Example sentences of "to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turn now to a reinterpretation of Keynes ' economics which emphasises the disequilibrium aspects of the analysis . |
| 2 | This change shows up directly in the uneven spacing of Figure 2 , and corresponds to a change in shape of the nucleus from a sphere to a prolate spheroid , or ‘ rugby ball ’ shape . |
| 3 | In moving to a SmartStream client-server environment , most organisations would have to replace predominantly dumb end-user terminals with more expensive personal computer clients needed to run the Windows front end and other tools as well as buying a slew of different software packages , albeit from a single supplier . |
| 4 | In moving to a SmartStream client/server environment , most organisations would have to replace predominantly dumb end-user terminals with more expensive personal computer clients needed to run the Windows front end and other tools as well as buying a slew of different software packages , albeit from a single supplier . |
| 5 | Since me you 've had Hampshire , Old , Illy , Bairstow , Lamb and Hartley — and 10 bob to a tanner young Carrick will be smoked out within the fortnight , right ? |
| 6 | This Trumping of the souvenir market goes back to a boyhood in Portsmouth and a hobby of collecting shells and making creatures out of them . |
| 7 | John Heath-Stubbs , another Oxford man who may count as the poet of the group , was a lifelong Conservative and High Churchman in reaction to a boyhood spent attending a progressive school in the Isle of |
| 8 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 9 | To hang the quilt , tack a hooked side of Velcro tape to a batten slightly narrower than the quilt and fix to the wall . |
| 10 | AGAINST my finer feelings , I succumbed to a BskyB satellite dish for the finals of the cricket World Cup . |
| 11 | Indifferently as Orrell , who came south in third place and with a match in hand , played , Wasps ' victory by a try , two penalty goals and a dropped goal to a try and two penalty goals was fortuitous . |
| 12 | On the day Nicol fitted in as to the manor born , his electrifying pace very much in evidence , notably in a touchline burst that almost led to a try by Gavin Hastings and in a scorching bit of cover to save a certain try by a scything tackle on Jeremy Guscott : ‘ That first cap game was an amazing experience . |
| 13 | All Japan won by five tries to a try , a drop goal and four penalties after missing all the conversions and two penalties . |
| 14 | If you were expecting to find a neck something akin to a telegraph pole with one side levelled off , you 'd be pleasantly surprised — this is an extremely comfortable and well-shaped laminate of mainly flamed maple . |
| 15 | The most noticeable difference is the move to a two-spanner system of tightening the collet . |
| 16 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 17 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 18 | The US is threatening to add South Korea to a blacklist of countries where illegal copying of software is deemed to be widespread : penalty tariffs would be levied on imports . |
| 19 | Even with University College Cork — whom he captained to a Munster League title in 1985 — and with Dolphin , the man over in Cork Constitution always seemed to hold the edge . |
| 20 | But if the electrons in the inversion layer are connected to a reservoir , as we have asserted to explain the plateaux , one would not expect them to behave like free , independent particles . |
| 21 | The Mechrolab osmometer , shown schematically in figure 9.3 , consists of a solution + solvent cell of volume approximately 1 cm 3 , with the solvent side connected to a reservoir attached to a servo-driven elevator . |
| 22 | I did n't choose to live next to a reservoir … what I want from you is an assurance that your company will compensate everyone affected for all the losses they incur because of the reservoir ( everyone cheers ) . |
| 23 | advisory capacity : a committee is frequently used to offer advice to a decision-maker , ; |
| 24 | Murderer Steven Mynott , 29 , and Phillip Ayres , 25 , fled the day after improvements to a 17ft security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 25 | Thoughts and emotions are energetic , and the human entity can transmit electrical impulses to a vapour , changing the structure of the molecules in the vapour , which then becomes a bank or repository of these human attributes . |
| 26 | Cook published books and pamphlets of advice to women travellers which contained every detail of suitable dress — even to a preference for button , rather than elastic-sided boots , which made ankles swell on lengthy tours of museums , cathedrals and ruins . |
| 27 | A Model to Link Personality Characteristics to a Preference for Science |
| 28 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 29 | Moreover , an inconclusive rule might well lead to a preference for uncertainty , if that can be positively exploited . |
| 30 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |