Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Example 2 deals with an approach to playing static double stops over chord changes . |
| 2 | If there is a future beyond social democracy and state socialism , it lies with an alternative to pandering to consumerism and the status quo . |
| 3 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 4 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 5 | Also with an eye to providing user friendly service to the community , the shop stays open until 9 p.m . |
| 6 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 7 | Films like Lady Audley 's Secret ( 1920 ) , the story of a bigamous marriage and a woman 's cold-blooded murder of her devoted husband , were sensational without being plotted or shoot with an eye to involving an audience . |
| 8 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 9 | With an eye to reducing its staff level in France by between 6% and 7% , 800 to 900 people , this year , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has announced it will open a period of voluntary departure between May 1 and June 30 ( CI No 2,118 ) . |
| 10 | With an eye to attracting ‘ bigger name ’ stars onto the show , Verity Lambert saw an opening for Francis as Nero and asked Spooner to write his personality into the scripts . |
| 11 | With an eye to cutting costs , AT&T Microelectronics and Japan 's NEC are jointly to develop basic technologies to make new generations of chips . |
| 12 | These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax . |
| 13 | The image of Tess , vulnerable and innocent despite the shoulderpads , develops as an antidote to scheming female sophistication . |
| 14 | I often use this route as an approach to Shining Clough Rocks by contouring eastwards from the top of the ravine across open moorland , eventually traversing around the headwall of Shining Clough to the impressive crags themselves . |
| 15 | Almost as an off-shoot to lending children good books from their libraries many schools are now acting as agents in selling popular titles . |
| 16 | Noting that NATO members were contributing individually and as an alliance to implementing UN resolutions in the area , they said that they would respond to further requests from the UN . |
| 17 | But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable . |
| 18 | It could lead to more schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , where young offenders get the chance to work on cars , as an alternative to stealing them . |
| 19 | Faced with the prospect of growing structural unemployment and reflecting an analysis that structural unemployment would be a growing feature of industrial society , the work-force at Lucas Aerospace proposed 150 socially useful products which they could design and manufacture as an alternative to facing degradation and suffering in the dole queue . |
| 20 | As an alternative to drawing the phasor diagram , an analytic solution is possible for and in terms of the measurements . |
| 21 | The skilled negotiator , on the other hand , asks questions not only to gain more information and understanding but also as an alternative to disagreeing bluntly and as a means of putting forward suggestions ( ie possible courses of action said as questions . |
| 22 | Although a patent is a very powerful form of intellectual property , it is worth considering whether the invention involved can be kept secret indefinitely as an alternative to seeking a patent . |
| 23 | In the event of another company acquiring control of the Company through a takeover or reconstruction , then ( as an alternative to exercising his option as described in paragraph 6 ) a participant may , if the acquiring company so agrees , release his existing option in return for the grant of an option over shares in the acquiring company ( or a parent thereof ) having the same aggregate option prices and the same aggregate market value as the shares the subject of the options released , the new options being generally exercisable on the same terms as the old . |
| 24 | Industrial Light & Magic , a subsidiary Lucas Digital Ltd , will use it as an alternative to transporting videotape from production facilities in Los Angeles to its post-production facility in San Rafael near San Francisco . |
| 25 | First , the vertical bars can give a somewhat smoother appearance to an otherwise jagged result ; blurring can thus be viewed as an alternative to hanning . |
| 26 | Consequently , adjustment of the negative feedback loop R 1 , R 2 such that the gain before positive feedback just exceeds three yields a close approximation to sinusoidal oscillation at frequency As an alternative to determining the frequency of oscillation through R-C filters as in the Wien bridge oscillator , sinusoidal oscillators can be constructed using series or parallel-resonant L-C filters in conjunction with positive feedback . |
| 27 | As an alternative to refusing planning permission , permission is often granted subject to conditions aimed at controlling any anticipated odour emission , in the same way as conditions are imposed to mitigate nuisance caused by noise emissions . |
| 28 | By a curious paradox , the nuclear lobby has a vested interest in ensuring maximum coal burn in UK power plant as an alternative to stepping up output from the new generation of gas-fired power plant . |
| 29 | This technique is particularly associated with street interviewing for public opinion and market research surveys as an alternative to calling on randomly selected households . |
| 30 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |