life stress and the much-ridiculed ‘ coronary-prone ’ or Type A personality ( aggressive , ambitious , restless and excessively concerned with time and deadlines ) to a person 's coronary risk profile is small . |
| 12 | An indirect reference : It is unkind to make allusions to a person 's physical defects . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing in section 4 ( 1 ) above shall affect the determination of any issue , or prevent the admission or requirement of any evidence , relating to a person 's previous convictions or to circumstances ancillary thereto — |
| 14 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 15 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 16 | The way to a man 's mathematical heart is to get him ( and her ! ) grappling with characteristically mathematical problems and enjoying the experience . |
| 17 | Manual searches of their large and continually growing personnel registers for matches to a customer 's specific requirements was becoming uneconomic due to its labour intensity . |
| 18 | Whilst these are certainly legitimate concerns , it does mean that a private customer is deprived of the extra flexibility of the OTC market with its ability to tailor the maturity and other critical terms of the contract to a customer 's exact needs . |
| 19 | She feels that a period in research should be an asset to a nurse 's cv , rather than being regarded as time off from ‘ real ’ nursing . |
| 20 | Tessiers sticks to a girl 's best friend |
| 21 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 22 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |
| 23 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 24 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 25 | Smoke billowed overhead and out of it , rising fast even to a nome 's high-speed senses , was a long , growing cloud tipped with fire . |
| 26 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 27 | A lending bank must concern itself as to a country 's political stability . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the space beneath a car is much more accessible to a cat 's small body and the damage is easily done . |
| 29 | I liken this action to a cat 's attention-seeking display ( though in the Oscar 's case food is the motivator as they are always hungry ) . |
| 30 | ‘ This sort of thing can actually work out to a station 's ultimate advantage if handled correctly , which it has been , since you 've shown us to be flexible and public-spirited . |