Example sentences of "to [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , my goodness , does n't a coming bream session give you something to look forward to during an otherwise boring type of day ! |
| 2 | ‘ That ought to worth a knighthood , ’ Jim from the Royal Hospital School mutters into his Adnams . |
| 3 | Once through the gorge you are into the valley of Clapdale with its tourist trappings of grottoes , nature trails and Ingleborough Cave which Walter White , in his 1858 book , A Month in Yorkshire , referred to as a ‘ Glittering Fairy Palace ’ . |
| 4 | A high-level approach , sometimes referred to as a drawing description or vector file , or ‘ meta file ’ ; |
| 5 | The most favoured option is to pick a well-known name and either anthologise him or produce what is now grandly referred to as a biodrama . |
| 6 | The first option is referred to as a world-wide contract , and the second is known as a territory-by-territory contract . |
| 7 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 8 | What joy to be referred to as a mophead ! |
| 9 | There are voices you turn to as a friend , and you do n't just turn your back on your friends if they go off the rails . |
| 10 | Certainly the most successful of the ‘ modern ’ Bries has been Cambozola , a German cheese referred to as a blue Brie . |
| 11 | This type of defect is referred to as a ‘ luminescence centre ’ . |
| 12 | The signal is plotted as the temperature of the sample is increased , up to 500°C typically , and the output is referred to as a glow curve ( fig. 7.10 ) . |
| 13 | It is still referred to as a tournament rather than a championship , which reflects a kind of inverted snobbery . |
| 14 | In no other country in the EC is a pharmacist referred to as a chemist . |
| 15 | The contract of carriage by road shall be confirmed by a consignment note , sometimes referred to as a waybill . |
| 16 | Often referred to as a means by which a nation , or even the world , can become a community , it makes possible the transmitting of messages from a small group of people to a vast number . |
| 17 | The top personnel in these enterprises have been referred to as a state bourgeoisie. we can , therefore , identify three fractions : domestic capitalists ; managers of multinationals and top administrators of public enterprises . |
| 18 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |
| 19 | There is considerable confusion about the use of the distaff , sometimes referred to as a Rock , probably because of the old terms ‘ Distaff and Spear ’ sides of the family . |
| 20 | They are led to as a rule by a country lane with a straggling row of trees ; the longer it is the more profound and lasting is the silence which embraces the pilgrim who comes to the station to wait … |
| 21 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 22 | Often referred to as a ‘ lumbar punch ’ , which sounds like a particularly nasty boxing foul , it is commonly thought to paralyse from the waist down those few lucky enough to survive the procedure , or at least render them impotent and incapable of sexual intercourse . |
| 23 | And one of the prime factors most often pointed to as a cause has been the rise of the new media of communication and entertainment , particular emphasis being placed on the deleterious effects of television . |
| 24 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 25 | This is often referred to as a consideration of the patient 's future ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 26 | He needed the sort of chemist 's he had gone to as a child . |
| 27 | Sometimes referred to as a ‘ scissors gybe ’ . |
| 28 | Those in which the form of words used are based on the definition of a ‘ light industrial ’ use , i.e. a Class III use under the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 , usually referred to as a ‘ no nuisance clause ’ , being imposed to protect the amenity of the locality , and |
| 29 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
| 30 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |