Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 2 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 3 | pehunan refers to a state of extreme vulnerability to dangers of all sorts that results from the frustration of an individual 's wishes ( see Dentan 1968 ; Robarchek 1977b , 1986b ) . |
| 4 | Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment . |
| 5 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 6 | While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class . |
| 7 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 8 | The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality . |
| 9 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 10 | The emphasis on culture and the attendant imagery of the nation composed of symmetrical family units contributes to a metaphysics of Britishness which has acquired racial referents . |
| 11 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 12 | This term refers to a situation of balance — a steady state . |
| 13 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 14 | Readiness refers to an individual 's attitude towards the change , and capability refers to an individual 's capacity to do whatever the change requires of him or her . |
| 15 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 16 | But there are certain conditions to this — provided the credit card belongs to an individual rather than a company and the mount involved is between £100 and £30,000 ( including VAT ) then you should be covered . |
| 17 | But there are certain conditions to this — provided the credit card belongs to an individual rather than a company and the amount involved is between £100 and £30,000 ( including VAT ) then you should be covered . |
| 18 | This chapter turns to an analysis of buying behaviour in industrial goods markets . |
| 19 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 20 | PRIDE of place in Robert Maxwell 's study goes to a photo of him with President George Bush . |
| 21 | On the question of the miners ' strike , one study refers to an episode in South Wales where the owner of a bus company was phoned by strikers who wanted to be taken to Derbyshire . |
| 22 | Here , the action refers to a game which has ceased . |
| 23 | Sometimes , for example , the id refers to a section of the mind , at other times it appears to be alluding to a whole person or agent . |
| 24 | Mind belongs to a genus wholly superior to sense as man is to woman ; unblemished and purged … it is itself the most religious of sacrifices and its whole being is highly pleasing to God . |
| 25 | Reynard retreats to a side tunnel where he squats with his knees up . |
| 26 | The reader should note that the term Grower Champagne used throughout this chapter refers to a récoltant-manipulant , that is to say a grower who sells Champagne under his own name . |
| 27 | Readiness refers to an individual 's attitude towards the change , and capability refers to an individual 's capacity to do whatever the change requires of him or her . |
| 28 | The sensitivity sought at the test point is 20 000 gamma/volt : + 2.5V corresponds to a range of 100,000 gamma so the initial Helmholtz coil current setting should cover this . |
| 29 | Locus M corresponds to a circuit that exhibits real positive feedback at a frequency represented by the point Q but , as the length of OQ is less than unity , oscillation can not occur . |
| 30 | Boat speeds to a record |