Example sentences of "[noun] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 2 | Shelley sold tender love songs to an audience bent on destruction and revenge . |
| 3 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 4 | Four members of the FMLN high command ( Jovel , Villalobos , Shafick Jorge Handal and Eduardo Sancho ) had returned from exile to an emotional welcome at San Salvador airport on Jan. 31 , accompanied by leading members of Latin American political parties including the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) of Mexico . |
| 5 | The ICE Conditions of Contract entitle the contractor to an extension of time if any of a number of specified events delays the works . |
| 6 | However , events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs . |
| 7 | How is it that eyes or mouths or the most fleeting expression , the merest muscular twitch , rise unbidden to an otherwise fully occupied mind ? |
| 8 | The process is one of envisioning on paper and then transferring the result to an Apple Macintosh computer system . |
| 9 | The reader may think that the result is already known , but all too often different populations behave in different ways so that although there may be an expected result to an investigation it will not be a foregone conclusion . |
| 10 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 11 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 12 | If there was a " consumer revolution " in eighteenth-century England , it must have owed a very great deal to an improvement in road transport which , according to one writer , allowed " our very carriages to travel with almost winged expedition " . |
| 13 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 14 | What is lacking , however , is the political will in government to bring torture to an end . |
| 15 | The crush was eased by moving some fans to an empty , condemned section of the ground . |
| 16 | The crush was eased by moving some fans to an empty , condemned section of the ground . |
| 17 | The danger of elevating the concept of partnership to an ideal relationship , laboriously defined and exclusively framed , is a real one . |
| 18 | Any partner 's death will bring the partnership to an end . |
| 19 | Pc Court had threatened to take the force to an industrial tribunal last year alleging sexual discrimination in a case supported by the Police Federation , but Mr Newing agreed she had been disadvantaged after the arbitration service ACAS was brought in . |
| 20 | During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible . |
| 21 | A strike , declared on October 25th , has pushed losses to an estimated $1m a week . |
| 22 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 23 | It was crucial for successful demand management that central government generated or contained investment to an appropriate level . |
| 24 | It is for the House itself , in the final analysis , to determine whether one can take one 's place , and , if issue were joined ( as is occasionally the case where succession to an hereditary peerage is contested or doubtful ) the House would decide on the basis of a report received from its Committee of Privileges . |
| 25 | A reversion was the grant of the right of succession to an office , made during the lifetime and tenancy of an existing holder . |
| 26 | In 1659 Martin received the survivance ( legal succession to an office , nominated before the death of the existing holder ) of his father 's position at the court of Louis XIV of ‘ hautbois et musette du roy dans sa grande Ecurie ’ . |
| 27 | The switch to an ecu link left basket players owing billions of dollars , with no predictable relationship between the krona and the dollar . |
| 28 | It may be that the switch to an alternative formula happened to coincide with a spontaneous recovery . |
| 29 | This rebuff led to a shift in Athenian domestic policies — the ostracism of Kimon — and to a switch to an audaciously anti-Spartan stance in foreign affairs — alliances with Argos and Thessaly and the acceptance of the adhesion of Megara . |
| 30 | The leak took place in a " hot cell " , used for treating highly radioactive waste , during a switch to an emergency power system while the main power was shut down during construction work . |