Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 2 | In her article on British arts funding ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , March 1992 , pp.1 2 ) Giulia Ajmone Marsan drew attention to a threat from a Tory Minister for Arts to the Arts Council 's freedom from political control . |
| 3 | Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate . |
| 4 | They doubted if the public would respond to a call for a second general strike over what many would see as only the shooting of one man in a period of frequent shootings and violence . |
| 5 | In a fortnight 's time , when the company replies to a call for a substantial increase in pay and a reduction in the working week , John Hougham , personnel director , will probably throw that philosophy back at him . |
| 6 | Differences over pay bargaining in manufacturing industries between the three main trade union confederations and Confindustria , the body which represented private-sector employers , led to a call for a general strike to be held on July 11 , 1990 , just after the completion of the World Cup football competition . |
| 7 | The officer was the passenger in a Rover patrol car travelling at 70mph while responding to a call about a stolen Nissan 200 ZX Turbo being driven fast and erratically in Sunderland late on Wednesday . |
| 8 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 9 | A barn owl is n't strong enough to hold tight to a glove in a strong wind . |
| 10 | Where a loan or advance is made to a participator in a close company , the tax charged will be due without assessment 14 days after the end of the accounting period . |
| 11 | He pointed to a board with a broken nose . |
| 12 | For example , cutting a strong onion can produce runny nose , sore throat and stinging eyes , so a homoeopathic remedy made from onion is given to a patient with a cold and bad throat . |
| 13 | The allegation was that a doctor had been negligent in administering electro-convulsive therapy to a patient without a relaxant drug or restraining convulsive movements . |
| 14 | That 's as near as you 'll get to a guarantee of a good holiday . |
| 15 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |
| 16 | Path a-b represents the approach to a problem via a conventional , logical , pattern of thought without attempting to introduce new and untested ideas . |
| 17 | Traffic was brought to a standstill on a busy stretch of the M-one today after cars and lorries became stuck in tar . |
| 18 | He brought the proceedings to a standstill with a stinging rebuke to the nations of the world and an emotional appeal for help to stop ‘ genocide ’ in the besieged town . |
| 19 | Mounting discontent came to a head over a professional insurance scheme which Fimbra attempted to force on all its members . |
| 20 | it came to a head in a charred violet point … |
| 21 | Parents should be held to some degree , not necessarily to a tune of a thousand pound , but they should be made in some way , to be responsible for their |
| 22 | er , yes my Lord , there 's the prior point that we er , we would submit as indicated in the skeleton of the eleventh of November that on its true construction , erm the central fund byelaw , article ten in particular er gives rise to a payment of a specified sum , ascertain sum , payable forthwith on demand , it 's rather like the example your Lordship gave of the Barclaycard or the cheque , if my learned friend is right |
| 23 | Schools , and especially primary schools , have always been regarded as essential to a concept of a complete community , and many schools have taken their responsibilities and opportunities in this regard very seriously . |
| 24 | These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject . |
| 25 | And we can not explain more complex needs by appealing to a concept of a universal individual such as homo oeconomicus . |
| 26 | We now consider the ‘ costs ’ to a society of a moderate inflation rate . |
| 27 | There are two possible ways in which the bells can be arranged so that someone arriving at the door can signal their arrival to a person in a specific apartment . |
| 28 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 29 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 30 | It stands to reason that a firm would find difficulty selling advanced microelectronic machinery to a culture with a primitive agriculturally-based economy . |