Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The SuperSparc-II will move to a 0.6-micron technology and Sun will add an enhanced integer unit , new floating point and dual-launch floating point .
2 The SuperSparc-II will move to a 0.6-micron technology and Sun will add an enhanced integer unit , new floating point and dual-launch floating point .
3 Four short putts , one after the other , were crucial to a plucky Keenan and she missed them all .
4 And when Keith , 40 , collapsed , Peter coolly switched to a mobile channel and cried : ‘ 19 for a Roger — help ! ’
5 Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend .
6 Deafened by meningitis at the age of five , he , like John Young , is a Scot , married to a deaf wife and father of a hearing daughter .
7 Evolving over centuries , the fabric of the Nafferton which stands today bears witness to a continuous process or both change and continuity .
8 The weir at Melrose Cauld on the Tweed has been rebuilt to a dangerous design and is no longer considered safe to shoot at any point .
9 Another perhaps rather negative exception concerns references to a prospective employer or higher education or other training body , though here there is a discretion .
10 The price must be clearly legible to a prospective purchaser and clearly identifiable as referring to the goods in question .
11 She rises to a metaphoric euphoria and discovers her vocation :
12 Furthermore , when horses , mules and donkeys are pastured together a horse foal may accidentally bond to a female mule and be thought to be her offspring .
13 We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) .
14 For the reasons that I have endeavoured to outline , I think that the assistant recorder came to a correct conclusion and I too would dismiss this appeal .
15 Its exterior was , however , more elaborate , built to a Palladian design and fronted by an impressive classical portico .
16 Finally , imagine that the designs and products of the practising engineer are so unpredictable , so prone to delay , error and collapse , that the remark ‘ Sorry sir , it was a computer programming error ’ is taken as an adequate excuse for almost any misfortune , from an inflated tax claim to a delayed spacecraft or the near-triggering of a nuclear war .
17 It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward .
18 Rumours — that Fama of The Possessed which can swell to a raging flood but equally can sink into a hoarse inward whisper — rumours of incendiarism abound .
19 Transfer to a roasting tin and bake for 30 minutes until crispy .
20 Many women need extra financial help from the state in order to bring their incomes up to a minimum figure and to help with their rent and rates .
21 There are two types of elicitation pro-cedure ; the first involves the child in making a non-verbal response to a verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's comprehension of spoken language .
22 The finding of Butler and Glass ( 1974 ) that the magnitude of the CNV was greater over the left hemisphere prior to a verbal task and greater over the right hemisphere prior to a facial discrimination task might lead one to expect that the direction of CNV asymmetry can be predicted on the basis of selective hemispheric involvement in particular tasks .
23 The relative contribution of multifactorial transmission is defined by H , the heritability ( in the narrow sense ) , which reflects genetic transmission not ascribed to a major gene and cultural transmission : H=C/V .
24 Moreover , the regular repetitive features of a language have only a secondary kind of importance , whereas what is primarily important is the meaning which is not related significantly either to a causal order or to a statistically treatable random order .
25 A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun , divorced from politics .
26 Taking her hand , Roman steered her to a right-hand fork and she stumbled after him .
27 In tests on products made to a modified formula or by a modified process , or in tests on new packages , the original product or package should invariably be used as a control .
28 Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself .
29 ‘ In the Court of Appeal considerable doubt was expressed by that court as to whether an absolute prohibition on the import of a particular description of goods could amount to a quantitative restriction or a measure having equivalent effect , so as to fall within the ambit of Article 30 at all .
30 Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer .
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