Example sentences of "[noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papyrus enabled the ancients to spread their religion to a wider audience . |
| 2 | For each of us , keeping our risks to a minimum is dependent on what we do and not how we identify ourselves . |
| 3 | They may , of course , be wrong , and will then lose money , but market research is supposed to reduce the financial risks to a minimum . |
| 4 | Edward Hudson of Country Life enlisted her services in making that periodical the exponent of culture and the arts to a wide public . |
| 5 | The Scrutiny Committee ( the Joint Select Committee on Statutory Instruments ) , latest in a line of successors to a House of Commons select committee first appointed in 1944 , is a committee of 14 ( 7 MPs and 7 peers ) , any 2 of whom constitute a quorum . |
| 6 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 7 | A Model to Link Personality Characteristics to a Preference for Science |
| 8 | These figures were put in perspective by a report from Lowell Observatory in Arizona to a meeting , in Boston . |
| 9 | Very simply by giving the remedy to a group of healthy people in a carefully controlled and closely monitored fashion . |
| 10 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 11 | The common law provided a form of self-help remedy to a person harmed by straying livestock by way of distress damage feasant . |
| 12 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 13 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 14 | The development of Mosley 's economic ideas in the 1920s showed a gradual transition from a socialist to a nationalist Perspective . |
| 15 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 16 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 17 | Perhaps there is a hidden agenda here — a desire for mainstream success in America , a need to introduce old songs to a new audience , a bid for Radio 2 playlisting — but I doubt it . |
| 18 | They sang Jesus songs to a guitar and sought converts . |
| 19 | Finally , the investigators will seek to enhance the utility of the approach by eliciting the reactions of a group of interested scientists and policymakers to a range of different methods for presenting co-word findings . |
| 20 | SARAH MADDOCK turned in a five star show to help the Liverpool and District Association to a comfortable win in the north west inter-association age group competition at Everton Park . |
| 21 | The inquiry follows objections by Teesdale District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way sub-committee to allow the plan . |
| 22 | The inquiry was prompted by objections from Teesside District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way subcommittee to allow the diversion . |
| 23 | HP envisages an on-site upgrade path that requires only a processor swap going , for example , from a 40 to a 50 and a chassis upgrade going from , an F to a G. The F class which HP has poised against Sun reportedly starts at 36 tpsA ; the next performance point is 61 tpcA , available as an F or H , then 88 TPS , followed by 110 tpsA topping out at 184 tpsA . |
| 24 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 25 | Lyons ( 1977a : 669 ) inclines to a view that , since place-deictic terms like this and that can be used in a temporal sense ( especially to refer to proximal and distal parts of an unfolding discourse ) , place deixis is more fundamental than time deixis . |
| 26 | And the mining communities , for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army , are disappearing . |
| 27 | ‘ To keep the break-ins to a minimum , I suppose , ’ said Hatchard drily . |
| 28 | This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration . |
| 29 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 30 | If you have been very lucky and efficient you may have reduced the area stock to a very low level . |