Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | War-time restriction on milk-chocolate seemed to have given confectionery manufacturers a fanatical devotion to the stuff . |
| 2 | In large organizations a personal visit to meetings not directly under your control may be impractical . |
| 3 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 4 | ( 10 ) Where control ( ie 30 per cent or more ) of a company is acquired by a person or his concert parties a general offer to all other shareholders is required ( and this includes the situation where control is consolidated ) . |
| 5 | Heseltine had to find a subsidy to stop the coal revolt by Tory backbenchers a short-term subsidy to the coal industry . |
| 6 | Japan has not found the fluctuations of the yen against the dollar and European currencies a serious barrier to its ability to increase exports . |
| 7 | When Mr. Leitch established his public house in the village of Ardersier , so conveniently placed to catch the military traffic from Fort George , he wisely retained his seat in the council of the royal burgh of Nairn , and for a valuable parliamentary elector a mere transfer to the desired post was very little for a member of parliament to arrange . |
| 8 | Dexter found his brevity a refreshing contrast to the self-conscious talkativeness of most of the people who worked at TV London . |
| 9 | The rest of the objects were more in keeping with the plastic table mats than with the linen cloth , for Mrs Maugham was in practice a sworn friend to the synthetic ; to her , utility was a prime virtue . |
| 10 | How often is their only guidance a vague wish to " find out " about something , be it dinosaurs , railways or whatever ? |
| 11 | As James Flynn says , this was " in most important respects a faithful return to the statute of 1835 " , which sounds like a dubious compliment until one remembers that Nicholas I 's supposedly restrictive statute on universities actually preserved most of the enlightened principles of the statute of 1804 . |
| 12 | North said he would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland or a ride on the space shuttle ; George Cave , the interpreter , offered to send the Second Channel to Miami Beach . |
| 13 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |
| 14 | Volatility in aid flows is notoriously difficult from the recipient 's point of view , and the US Congress has made American aid a dangerously-poisoned chalice to the recipients . |
| 15 | More recently local trade unionists and many of the members of our organization in Easington decided that to commemorate the , the occasion , they would work to get a new trade union banner for the Easington Trade Union Council and that 's the example and that 's the reward of their particular work a magnificent tribute to those pit men that died eighty one years ago , er forty two years ago . |
| 16 | And the former head of the Hitler Youth , Baldur von Schirach , who retained even at Nuremberg a naïve attachment to Hitler , indicated in his memoirs the effect on Hitler himself of the constant toadying and sycophancy which surrounded him , shielding him from rational criticism or genuine debate , and bolstering his increasing detachment from reality . |
| 17 | In summary , Collins have pulled out of participation in the National Corpus Project and Longman have given a commitment to participate in the National Corpus Project , which leaves us having submitted a proposal a revised proposal to the D T I , erm fully documenting Longman 's contribution , erm but leaving O U P's role and financial contribution to the project open in anticipation that there is likely to be some rearrangements amongst the industrial partners , that is there may be a reallocation of funding between Longman and O U P and maybe the addition of new partners erm or it may just stay as it is erm . |
| 18 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 19 | Significantly , the category they won reflects a most competitive area in the market namely ‘ domestic tufted , selling at less than £10 a square yard to the trade . ’ |
| 20 | These companies have given Wehmiller a useful exposure to the US , where demand has been buoyant . |
| 21 | The ambiguities and contradictions in Spencer 's theory gradually became apparent and , as Hawthorn comments : ‘ Towards the end of the century he became in England a living monument to vanished assumptions . ’ |
| 22 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 23 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 24 | The agreement includes granting IBM a non-exclusive licence to the Nomadic Computing Environment . |
| 25 | Has Manuel a contractual claim to any wages instead of working his notice period ? |
| 26 | Conversation had now become difficult , and Diane still had n't given Pete a definite answer to his question . |
| 27 | The white phosphorus matches were dangerous and their manufacture a serious danger to health . |
| 28 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 29 | Money matters a great deal to the elderly . |
| 30 | You should put yourself first and not care or be possessive about your children , or about making your husband the breadwinner happy , or making the home a nice place to be . ’ ’ |