Example sentences of "[verb] to a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We are now committed to a permanent merry-go-round for the European Parliament at a huge cost in terms of cash and efficiency , ’ said Mr Peter Price , Euro MP for London South-East . |
| 3 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 4 | Here , newcomers do compete with the locals , contributing to a higher demand for rural housing which , together with the restricted supply , has led to extensive changes in the nature of the rural housing market . |
| 5 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |
| 6 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 7 | Lamb stresses the importance of keeping to a strict timetable for meals . |
| 8 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Rother Valley referred to a national plan for energy . |
| 10 | For the low risk junctions , however , this result appears to be completely reversed , the high risk exemplars have a slightly lower number of hits than the less risky ones and considerably more false alarms , this corresponds to a higher P(A) for the least risky exemplars . |
| 11 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 12 | The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , General Bradley , objected to a British proposal for a joint study of future Soviet moves . |
| 13 | On another occasion , he dissuaded from listening to a hare-brained proposal for a military take-over of the government . |
| 14 | Suppose that an input signal with Fourier transform is applied to a four-terminal network for which the transfer function is . |
| 15 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 16 | Beyond that , the official Libyan theory rested mainly on the proposition that the suitcase containing the bomb had been sent unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt , where , undetected by Pan Am 's inadequate security arrangements , it was loaded on to a feeder flight to London and then transferred to a third aircraft for the New York leg of the journey . |
| 17 | Air pollution in the Thai capital of Bangkok has reached the point where it is " a serious threat to public health " , killing 1,400 per year , according to a new report for the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , Ranking Environmental Health Risks in Bangkok . |
| 18 | To aid this process we might introduce structured directories in which documents could be stored according to a common logic for later retrieval or archiving . |
| 19 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 20 | After council meetings they adjourned to a local pub for a refreshing drink paid for out of their own pockets . |
| 21 | Initiated in 1989 and subsequently entrusted to a royal commission for drafting [ see pp. 37053 ; 37392 ] , the national charter also reaffirmed Islamic law or sharia as the basic source of legislation and Arab Islamic civilization as the foundation of national identity . |
| 22 | Cleveland County Council has refused the college access to fields originally attached to the school site and pupils have had to walk to a nearby stadium for games lessons . |
| 23 | A newly-divorced mother turned to a professional counsellor for help . |
| 24 | This amounts to a considerable change for NHS managers . |
| 25 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 26 | But whether that amounts to a positive incentive for companies to boost production and revive investment plans is open to doubt . |
| 27 | The Frederick Carl Frieseke nude on the McDonough cover ( lot 24 est. $300–500,000 ) spurned a tough economy with a $360,000 ( £225,000 ) final bid , as did the somewhat more sophisticated Richard Edward Miller ( lot 44 est. $150–250,000 ) going to a private buyer for $200,000 ( £125,000 ) . |
| 28 | On Aug. 16 the government agreed to a UN-brokered amnesty for political exiles , clearing the way for as many as 40,000 exiles to return to the country , thus removing the largest obstacle to direct constitutional negotiations . |
| 29 | It was a poor performance for paintings with Henri Hayden 's ‘ Nature morte à la Guitare ’ ( lot 32 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) , a pretty if unsubstantial cubist composition of 1918 , selling to a Spanish collector for £45,000 ( $77,100 ) . |
| 30 | Hung just above the auctioneer 's head , the canvas dominated the room , selling to a private collector for £950,000 ( $1.52 million , est £600,000–800,000 ) . |