Example sentences of "to [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delta Libræ is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 4.8 to 6.1 and a period of 2.33 days . |
| 2 | Finally there is the Cepheid variable T Vulpeculæ , with a range of from 5.4 to 6.1 and a period of 4.4 days . |
| 3 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 4 | After lunch ( not included ) visit the Medieval town of Gouda , famous for its cheese but with a lot more to discover such as St. Jans Kerk which contains over half of Holland 's antique stained-glass windows , the Gothic City Hall dating back to 1430 and a collection of fascinating museums . |
| 5 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 6 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 8 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 9 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 10 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 11 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 12 | It has also raised some practical difficulties in making a transfer of assets from one party to another when a portion of those assets consists of a pension which is not payable for many years to come . |
| 13 | In addition the National Free Church Council supported a peace mission by W. R. Cremer , Radical MP for Haggerston from 1885 to 1895 and a Wesleyan . |
| 14 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 15 | Zeta is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 3.6 to 4.1 and a period of 1.67 days ; suitable comparisons are Eta ( 4.4 ) , Delta and Chi Eridani ( 3.7 ) . |
| 16 | My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone . |
| 17 | Set in the charged atmosphere of a thirties New York summer , Rocket to the Moon is a tale of romance , stifled sexuality and thwarted ambition … at a time when it was considered next to impossible that a rocket could reach the moon . |
| 18 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 19 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 20 | Why allowed three minutes for , but I might extend that to three and a quarter , I think , if the time goes well . |
| 21 | The 7-year sentence originally imposed was adjudged to be excessive and reduced to three and a half . |
| 22 | Gone down from ten pence to three and a half . |
| 23 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 24 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 25 | The bungy cord is fixed to these and a safety rope goes on to the harness . |
| 26 | By 1908 Wilson noted that the 1,000 or so Chinese seamen shipped at United Kingdom ports in 1905 had increased by 1907 to 5,000 and a deputation of 40 seamen was organised to wait upon Winston Churchill , then President of the Board of Trade . |
| 27 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 28 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 29 | But in reality this option will be closed to all but a handful . |
| 30 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |