Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if that is true then we ought to be able to re- forecast a year getting a reasonable assessment , okay , on what 's that going to do . |
| 2 | To that extent a board should independently review profit progress to date as well as carefully evaluate and then endorse strategic recommendations made by the senior executive team which will have a long-term and substantial impact on profit . |
| 3 | Oh could you hang on to that lot a minute . |
| 4 | They believe that since the Age of Aquarius started , people are beginning to be a lot nicer to each other a lot more responsible , caring and understanding . |
| 5 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 6 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 7 | J. Milroy developed techniques for handling quantitatively data of this kind by assigning to each speaker a range score calculated simply by counting from left to right the number of columns through which the variants ranged , and subtracting 1 . |
| 8 | Motivating very loving owners to adopt a ‘ nothing in life is free ’ policy can be tough , but a good way is to each place a money box on the mantelpiece . |
| 9 | On September and the teams will congregate in Belfast , Londonderry , Comber , Donaghadee and Fermanagh to each attempt a project benefitting the local community . |
| 10 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 11 | Thereafter , it is added to each time a QAO log entry is actioned . |
| 12 | and he says and I 'm putting in God knows how many hours , he said and we got a drop to fifty pound a day . |
| 13 | I mean they 'd , they 'd , they 'd be doing probably anything up to forty mile a day were n't they ? |
| 14 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 15 | In January 1984 , Lord Hailsham reprimanded a Recorder who attacked as an affront to British justice a decision by Woolworths to prosecute a widow aged seventy-seven for shoplifting . |
| 16 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 17 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 18 | Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development . |
| 19 | Coal as an export commodity is to some extent a casualty of the shift in the economic mix of the Western industrialised nations away from energy intensive ‘ smokestack ’ industries and towards higher added value , higher technology industries . |
| 20 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 21 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 22 | The long running teachers ' dispute which began in November 1984 was to some extent a response to the way the education service had been handled by three successive governments . |
| 23 | This scheme can also be used to classify the literature to which these labels apply ; if so , this ceases to be a strict subject classification and becomes to some extent a classification by the form in which the literature is written ; for example , its language and literary form . |
| 24 | Julius Caesar is to some extent a case apart , being not only one of his most successful operas when first performed in 1724 , but also the most frequently revived this century , recently even having the dubious distinction of being given the ‘ Peter Sellars ’ treatment on television . |
| 25 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 26 | Thus , instead of raiding the countryside under cover of defending it , or stealing money to pay for horses and their harnesses , the nobility entered the royal service in large numbers in both England and France so that , ironically , ‘ the budget of the State was to some extent a budget of noble assistance ’ ; used by kings on both sides of the Channel to pay the nobility , among others , for their services in war . |
| 27 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 28 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 29 | The term ‘ pendentive ’ is to some extent a misnomer since it appears to define a form which depends from the dome instead of , as it does , supporting it . |
| 30 | In the United States this ideal is to some extent a matter |