Example sentences of "to an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of her hobbies was anaesthetics , and she subscribed to an anaesthetists ' journal in which she had seen an advertisement for a chemist who outfitted doctors ' waiting-rooms and surgeries . |
| 2 | A Champs Elysée corridor led us to an escalator and the plush basement waiting room of the cancer clinic . |
| 3 | After a hard day chasing rabbits and catching sticks , what better way to relax than by treating yourself to an aromatherapy massage . |
| 4 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 5 | The washers were made by early afternoon and a site manager drove with them in his car to an RAF service depot in southern England . |
| 6 | MADCAP Mick Grimmer plans to eat thirty cloves of garlic and breathe on anyone who refuses to give to an RAF charity at Mansfield , Notts . |
| 7 | The opportunity arose late in 1988 when the MoD had an urgent need for an RB211 engine — of a specific configuration — for fitting to an RAF transport . |
| 8 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
| 9 | Fears of an outbreak of legionnaires disease at one of the region 's biggest hospitals has led to patients being transferred to an RAF hospital for surgery . |
| 10 | Returning to an RAF airfield in Little Horwood it clipped a tree and lost control . |
| 11 | Returning to an RAF airfield in Little Horwood it clipped a tree and lost control . |
| 12 | For completeness , the remainder of this chapter is devoted to an A to Z list of plumbing tools , materials and equipment that you are likely to need for the majority of jobs around the house . |
| 13 | Her mouth dry with urgency , she ran up to an ambulanceman , shouting in Spanish , ‘ Can I help ? |
| 14 | A bond is normally issued by a bank to an importer guaranteeing the exporter 's compliance with his contractual obligations , otherwise the importer must be indemnified for a stated amount . |
| 15 | The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer . |
| 16 | The denial , to the general public , of open access to the countryside led to an intensification of the fifty-year struggle for legislative changes culminating in the mass trespasses of the early 1930s . |
| 17 | To an Elf or a Dwarf , they seem to be having a violent argument . |
| 18 | But to an Elf people desperate for stability , shocked to the very core by their sundering with their kin of Naggaroth , he promised a familiar hand at the tiller . |
| 19 | Now it speeds up to an eyeblink . |
| 20 | ‘ Could be anything from an Aborigine to an Atoguin . |
| 21 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 22 | Consider , for example , the following extracts from recorded conversations , where the responses to an utterance indicate that for participants the utterance carried the implications ( or something like them ) indicated in brackets : ( 25 ) A : I could eat the whole of that cake [ implication : " I compliment you on the cake " ] B : Oh thanks ( 26 ) A : Do you have coffee to go ? [ implication : " Sell me coffee to go if you can " ] B : Cream and sugar ? ( ( starts to pour ) ) ( 27 ) B : Hi John A : How 're you doing ? |
| 23 | It was rooted in a cast of mind raised to an ethic in the professions . |
| 24 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 25 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 26 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 27 | There was no immediate threat but , even to an idiot , it was obvious SHe was virtually a prisoner in Club Eleusis now . |
| 28 | I listened to a woman executive on the radio the other morning explaining as to an idiot audience that the abolition of the wages councils was long overdue since workers could n't keep on pricing themselves out of the labour market . |
| 29 | He finally succumbed to an uppercut and a big right in the 11th , yet rose to pursue a clearly lost cause until the end , the final bell being greeted with a standing ovation . |
| 30 | Needing no alibis , however , though it comes close to an exploitation concept , is the hard-driving Australian movie Shame ( Vestron ) , with a dynamic central performance by Deborra-Lee Furness as the city woman caught up in Outback violence . |