Example sentences of "with an [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 They make ‘ modern dance music with an edge to it .
2 She said aloud , with an edge to her voice : ‘ What are you saying , Gerald ?
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 This chapter is primarily concerned with an approach to the care of overdose patients which is brief and focused on helping the patient to solve his own problems .
6 Example 2 deals with an approach to playing static double stops over chord changes .
7 He contrasts this with an approach to education said to characterize ‘ effective schools ’ and argues that this is undermined when schools are preoccupied with removing troublesome pupils .
8 Oz , with its use of colour , could somehow , at the time , get away with an approach to sexuality which was condemned in retrospect — and occasionally then — but which somehow retained an innocence .
9 After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre .
10 As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable .
11 Its polyphony had to reckon with an element to which Humanism attached enormous importance : the words .
12 Working for patients proposes that regions , and eventually districts , will be funded on a weighted per capita basis ( with an allowance to the Thames regions for higher prices in London ) .
13 Nevertheless Mr Hsein-Hsu 's permit was renewed with an increase to 25,000 pups and 5,768 adult bulls .
14 The wide river narrowed abruptly with a notice on our left saying DANGER in huge letters , and a smaller notice saying LOCK with an arrow to the right .
15 His most important work , St Peter 's Leeds ( 1837–41 ) , a rebuilding of the town 's old parish church , was one of the key ecclesiastical projects of the 1830s , a landmark in both the scholarly revival of the Gothic style and the High Church revival of Anglican Christianity , in which an accurate use of Perpendicular Gothic detail was combined with an approximation to a medieval plan-form , complete with a fully developed chancel .
16 Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa .
17 Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past .
18 They were suspended for not complying with an instruction to be transferred from their normal centres to handle emergency calls at the Waterloo control centre , said the London Ambulance Service .
19 Here the sequence begins with an instruction to a typical Californian housewife ( typical in all but name , that is ) , Oedipa Maas , to execute the will of a dead tycoon .
20 Many feminists adopt more variable programmes , which combine analysis of discourses , with an address to the unconscious .
21 Following a tour of Lithuania visiting factories and farms , Gorbachev ended his visit on Jan. 13 with an address to CPL activists in Vilnius .
22 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 ’ .
23 Yet he is now more American than Australian , living in Hobe Sound , Florida , with an attachment to Grand Cypress in Orlando .
24 But while the Europeans were prepared to go along with an ultimatum to the Serbs that threatened bombing if there were more belligerency , they would not countenance lifting the arms embargo , which they believe would do more harm than good .
25 The Press first used computer methods to assist typesetting in 1970 , beginning with An Index to the Indo Aryan Language produced from an IBM computer in London University and using the Photon Lumizip 901 typesetter of Computaprint Limited .
26 In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme :
27 The fact that families when one woman in six retires with an entitlement to a full basic pension , based on her own level of payments , speaks volumes .
28 Once you have got a favourable response , you follow through with an invitation to a social event .
29 Potentially suitable suppliers are approached at this stage with an invitation to be considered for a supply relationship .
30 Couples locked himself away in his Florida home after breaking Europe 's five-year grip on the Masters , refusing to answer the telephone even when President Bush called with an invitation to dinner at the White House .
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