Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | This illustrates the vital importance of prompt and detailed investigation to establish the FACTS in each case to enable a decision to be made . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted , if not empirically demonstrated , that the prospect of widening regional imbalances poses a threat to economic and monetary union . |
| 4 | How businesses , especially small businesses , were supposed to survive interest rates at that level remains a mystery to me . |
| 5 | His stand was interpreted as an attempt to use economic leverage to force a halt to Jewish settlement building in the Israeli-occupied territories , at least for the duration of the peace conference . |
| 6 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 7 | Where a person is injured it is normal practice to take a statement to the effect that ‘ the following injuries were sustained ’ . |
| 8 | Disinfection in normal practice presents a challenge to management . |
| 9 | Each professor has a right to money and manpower resources depending only on his level of seniority and not on his track record in research . |
| 10 | Adenauer 's foreign policy seemed threatened in August 1954 , when a vote by the French parliament put an end to the European Army project and caused a delay in the restoration of German sovereignty . |
| 11 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 12 | This case concerned an application to the European Patent Office ( EPO ) and the invention was a new digital image processing system , the process steps being expressed mathematically in the form of an algorithm . |
| 13 | This case involved an appeal to the Privy Council from Hong Kong . |
| 14 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 15 | The next day a French shell put an end to the correspondence , and to a great talent . |
| 16 | Like Bulmer ( 1982 ) , we believe that social researchers have a responsibility to the subjects of their research , but this is doubled in our case because of the additional obligation on us to protect their personal security in whatever small way , as researchers , we can . |
| 17 | This award confirms a commitment to clients by offering both products and an after-sales service monitored by a guaranteed quality assurance policy . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , Lukacs 's comments at the theoretical level mark a return to the collaborative possibilities that were available at a practical level in France during the 1930s . |
| 19 | There 's still the statutory position with the occupational therapist of this department makes a recommendation to the er on the f on the proposals submitted to us by the district council but it 's purely a , a lowering of the mandatory limit , the discretionary limit remains the same and it remains to see how that will work in practice . |
| 20 | This term emphasizes an approach to RE which concentrates on what is essential from several points of view , with regard to breadth , depth , relevance and time . |
| 21 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 22 | By the Wednesday the revolution had spread to Moscow , Kronstadt and the Baltic Fleet and the High Command ordered a halt to Ivanov 's expedition . |
| 23 | Thus detection of a semantic anomaly forces a check to be made on the identification of a word , and this checking increases lexical decision time . |
| 24 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 25 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 26 | This Chapter provides an exception to our deliberate omission of the historical aspects of kite flying , because we are about to describe an incredible revival of an age-old practice . |
| 27 | This chapter provides an introduction to evaluation in library user education . |
| 28 | This chapter contains an introduction to methods of digital image processing applied to Landsat image data . |
| 29 | This chapter includes an introduction to the process of basic toilet training a young child and then examines the problems in continence that young children show . |
| 30 | However , the November 1985 review saw a return to a policy of discriminating against child benefit . |