Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only coal could have fuelled the growth of towns and allowed them to concentrate labour to such a degree , and in addition the canals brought building materials and food supplies . |
| 2 | He tried to give comfort but it was difficult to find words after such a bizarre accident , except to explain what had happened . |
| 3 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Its aim was to preserve the unity of France , to arrange matters in such a way that , in due course ( and , in view of the king 's health , not before too long ) a new dynasty might assume the crown of France . |
| 5 | Its philosophy is to treat sites in such a way that wildlife is encouraged back into the city . |
| 6 | Foals who have learnt to evade bot-flies in such a way , will continue to do so as adult horses if they have access to shelter . |
| 7 | Accordingly , teachers need to choose books in such a way that all pupils have the opportunity to learn how to understand and enjoy works that make manageable but increasing demands upon them . |
| 8 | Ireby is very pleasant , with a stream running alongside its only street , and the possibility of afternoon tea , but its attractions are not sufficient to engage attention for half a day . |
| 9 | Suppose it happened to bias meiosis in such a way that it , the mutant gene itself , was more likely than its allelic partner to end up in the egg . |
| 10 | Their business is to propound ideas in such a way that their claimed transfer value is made explicit for the consideration and possible operationalization by the teacher . |
| 11 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 12 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |
| 13 | It will feel like an eternity , but you will have learned to handle silence for half a minute . |
| 14 | Assuming the investor does decide to remain within the equity market then the second implication of MPT is that the process of diversification is essentially an effort to combine shares in such a way as to eradicate non-market risk . |
| 15 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 16 | These include requiring a Court before giving a custodial sentence to consider a report by the probation service and to give reasons for such a sentence , except for the most serious offences ; also to satisfy itself that the offence was serious enough to justify the use of custody . |
| 17 | At least one of them , Hector ‘ Pochola ’ Silva ( who currently trains the Buenos Aires selection ) , has openly refused to form part of such a committee and thinks all the others should do likewise . |
| 18 | Marigold , his wife , he would not of course have permitted to give womb-room to such a foreign body or to take the pill or consider any so-called reversible tube-tyings . |
| 19 | What sort of men ( women , I suspect , having nothing to do with it ) sought to worship God with such a display of blatant vulgarity ? |
| 20 | There was no reasonable mechanism in the steady state theory to generate microwaves with such a spectrum . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'd wanted to do music for such a long time . |
| 22 | In a stark and poignant phrase , he refers to God as the belly of the starving man and claims that to give food to such a man is to give a gift to God . |
| 23 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 24 | She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it . |
| 25 | You may not want to risk breeding from such a mare , especially if she is getting on in years . |
| 26 | In July the prime minister of Belgium and a committed Europeanist , Paul-Henri Spaak , stated that he supported a European Assembly and announced that he had asked the European Movement to consider plans for such a body . |
| 27 | Without always being as explicit as writers like Lippmann , it seemed that most of them were content to redefine democracy in such a way as to eliminate its traditional popular participatory aspirations . |
| 28 | This means that even if the government , the TUC and CBI were able to agree on a particular course of development of the national economy ‘ the state and the social partners alike are unable to enforce compliance with such a plan at the micro-level ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 29 | Frier and floor cleaners : These are examples of the tendency of some suppliers to name products in such a way that their application is restricted and an unnecessary number of products is stocked . |
| 30 | It will clearly seek to control behaviour in such a way as to attempt to ensure that the publicity is good . |