Example sentences of "is [adv] an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is basically an attempt to group or to classify customers according to similar needs or purchasing characteristics . |
| 2 | It happens all the time — the question is merely an opener to fulfilling a wish to own something new , and merely seeks to confirm that the purchase is a worthy one . |
| 3 | A child , after all , knows most of the game … it is only an attitude to it that he lacks . |
| 4 | Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context . |
| 5 | The immediacy of the job is obviously an attraction to Simmons , born in Merton , south London , and a pupil at Dulwich college who never visualised a career with the AA . |
| 6 | But it is normally an appeal to possible rather than to actual cases that is used to generate scepticism about the existence of minds other than our own . |
| 7 | Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them . |
| 8 | ‘ To a certain extent there is already an answer to the question which form of power the people support , ’ he said , adding that opinion polls showed most Russians favoured a presidential system . |
| 9 | There is always an exception to a rule : I sell an excellent Italian no-cook lasagne . |
| 10 | A councillor who is a student of standing orders is always an asset to the council , but a councillor who is not becomes a burden and a handicap to debate , and frequently a disappointed and frustrated person . |
| 11 | This is more an opportunity to be grabbed than a threat to the survival of Japanese factories abroad . |
| 12 | Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ it is clearly an application to the Patent Office , soliciting the grant of a patent for some kind of process … |
| 14 | There is also an entitlement to maternity pay for six weeks at 90% of pay and a further 12 weeks on maternity benefit . |
| 15 | There is also an equator to pole flow at cloud-top level , but at only 5–10 m/s . |
| 16 | There is also an Index to Periodical Articles Relating to Law which is supplementary to the Index to Legal Periodicals . |
| 17 | There is also an Introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification for British schools , third edition , compiled by B A J Winslade and published in 1977 . |
| 18 | It is also an area to which black people immigrated with positive expectations only to experience racism and to bear a disproportionate burden of hard times . |
| 19 | There is also an upgrade to the SuperSparc ( Viking ) chip for the Sparcserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers , doubling the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points . |
| 20 | I think that , having accepted that , we must also accept that the buying and selling of jobs in this context is also an affront to individuality . |
| 21 | Hay fever is really an allergy to pollen and the peak time is early June . |
| 22 | This is really an alternative to the aïoli , in case you have anti-garlic guests . |
| 23 | As far as language is concerned , therefore , ‘ structure ’ is simply an alternative to Saussure 's concept of relationships ; to be exact , a structure is a set or totality of relationships . |
| 24 | ‘ In my opinion it is almost an encouragement to players to behave recklessly and if he 's been quoted correctly , he has brought the game into disrepute . |
| 25 | It is viewed with some suspicion by staff anxious about the standards of care provided , but there is undoubtedly an advantage to clients , who are able to be cared for in more homely environments rather than long stay wards . |
| 26 | However , if there is then an advancement to the unmarried minor out of capital , that capital is treated as income paid to the child to the extent of the accumulated income . |
| 27 | There is however an exception to this in both stanzas . |
| 28 | Having to keep separate legal entities in every state , each with its own board and each obeying widely varying requirements of company law , is therefore an irritation to Iveco 's integrated European operation . |
| 29 | The collection is certainly an asset to any University , and many will now give the walls a second glance as they rush on to lectures and seminars . |