Example sentences of "to [det] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's , that 's er I w I 'd like to come back er to that a little bit later . |
| 2 | Feynman tells us to consider all such possibilities and to assign to each a complex probability amplitude . |
| 3 | Local lords had originally maintained their followers by allotting to each a specific area of land , rather in the nature of a mediaeval European king assigning fiefs to his followers . |
| 4 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 5 | Due to this a small adjustment , downwards , in the price occurs , to compensate for the dealer being short of funds . |
| 6 | Well add to this a built-in tuner , internal monitor speaker for practising and a versatile range of footswitch control and you 'll see that the RY10 is set to do for guitarists what our ground-breaking QY10 has done for Keyboard players and for just £249 ! |
| 7 | It continues the development of oral/aural skills begun in Departures and adds to this a greater emphasis on reading skills , now that students have progressed beyond the beginner level . |
| 8 | He opposes to this a hermeneutic approach which asks always what a particular utterance is for and where it is located . |
| 9 | Now it was again being ruled that the Yugoslavs should be handed over , so long as it was not necessary to use force — but to this a subsequent note now added a very important qualification . |
| 10 | Such statements derive from the meetings of a specially convened working party on national objectives , but as a preliminary to this a national debate on the purposes of primary education has already taken place in 1978 , culminating in a widely publicised and widely representative National Seminar on the Content of Primary Education . |
| 11 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 12 | Born to an unwed teenage mother in South Carolina , Jackson came of age when no Black man or woman would ever request a public cup of coffee , or enter a public bathroom , or undertake to register to vote , without calculating the easily fatal risks attached to such a simple act . |
| 13 | We are by temperament more favourable to such a simple statement of mutuality as the conclusion to 25 : ‘ Then happy I that love and am belov 'd , /Where I may not remove nor be remov 'd . ’ |
| 14 | My parents were something of traditionalists , and in Haiti it is a tradition that if a baby is born more fit and healthy than average , the mother will add a blemish , such as a scar , in case the lou-garou , the werewolf , should take a liking to such a perfect child . ’ |
| 15 | Although Nicholson 's part in Ensign Pulver was small , being attached to such a poor movie depressed him intensely . |
| 16 | I could hardly refuse to speak to such a good customer on the basis of your suspicions — however correct they turned out to be . |
| 17 | However , today we were seeking , not the long-gone bustard , but the nearest Breckland can offer to such a strange bird : the stone curlew . |
| 18 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 19 | He was bemused by his sudden close proximity to such a powerful individual and enjoyed the attention this brought him from others . |
| 20 | Can we rise to such a dispassionate judgement ? |
| 21 | He gave another laugh , its bitterness apparent , telling her that that was exactly true , though why he should hold so firmly to such a cynical view she could n't imagine . |
| 22 | O rack me not to such a vast extent ; |
| 23 | A reduction in interest rates will result in a fall in the size of this subsidy , and the phasing in of a cash ceiling approach ought to be timed to such a favourable point in time . |
| 24 | The satisfaction of belonging to such a worthwhile organisation |
| 25 | And I 'm sure there 'd be few objections to such a worthwhile cause . |
| 26 | We believe the principles and experiences of the community development process has much to contribute to such a new model . |
| 27 | The 1834 breed standards set by the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society and drawn up by distinguished island breeders showed parti-coloured engravings of the breed but made no reference to the colour of the coat as no importance was attached to such a superficial factor ; however , the light-coloured muzzle ring was specified , and a deep orange colour within the ears , while the skin was of a ‘ good ’ colour . |
| 28 | It is a hazardous task at the best of times to categorise the views of parliamentarians , let alone in respect to such a complex subject as the future relationship between Britain and Europe . |
| 29 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 30 | Young calves , added to such a grazing herd in July , may develop clinical disease within 2-3 weeks . |