Example sentences of "to [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 2 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 4 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 5 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 6 | Only a few minshuku are geared to this and a Japanese breakfast of salted fish , rice and miso ( soup ) is all that is available . |
| 7 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 8 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 9 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 10 | It has also raised some practical difficulties in making a transfer of assets from one party to another when a portion of those assets consists of a pension which is not payable for many years to come . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know somebody say Mao leading to such and a such a phase or |
| 12 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 13 | The bungy cord is fixed to these and a safety rope goes on to the harness . |
| 14 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 15 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 16 | However , once the Revolution closed much of the USSR behind its invisible Iron Curtain , both bureaucratic difficulties and high expense effectively put these mountains out of reach to all but a few fortunate climbers . |
| 17 | But in reality this option will be closed to all but a handful . |
| 18 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |
| 19 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 20 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
| 21 | Just five years ago the term desktop publishing was , to all but a select few , a totally unknown expression . |
| 22 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 23 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 24 | And some London pubs have slashed their prices from £1.70 a pint to less than a pound . |
| 25 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 26 | Mike would never agree to less than a six per cent royalty . |
| 27 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 28 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 29 | From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter . |
| 30 | Electromagnetic waves with lengths ranging from several kilometres to less than a metre can be picked up by tuning a radio into long or short wavebands . |