Example sentences of "with an [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said aloud , with an edge to her voice : ‘ What are you saying , Gerald ? |
| 2 | They make ‘ modern dance music with an edge to it . |
| 3 | something with an edge to it , you know . |
| 4 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 5 | Its polyphony had to reckon with an element to which Humanism attached enormous importance : the words . |
| 6 | On his visit to the château and lunch in the mess there , he singled out Charles with his black buttons and strange headdress and commiserated with him for having to put up with an attachment to what he called ‘ These rather superior beings ’ . |
| 7 | Firstly , it is a requirement that public notice shall be given that an inspector 's investigation will take place , together with an invitation to anyone who so wishes to write to AIB to draw their attention to any particular aspect considered relevant . |
| 8 | I begin with an apology to my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , the Home Secretary and other hon. Members who spoke before I entered the Chamber . |
| 9 | A refutation of the aspersions he had cast on the personal conduct of the separatists , it concluded with an appeal to her antagonist to ‘ receive admonition , though it be from a woman ’ . |
| 10 | I shouted at him , ‘ Ya , Zebbie the Coalpicker ’ , and he chased me with an axe to our back door . |
| 11 | Commissioners proposed a reduction in their use to 7,300 tonnes from January 1995 with an end to their use by 2014 , or earlier if the production of hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) — the least harmful direct CFC substitute — is considered sufficiently reliable . |
| 12 | It appeared that this setting was providing Suzy with an audience to which she gladly reacted . |
| 13 | Perhaps you could pass your Medau News on to friends with an encouragement to them also to join a class . |
| 14 | The Code may also be of relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 15 | The Code may also have relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 16 | 1 Run on the pavements with an eye to what lurks in gateway and garden . |
| 17 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 18 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 19 | They demanded dramatically , with an eye to its propaganda value , ‘ the break-up of the Poor Law ’ . |
| 20 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 21 | All bookshops with an eye to their image have events nowadays , although the competition is tough going . |
| 22 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |