Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concern of these groups has grown in response to a perceived widening of the gap between cherished moral values and actual day-to-day behaviour . |
| 2 | He has written in reference to a property in Hoo , " This is owned by Mr Henry Golding of Upper Halling who we find is of Langridge Manor " . |
| 3 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 4 | And the Queen has arrived in Cyprus to a row over executions that took place thirty years ago . |
| 5 | The Financial Secretary to the Treasury has announced in answer to a Written Question that while current market conditions continue the Board of Inland Revenue will in certain cases allow a modest extension of the twelve-month period . |
| 6 | In the meantime , the two DTI inspectors , Mr Hugh Aldous and Mr Henry Brooke ( now Mr Justice Brooke ) , have had to listen in silence to a spokesman for the Al Fayeds publicly rubbishing their report . |
| 7 | The second-hand boat market is saturated ; yachts seem to drop in value to a level that lasts for decades , never entirely disappearing from the market . |
| 8 | Colonic diverticular disease is thought to occur in response to a combination of colonic wall weakness and high intraluminal pressures . |
| 9 | Secondary encopresis Children 's bowel control may have relapsed in response to a stressful event like the birth of a baby , a traumatic separation or loss , and this can be seen as a regression to an earlier level of emotional development . |
| 10 | I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva . |
| 11 | ( vi ) Pupils should be asked to write in response to a range of well chosen stories , poems , plays or television programmes . |
| 12 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 13 | Massive speculation immediately arose over his death , particularly in the light of recent allegations that Maxwell and a senior Daily Mirror journalist , Nick Davies , had both had involvement with the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad ; Davies had been dismissed on Oct. 29 on the grounds that he had lied in relation to a meeting which he was said to have had in 1985 with a United States arms dealer . |
| 14 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 15 | The French reinforcements had arrived in answer to a plea from Mary of Guise , who had accompanied her daughter to safety in an island priory on the Lake of Monteith , about fifteen miles west of Stirling . |
| 16 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 17 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 18 | Both are part of the process of informal education and have developed in answer to a single underlying requirement to adapt more closely to a profession and within it , to a specific job . ’ |
| 19 | If you have written in response to an advertisement they may ask you to telephone to arrange a suitable time for the interview . |
| 20 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 21 | In conclusion I wish to emphasise that if this appeal is allowed the House will not thereby have chosen to re-establish in relation to a limited class of offence an inquisitorial method of ascertaining the truth in criminal cases which English law has long since repudiated in favour of an adversarial process . |
| 22 | These aim to foster planning and organising skills , to encourage cooperative working relationships and to enable students to evaluate what they have learned in relation to a residential experience in Europe . |
| 23 | Erm , there is one slight technical problem which I have to overcome in relation to a computer terminal but I 'll erm face that problem at if and when that situation develops . |