Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fashion designers Jean and Martin Pallant and Harpers & Queen cordially invite readers to a special preview of their autumn collection at their fabulous shop in the Pantechnicon building , 19a Motcomb Street , London SW1 . |
| 2 | Certainly , such peace as prevailed owed an immense amount to Jones 's personal stature in the movement , as one of the old-style union leaders who had , nevertheless , taken an outward-looking and creative role in trying to relate union demands to a wider pattern of economic stability and also , incidentally , the wellbeing of a Labour government . |
| 3 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 4 | Thus , he tends to argue in a fairly straightforward way from the similarity of behaviour in human beings and animals to a mutual possession of the same ‘ concepts ’ . |
| 5 | In the hills men and women were combing and washing and polishing chosen animals to a Vogue-like perfection of appearance , winners determined to hold their titles , aspirants determined to displace them . |
| 6 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 7 | We were able to offer solutions to a wide variety of problems from decontaminating nuclear facilities to assessing the safety of new rail links . |
| 8 | But the solutions posed by these films are strictly on the level of fantasy ( for most of us ) , and moreover are individual solutions to a particular set of circumstances . |
| 9 | City centre pollution could be cut significantly thanks to a new type of bus . |
| 10 | Now , thanks to a new generation of gospel singers , you can indulge your tastes for pop music without having your values corrupted and your families fragmented . |
| 11 | BP 's extended-reach drilling programme at Wytch Farm in Dorset is proceeding with improved accuracy thanks to a new kind of technique that predicts reservoir quality as the well is being drilled . |
| 12 | Insomnia , jet lag , bleary-eyed shift workers and bleak winter moods could all be a thing of the past thanks to a tiny dose of meltonin , dubbed the ‘ Dracula ’ hormone . |
| 13 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 14 | Quality awareness among operators improved , thanks to a better flow of information . |
| 15 | The irony was that many would soon end up owner-occupied thanks to a central part of Thatcherism — the right to buy scheme . |
| 16 | Thanks to a growing body of business writers , executives are only too aware that , like it or not , they have the dubious privilege of being alive during a once in 200 years revolution that is transforming the business world . |
| 17 | RMC , the ready-mix concrete and aggregates group , is definitely one of the adults , keeping its balance thanks to a sensible policy of international diversification . |
| 18 | Nor is there any question of his being elected thanks to a miscellaneous accumulation of votes of lower than first preference : all the votes are clear-cut votes of first and only preference . |
| 19 | The second half was all Albion … they went two-one up just after the break thanks to a fine piece of striking from Kevin Donovan |
| 20 | McNealy also said that the hard-won 45MHz and 50MHz versions of the Viking , also known as SuperSparc , would be abundant by the end of the second quarter , thanks to a third iteration of the masks . |
| 21 | McNealy also said the hard-won 45MHz and 50MHz versions of the Viking , aka SuperSparc , would be abundant by the end of the second quarter thanks to a third iteration of the masks . |
| 22 | CONGRATULATIONS to our new Assistant Editor Richard Bath , who ( thanks to a large slice of beginner 's luck ! ) kept a clean sheet in his World Cup predictions in the October preview issue . |
| 23 | The Sandinistas survived the Contra war thanks to a free lifeline of Soviet oil . |
| 24 | Success came quickly , thanks to a happy mixture of talent , determination , enterprise and luck . |
| 25 | Once more we were spared the fate of drawing a wrong conclusion thanks to a single coin of Valens dated to AD 375 . |
| 26 | OSHKOSH 92 had to be seen to be believed , it was everything that any aviation enthusiast could ever hope for , a unique mix of every form of aviation on this planet , from a USAF KC–135 that performed fly-bys to the Experimental Aircraft Association 's Ryan NYP monoplane Spirit of St Louis replica , from a privately owned NDN–1T Firecracker N2157C ( owned by Richard Slaney from Eugene , Oregon ) to a 1935 built Waco YMF–5 C–GIBF , and from the latest homebuild designs to a staggering collection of warbirds . |
| 27 | Three areas of made ground were present on the line of the road , the most significant of these three being the backfilled quarry area at Straiton which resulted from the extraction of the limestone by opencast methods to a maximum depth of 16 metres . |
| 28 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |
| 29 | Skanform panels enable refurbishment of existing clean environments to a high standard of quality and hygiene without expensive and complicated installation procedures , while allowing investment in long term reliability and cost effectiveness . |
| 30 | Low values have been attributed by some authors to a preclinical effect of the tumour , others have shown that the lowered values predate the detection of cancer by at east five years . |