Example sentences of "to a [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To obtain a loan , applicants must belong to a professional or trade group of 15 people . |
| 2 | This time move on to a 4 or 5-iron depending on just how low you strike the ball . |
| 3 | 4.20 Where clients are thought to be or are known to be a risk or danger to themselves , other clients or other people and are admitted to a residential or day care facility , their progress must be explicitly monitored by the officer in charge who should keep the line manager informed . |
| 4 | These situations include : episodes of rapid growth , e.g. puberty ; pregnancy ; breast-feeding ; prolonged adherence to a weight-loss programme ; adherence to a very restricted or fad diet ; adherence to a vegetarian or vegan diet , unless it is well balanced ; old age ; taking long-term drugs , such as steroids , diuretics ( water tablets ) , anti-epileptic drugs , and possibly the oral contraceptive pill . |
| 5 | The book is similarly cursory in its treatment of style ( a term that is never defined by the writer ) with not much attention given to a formal or material analysis of the work . |
| 6 | To a Hindu or Buddhist Initiate , ‘ well-being ’ in its highest sense would mean ‘ enlightenment attained ’ . |
| 7 | Conviction could lead to a fine or imprisonment of up to two years , or both . |
| 8 | An association copy can be a book which its author has inscribed to a relative or friend . |
| 9 | One scheme was to transfer his legal estate to a relative or friend who was staying behind , who could look after it and administer it until he returned , or who , should the knight die abroad , could take care of it until the knight 's son reached his majority and could take it over himself . |
| 10 | The Power of Attorney is given to a relative or solicitor to act as Attorney or donee , but this power ought to lapse if the donor is mentally incapacitated , and the Court of Protection should step in . |
| 11 | They should be appropriate to the stated aims of the organisation , rather than to an individual or sub-group 's desire to maximise their own aims . |
| 12 | Private rights of way apply to an individual or group of individuals and not to the public at large . |
| 13 | There is , of course , a major difference between people who hold most of their wealth in land , or stocks and shares and government bonds , or even gold , compared with those whose ‘ wealth ’ is predominantly bound up in their right to an occupational or state pension . |