Example sentences of "to [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 2 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 11 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 12 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And some London pubs have slashed their prices from £1.70 a pint to less than a pound . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mike would never agree to less than a six per cent royalty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Their rates of economic activity over recent years have followed the male pattern of rapid decline in the 60–4 age group ( from a third in 1973 to less than a fifth in 1988 ) with a similar decline in , the 55–9 age group ( 60 per cent to 48 per cent ) . |
| 23 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 24 | It is important , though , to limit the size of the plans ( e.g. , to less than a page each ) , so that you keep a simple overview . |
| 25 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 27 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 28 | If the glider is down wind of the site , the decision to return must be taken before the glider gets to less than an angle of about 20° to the field in light winds , and 30–40° in windy weather . |
| 29 | Poor solvents have values of χ 1 close to 0.5 while an improvement in solvent power lowers χ 1 . |
| 30 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |