Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , closure of a feature to tourism for conservation purposes is undesirable , because it defeats the purpose of conservation which is its preservation for future generations . |
| 2 | This will not be as a result of a concession to terrorism . |
| 3 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 4 | Confirmation of a tour to South Africa and moves towards a Southern Hemisphere Five Nations — it 's all happening Down Under , as GREG CAMPBELL discovered . |
| 5 | She reviews her own changing perceptions in the light of a commitment to equality of opportunity for all learners . |
| 6 | But there has also been a wider questioning of the whole conception of a transition to socialism . |
| 7 | For example , Starbuck ( 1982 ) states that rarely is there a neat sequence of events through from recognition of a problem to definition of the problem , generating possible actions , selection of the appropriate option and implementation . |
| 8 | First , suppose the contractual entitlement of a mortgagee to costs charges and expenses does not correspond either to the standard basis of taxation set out in rule 12(1) or to the indemnity basis of taxation set out in rule 12(2) . |
| 9 | Basildon District Council appealed to the Transport Tribunal against the grant of a licence to Rees Haulage on the basis that the proposed operating centre was unsuitable on environmental grounds . |
| 10 | At our first meeting I was nervous , remembering the glacial formality of a visit to Berenson at I Tatti , but they order things differently in the rue de Lille . |
| 11 | For Kaelin the initial resistance of a work to analysis , along with the way in which this gives way to a richer post-analytic experience , can also be used as a means of assessing its value . |
| 12 | The installation of these CFC-free units is just part of a drive to phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants at head office |
| 13 | This might occur if general practices encouraged a partner with a special interest in diabetes to care for their diabetic patients ; if practices are well equipped as part of a commitment to quality of care ; if the practice has access to dietitian services — most appropriately , perhaps , through the training of practice nurses in dietetics ; and , in such well organised practices , if only those patients with special problems are referred to hospital diabetic clinics . |
| 14 | EXETER 's meeting tomorrow offers the main hope of a resumption to jumps racing as freezing conditions continue to cause havoc around the country . |
| 15 | The end-result of a letter to Chief Alhaji Hamman Maiduguri . |
| 16 | The World Bank has postponed payment of a loan to Thailand to complete a large dam across the Mool River , 570 kilometres northeast of Bangkok , until the government has analyzed independent environmental-impact studies and carried out new assessments of its own . |
| 17 | ‘ Whether it rises to the level of a threat to US sovereign interests is another question . ’ |
| 18 | The assassination on May 23 of a leading anti-Mafia judge , Giovanni Falcone [ see below ] , shocked public opinion and galvanized the political parties into breaking the deadlock over the election of a successor to President Francesco Cossiga , and on May 25 the Christian Democrat ( CD ) Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , was elected . |
| 19 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 20 | To begin with , the local followers of the Methodist creed met in each others homes , then , in the ‘ hungry forties ’ when their members numbered about a score , they undertook the building of a chapel to seat 120 . |
| 21 | Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability . |
| 22 | American art scholar Professor Frederick Hartt won £7,500 libel damages at the High Court in London over two articles in the Independent on his attribution of a statuette to Michelangelo . |
| 23 | In 1906 the Chief Superintendent of the East India Railway provided readers of the Railway Magazine with a graphic description of a pilgrimage to Allahabad . |
| 24 | BAFTAGATE , the television 's industry 's most gripping drama , took a new turn yesterday when the four Bafta judges who complained about last month 's award of a prize to ITV 's Prime Suspect , demanded that Bafta produce the ballot slips . |
| 25 | In their Lordship 's judgment , the Guinness Articles permitted only the Board and not a committee of the Board to make the award of a fee to Mr Ward . |
| 26 | A KILLER stabbed three generations of a family to death then started three fires in their home . |
| 27 | For those who might be interested in such peculiarities it can be recorded that this book was written entirely on aeroplanes in the course of a trip to North America : London to New York ( British Airways flight 177 ) ; New York to Los Angeles ( American Airlines flight 3 ) ; Los Angeles to Toronto ( Air Canada flight 792 ) ; Toronto to Edmonton ( Air Canada flight 613 ) ; Edmonton to London via Toronto ( Air Canada flights 126 and 856 ) . |
| 28 | On Feb. 15 the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin said that , in the course of a visit to Islamabad , the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan had held routine meetings with " the leadership of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry , representatives of the diplomatic body and members of the Afghan opposition , including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar " . |
| 29 | During the course of a visit to London in 1986 , funded partially by the Clough Fund of Edinburgh Geological Society , the departmental collection in the Imperial College Library was studied . |
| 30 | Base of a monument to Diocletian , Rome |