Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . |
| 4 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
| 5 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 6 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 7 | For instance , someone who acts out neurotic conflicts by committing crimes like theft or robbery may be able to represent these activities even to himself as a response to material need rather than unconscious compulsion . |
| 8 | One day , during a recreation period , Lexandro betook himself to a scriptory to study — only to discover that both of his ‘ brothers ’ were already ensconced there , although at data consoles some distance apart . |
| 9 | Now that Joe is back from holiday , no doubt he will be in touch with you about a visit to Godalming . |
| 10 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 11 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 12 | The panel that he envisaged would be made up of their representatives and would provide them with a forum to air concerns . |
| 13 | Before the gun battle started the Vietnamese youths issued extravagant demands , including one for a flight to Thailand so they could fight communists . |
| 14 | Er at this point Douglas said er he thought it 'd be a jolly good idea if they dropped a few of these new bombs that they 'd discovered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki er on these slit eyed people and that would really show them who was in control of the world er now this , as you might expect , caused something of a problem to President Truman . |
| 15 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 16 | Tape Unit 14 is liable to come as something of a surprise to students who have not had the experience of examining colloquial English speech before . |
| 17 | It will be something of a surprise to cricket lovers in the ‘ Strong Country ’ if Mark Nicholas 's team does n't go close again in either the Benson and Hedges or the NatWest , and the advice is to have a little saver on both eventualities ( 20–1 with Surrey for the Benson & Hedges and 14–1 with Chandler for the NatWest ) . |
| 18 | It was , Harry says , something of a shock to life a flowerpot and be confronted by the toad 's baleful stare . |
| 19 | The involvement of parents to the extent which now obtains in the majority of our primary schools comes as something of a shock to teachers visiting English primary schools from overseas . |
| 20 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 21 | Silverberg became something of a hero to Clift , but analysis did n't help . |
| 22 | In the wake of the Rallye 's poor showing on the world rally circuit , the Limited 's success will be something of a boost to VW 's Motorsport division . |
| 23 | After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 . |
| 24 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 25 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 26 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 27 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 28 | This Autumn two victories in smaller races at Auteuil — one over timber , the other over the larger obstacles — readied him for a trip to Newbury for the Hennessy , his first outing in handicap company in Britain . |
| 29 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 30 | Although Mitterrand had reportedly originally intended to exclude the United States , Havel persuaded him during a visit to Paris in March 1991 that delegates be invited from members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) and would thus include the USA , Canada and Japan [ see p. 38155 for EBRD membership ] . |