Example sentences of "[vb -s] to a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subtly rounded corners give it that added touch of class , while the slimmer and lighter size adds to a smoother profile in your pocket . |
| 2 | The art of ‘ growing people ’ lies to a great degree in this stretching process . |
| 3 | In the case of an order made by a county court ( judge or registrar ) or by a registrar of the High Court , the appeal lies to a single judge of the High Court and an appeal from a decision of that judge on such appeal lies , with leave of that judge or the Court of Appeal , to the Court of Appeal ( s 375(2) and r 7.48(2) ) . |
| 4 | To be more specific , justification for the Reed Elsevier merger lies to a significant extent in the enlarged scope that the merged group has for acquisitions . |
| 5 | Their generating capacity , however , still lies to a significant extent in coal-fired generation . |
| 6 | The actions of both the Zionists and the Argentinians were , however instigated , straightforward take-overs of already occupied territory and no amount of alleged ‘ divine ’ involvement will alter the fact that , until all mankind adheres to a single set of rules on sovereignty , territory will belong only to those strong enough to hold it . |
| 7 | There has to a meaningful comparison between the CAA 's charging policy and those of its EC counterparts as we move into an integrated European system . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the industry could be in the hands of a private firm which would have its prices regulated by the state in such a way as to earn what approximates to a normal rate of return on capital employed . |
| 9 | For somewhat like Althusser , Foucault defends a ‘ discursive determinism ’ which looks to a wide range of institutions and academic disciplines as the determinants of conceptions of agency . |
| 10 | ‘ The concept of rape , as a distinct form of criminal misconduct , is well established in popular thought and corresponds to a distinctive form of wrongdoing . ’ |
| 11 | This suggests the ‘ substitutive ’ wealth tax , which can be paid from income leaving wealth intact as opposed to the ‘ additive ’ wealth tax , which necessarily involves the sale of assets and corresponds to a strong aim of reducing wealth inequality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jameson , Harvey , and Lash and Urry argue , albeit with rather different emphases , that the emergence of postmodernism corresponds to a new phase in capitalist development . |
| 14 | On the other hand , when ο is small enough to satisfy and putting the integral becomes In spectral terms the first integral corresponds to a narrow line of infinite amplitude centred on zero frequency and it provides the mean level or direct component of the signal over all time , . |
| 15 | Set B : 16 MidClass-unique sentences , containing only words whose MidClass transcription corresponds to a unique entry in the RM1 lexicon . |
| 16 | With the above transformation , each interval of the coordinate x of length 2 π/; c corresponds to a circular region in the X , Y plane with the origin removed and cut along the line . |
| 17 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 18 | Even at the same time as it publicly commends higher education , seeking out the graduate entrant , spending large sums on publicity to this end , and funding access to degree courses on scholarships , it also holds to a central ethic of distrust of the academic . |
| 19 | Dear merciful heaven , is this what happens to a thwarted man of God ? |
| 20 | After passing a pier and following the water 's edge for a mile , the road climbs to a higher level at a hairpin bend to avoid the private Torridon estate and , amongst trees , reaches a bridge with an adjacent car park . |
| 21 | A road , still the A.894 , leaves Kylesku , climbs to a low pass with the huge mass of Quinag on the right and declines to the shore of Loch Assynt , where it joins the A.837 from Lochinver near the sad lochside ruin of Ardvreck Castle . |
| 22 | All these matters were basically concerned with the maintenance of acceptable standards of safety and it is only fair to acknowledge the fact that the high standard of safety in public transport aircraft today results to a large extent from work done by ICAO . |
| 23 | All it does is answer nothing and demands answers to a whole host of other questions . |
| 24 | The extent to which the ‘ potential ’ revealed by the child 's adult-supported activity is realised depends to a great extent on the way in which the adult interacts with the child . |
| 25 | How far this is possible depends to a great extent on the quality of the instructions accompanying the assessment procedure . |
| 26 | Mr Lee , 62 , is disabled by arthritis and depends to a great extent on an electric scooter to help him get about . |
| 27 | With the development of computerised registers of stolen art work and specialised magazines reporting thefts , one of the conditions to be met is to have consulted such sources ( of course the legal relevance of a register depends to a certain extent on the diligence of the dispossessed owner in reporting the theft ) . |
| 28 | " The European Council is convinced that harmonious development of the Union over the coming years depends to a considerable degree on the strict application to existing and future legislation of the principle of subsidiarity by all the institutions . " |
| 29 | Whether the rias or estuaries persist depends to a considerable extent on their depth and on the amount of alluvium being brought into them by inflowing rivers . |
| 30 | With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes . |