Example sentences of "[vb base] a [adj] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | The cafés provide a nice easy introduction to the delights and puzzles of Japan . |
2 | It is worthwhile briefly examining Lukacs 's ideas on socialist realism at this juncture since they not only provide a constructive critical alternative to the mindless ideological stance adopted by Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky , but also broaden the global conceptual framework within which to examine Nizan 's communist novels . |
3 | Although local NGOs provide a useful complementary service to the NHS , it will be necessarily piecemeal . |
4 | In the final movement simple violin accompaniment , the minor mode and plain harmonies one key other than the tonic is once fleetingly touched upon provide a fitting musical parallel to Dido 's end ( Récitatif D minor ) . |
5 | For your free copy please send a stamped addressed label to Valerie Wenham , Adviser on Facilities for Disabled Visitors , Dept . |
6 | For details please send a stamped addressed envelope to : |
7 | For full details of locations and dates , please send a stamped addressed envelope to Week of Christmas Walks , The National Trust , London . |
8 | If you send a stamped addressed envelope to The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique ( STAT ) , they will send you a list of teachers in your area . |
9 | Send a stamped addressed envelope to or ring the following for further details and a brochure : Edwardiana , Unit 1 , 41 Church Road , Bexleyheath , Kent DA7 4DD or Kiss ‘ n ’ Cuddle , Handels Smithy , High Street , Edgware , Middlesex . |
10 | Send a Stamped addressed envelope to the |
11 | Please send a stamped addressed envelope to the Alumni Office for further details . |
12 | Send a formatted blank disk to : Driver Request , Canon ( UK ) Ltd , . |
13 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
14 | First of all , you fit a T-shaped two-way adaptor to the card . |
15 | The contorted postures provide an eloquent visual commentary to the simultaneously projected ‘ real life ’ imagery ; her video and installation work include fragile , barely existing images ( negative or miniature projections ) of swinging figures , or herself freefalling from a 200 foot crane , continually repeated , as if caught in a time-loop of seemingly endless motion . |
16 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
17 | Today we hold a short welcome meeting to fully explain the routes , and to familiarise you with your steed ! |
18 | The author states that " the church-men hold an absolute passive obedience to be the duty of the subjects " , though he concluded that " at the same time they allow , that in cases where the ruin of the nation must otherwise ensure , the necessity dispenses with the duty , and self-preservation takes place before any other law " . |
19 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
20 | Drop a stamped addressed envelope to Teddy and a sponsorship form will come winging its way back — help out a good cause with an original idea . |
21 | The new items adopt a structured problem-based approach to the many different marital difficulties that people face , and information on the cultural and religious framework , which may affect options open to ethnic minority clients , has been included for the first time . |
22 | When it 's growing wild and bold , these flowers give a spangled mauve colour to a field . |
23 | As someone who has championed the cause of renewable energy since the mid-1970s , I give a warm personal welcome to my hon. Friend 's statement , which I believe to be in exactly the right direction . |
24 | Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) . |
25 | Therefore , to assume a sort of ( even internal ) scientific realism about the results of Lakoff and Johnson 's cognitive theory , to claim to have discovered truths about mind and language which give a special explanatory validity to the interpretation of King Lear , is to impose one view of linguistics , one view of science , and one view of how a literary text is to be interpreted on the text . |
26 | Some patients with candidiasis give a positive skin-prick test to Candida antigens , showing that they have indeed developed an allergic reaction to them . |
27 | The soft tones of the colour range always produce a successful design and the joy of using all the silvery tones is that they last so well In many cases , the silver-grey effect is created by the very small hairs on the underside of the flower or leaf , which catch the light and give a lovely overall tone to the picture . |
28 | Blending strokes with a soft round brush will compress the paint down into the canvas , give a smooth static finish to the surface and automatically quieten and control the mood . |
29 | These cells give a large excitatory response to the onset of a small spot of one wavelength shone on to their receptive field centres and a much smaller response to a much larger spot . |
30 | Her electioneering methods will , I presume , give a whole new meaning to that old political maxim , ’ There is no such thing as a safe seat . ’ |