Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides they may be some value or of interest to a museum , you never know . ’ |
| 2 | A Mareva injunction is one granted , either after judgment to the successful plaintiff or before trial to a plaintiff who has a good arguable case on the merits , restraining a defendant ‘ from dealing with or disposing of or removing from the jurisdiction ’ any or all of his assets . |
| 3 | For example , the activity might be the teacher in exposition to the whole class ( E ) , or in exposition to a group of 10 pupils ( E10 ) . |
| 4 | This adds a further regulator to receptor-matrix interaction and implies that specific receptor expression may be influenced by nuclear events or in response to a change in matrix . |
| 5 | A republic might secede subject to a referendum called by the republic 's Supreme Soviet either on its own initiative or in response to a petition signed by at least 10 per cent of USSR citizens permanently resident in that republic . |
| 6 | It is a situation of great humiliation for women when they realise they do not possess their bodies except in relation to a man who might give them something — either children or some economic advantage . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule , ‘ principals ’ shall be construed , except in relation to a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , as referring to principals who are solicitors ; and |
| 8 | The court was told he had used cocaine and heroin and he also admitted that in addition to a cocktail of drugs he had been drinking heavily the evening before the incident . |
| 9 | Where they differ is in the unique properties of their cell membranes , for the nerve cell membrane is excitable — which means that in response to a signal , such as a small local fluctuation in ion concentration across the membrane , it can rapidly become permeable to the ions outside it . |
| 10 | Express a point of view cogently and with clarity to a range of audiences and interpret with accuracy a range of statements by others . |
| 11 | She was making a tiny , repetitive sound , a little mew , as if in response to a lover 's touch . |
| 12 | Can you imagine going into a Hi-Fi , VCR or camera shop and in response to a question about Bitstream Processing , Nicam Transmission or intelligent autofocus respectively , you were told the above ? |
| 13 | In the immediate mode and in response to an INPUT statement , some control codes have a special significance to the input line editor ( see later ) ; with the exception of |
| 14 | The single line editor is active in the immediate mode and in response to an INPUT statement in a program . |
| 15 | This development is in part a response to the rapidly growing demand for psychogeriatric services as a result of demographic trends , and in part to an acknowledgment that the multidisciplinary nature of these services needs to be fully reflected in the way they are managed and delivered . |
| 16 | The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) . |
| 17 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
| 18 | It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences . |
| 19 | During this time you will also continue with your Naval general training , and spend time gaining practical experience in the wardroom and on assignment to an officer 's cabin . |
| 20 | Friesians cleared at £265 , while fat cows made £109.65 for M Mairs for a 570 kg Friesian and to £108 to A Doherty for a Simmental . |
| 21 | ‘ Mud ! ’ she muttered , Meredith realised not to her but in response to a thought triggered by the weather and important to the speaker . |
| 22 | Teachers will help each other , and heads and senior teachers will continue to provide their traditional extra assistance , but in addition to a school being run happily it now matters that other verifiable indicators of performance which form the basis of outside judgement are also taken fully into account . |
| 23 | It has published a booklet , called New Arrivals — A Guide to Non-religious Naming Ceremonies , which gives five alternatives , ranging from the personal to something similar to the vows in the Christian ceremony but without reference to a deity . |
| 24 | In place of the school-based , or perhaps consortia-organized , profiles of the 1970s and early 1980s , there was an increasing tendency for profiling schemes to become more formally institutionalized in either a local authority context and/or in relation to an Examination Board for the purposes of validation . |
| 25 | Controlling the money supply in Victorian Britain was technically quite easy because of adherence to a gold standard . |
| 26 | Used strictly whether in reference to a household , a corporation or a government , an economy consists of a set of activities by which scarce means are allocated to specific ends . |