Example sentences of "these [noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intermediate students will sharpen up their reading skills in applying these strategies to a number of academic texts . |
| 2 | He collaborated with his friend Conrad Beck , the optical manufacturer , in applying these improvements to a production model , and the Beck–Barnard instrument , the first really efficient ultraviolet microscope , was placed on the market in 1929 . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war in 1939 brought these pursuits to a temporary halt . |
| 4 | Conversely , it is no accident that people who search in their careers for stability , structure and avoidance of risk acquire these values to a large extent in their childhood . |
| 5 | In a system which promises promotion , status and success to all and , in reality , confines these rewards to a very few , disappointment is inevitable . |
| 6 | In the Introduction Taylor explained that he had committed these rules to a book because many of ‘ his brethren in persecution ’ were no longer able to seek the advice of Anglican Ministers . |
| 7 | Statistical techniques for manpower planning : Development of statistical methods for use in manpower planning ; Application of these methods to a large database consisting of career histories of employees working in the public sector . |
| 8 | Statistical modelling of spells in a geriatric ward : Development of models to describe the length of stay of patients in geriatric wards and flows of patients between wards and in and out of hospital ; Applications of these models to a database of patients ' histories in geriatric care . |
| 9 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 10 | While certain proteins cause these effects to a less extent than others , it is generally considered that uncontrolled adsorption of protein on surfaces in large amounts is undesirable if the surface is to be biocompatible . |
| 11 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 12 | The autistic child may have any of these abilities to a considerably greater degree than a child of higher or even very high intelligence . |
| 13 | However , BBCBASIC(Z80) has 2 functions ( RAD and DEG ) which perform these conversions to a higher accuracy . |
| 14 | But Veronica had stopped short , perhaps embarrassed by making these revelations to a stranger , and Loretta had a distinct feeling that she was expected to go now . |
| 15 | The decision was also taken to move these fish to a larger tank ( 36″ × 15″ × 15″ ) to cope with the added load of the extra fish . |
| 16 | By definition this is largely an enterprise of elders and women who are charged with transmitting these traditions to a new generation . |
| 17 | We have done all we can to keep these changes to a minimum . |
| 18 | In what way does stating ( correctly ) that some people possess these qualities to a greater degree mean that Sinead does not ? |
| 19 | They may feel relaxed , drowsy and so on , and attribute these feelings to a special ‘ state ’ . |
| 20 | The unfamiliar part of the process lies in relating these questions to a computerized end product . |
| 21 | It 's sobering to note that while the British have a mass of facetious academics for each real intellectual , and hardly any big fat writers on the lines of the US , Angela Carter , at the time of Nights at the Circus , was both these things to a world-class degree . |
| 22 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 23 | It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum . |
| 24 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |
| 25 | ( A law drafted by the military in November 1991 , and approved by the Congress , allowed the President to transfer these powers to a serving officer — see p. 38674 . ) |
| 26 | Millward Brown are pioneers and — to an extent — specialists in tracking studies ( see above ) ; and they have linked information on awareness from these studies to a model of advertising decay rates based on the Adstock concept , developed by Simon Broadbent of Leo Burnett , to develop a model that attempts to link advertising expenditures and awareness to market share . |
| 27 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 28 | A small change in these leads to a solution that ultimately diverges from the original one . |
| 29 | You also leave these people to a rail of hideous nylon tights , with pictures of lions and words like ‘ climb ’ in block capitals transferred inexpertly on to the fabric . |
| 30 | The introduction of the new ‘ income support ’ and ‘ family credit ’ schemes involves the adaptation of most of these people to a more routine computerized system . |