Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 2 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 3 | SIR , — Recent reports advocate the use of nitric oxide ( NO ) inhalation as an addition to conventional treatment in acute pulmonary hypertension and abnormal gas exchange in conditions such as adult respiratory distress syndrome , primary pulmonary hypertension of the newborn , and in postoperative pulmonary hypertension after thoracic surgery . |
| 4 | It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) . |
| 5 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 6 | The conservative pro-government newspaper El Diario de Hoy denounced the UN mission as an insult to national sovereignty and accused the UN mediators in the current peace process of being pro-communist . |
| 7 | As a result , it has been possible to interpret the experience of history as justifying or reinforcing an attachment to empirical problem-solving and to the virtues of cooperation and trust . |
| 8 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 9 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 10 | Hooliganism is partly an assertion of ‘ hardness ’ and an attachment to local territory , which the boys see as the traditional characteristics of their class . |
| 11 | The engine 's lovely , lugging delivery ( it is not all bad , you see ) serves as an antidote to frenetic driving . |
| 12 | In any case the State Department was uncertain about the nature of the Vietminh 's communist connections — ‘ possibly in indirect touch with Moscow and direct touch with Yenan ’ — and French influence was reckoned to be important not only as an antidote to Soviet influence but also to protect Vietnam and Southeast Asia from ‘ future Chinese imperialism ’ . |
| 13 | Christians and humanists are not alone in agreeing that doubt can be an antidote to inauthentic faith or to error and falsehood . |
| 14 | The overweight person , on the other hand , is usually not so mindful of internal sensations as a cue for eating or abstaining , and is less likely to take exercise as an antidote to excess indulgence . |
| 15 | National Insurance is both a tax to finance current social-security spending and an entitlement to future benefit . |
| 16 | It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career . |
| 17 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 18 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 19 | Two election leaflets describe him as ‘ an adviser to British industry ’ more specifically , he is a merchant banker and as a city councillor on ‘ a major local authority . ’ |
| 20 | This sounds like an attempt to second-guess market opinion , as impossible as the attempt to guess the outcome of a beauty contest . |
| 21 | John Walsh has written of Methodism earlier in the century when it was still painfully experiencing instigated mob hostility that it is " improbable that infant Methodism was strong enough to have much overall effect as an emollient to industrial disturbance , let alone prevent a general revolt " . |
| 22 | THE ‘ green ’ credentials of nuclear power as an alternative to ozone-depleting fossil fuels were overwhelmingly accepted after a debate in the Cambridge Union Engineering Society . |
| 23 | It is true that contractual accountability may be viewed as an alternative to political accountability , but much of what the voluntary sector does is not capable of precise measurement for inclusion in a contract . |
| 24 | Designed as an alternative to traditional colouring products , this unique range of natural plant based hair colours is totally chemical free , biodegradable and is leading the way in professional , natural hair colourants . |
| 25 | As an alternative to absolute methanol , biopsy samples were subdivided and fixed for 18–24 hours in 10% buffered formalin , 70% ethanol , 70% methanol , and a commercially available alcoholic fixative called ‘ Primafix ’ . |
| 26 | The sylvan sisters are ‘ spotless ’ and an alternative to guilty passion with Cynthio ; Daphne will be safe from sexual feeling and sexual betrayal in their company . |
| 27 | Certainly they should not be allowed to fall back on supplementary schools as an alternative to mainstream provision . |
| 28 | As an alternative to actual contact , knowledge about the family of origin can be supplied through discussion , photographs , letters and family albums . |
| 29 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 30 | NCR Corp says it plans to establish retail computer service centres in more than 50 US metropolitan areas as an alternative to on-site maintenance : the service centres will offer carry-in and mail-in hardware maintenance on a wide variety of desktop personal computers and peripherals , from NCR and third parties ; the centres will also market products including power line conditioners , upgrades and consumables , and NCR personal computers . |