Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other recommendations included the introduction of a stamp duty or similar standard charge for planning applications , the retention of detailed design control ( ‘ in spite of its subjective nature ’ ) ; the use of ‘ design guides ’ for ‘ homogeneous areas ’ and of ‘ design briefs ’ for particular sites ; greater delegation to officers ; speedy production of structure and local plans ( in accordance with a national timetable ) ; stronger control procedures in ‘ special environmental areas ’ ( for example , national parks , conservation areas and other areas identified in development plans or policies ) ; the establishment of local authority information centres and independent planning advice centres ( on which details of current pioneering examples are given in an appendix to the report ) . |
| 2 | The tabular key has also been developed as an alternative to the traditional kind . |
| 3 | As the name of participating Banks and their subsidiaries are included as an Appendix to the Agreement th ABI have suggested that the heading should just be ‘ ABI/Banks Agreement ’ . |
| 4 | certainly in a far worse position than any other English claimant alleging erm any of the courses of action which are permitted as an exception to section fourteen |
| 5 | Like the American western railroads , the Russian Trans-Siberian had been built with an eye to migration and settlement . |
| 6 | Like most shows which are manufactured with an eye to commercial success ( Winnie , High Society , to name only Buddy 's predecessors at the Victoria Palace ) , this one will probably fail . |
| 7 | The ‘ agencies ’ proposed in the Ibbs Next Steps Report ( see Chapter 2 ) , for example , are seen as an alternative to government departments for the delivery of a wide range of executive functions in line with the Thatcher government 's emphasis on ‘ value for money ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , the first Labour government which took office in January 1924 , after Baldwin had been defeated on an amendment to the Address , lasted until October , when the new government in turn was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative motion which MacDonald chose to regard as a matter of confidence ; and the Conservatives rather than the Liberals were to be the beneficiaries of MacDonald 's fall . |
| 9 | The Guidelines are written as an overview to some of the issues raised in the Code for those who may be less familiar with recent developments . |
| 10 | This book has been written as an aid to the bench chemist and its scope is experimental rather than theoretical . |
| 11 | In the British context of the 1980s the political project that has come to be identified as ‘ Thatcherism ’ has commonly been seen as an attempt to legitimate both the reintegration of a restructured British economy into the global economy and the revision of the relationship between the state and civil society that the preferred version of restructuring required . |
| 12 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 13 | Such duties are owed by an innkeeper to any traveller calling at the inn . |
| 14 | We 're not talking about reviewing the structure plan , we 're talking about an alteration to it . |
| 15 | If goods are sold at an auction to someone who has been a party to such an agreement to abstain from bidding , then the seller can rescind the contract . |
| 16 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 17 | Firstly , and what I see as being most important his thoughts are used as an introduction to both acts . |
| 18 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 19 | The Times of 16 June was nearer the mark when it said ‘ … comments have gone farther in the direction of pessimism than appears to be justified ’ and reminded readers that ‘ the objects of the ZETA experiments were to produce and maintain high temperatures and to study the conditions in which these temperatures are produced as an aid to later stages in design . ’ |
| 20 | formerly St George 's Church , has been reconstructed as an adjunct to Register House in Princes Street and now contains important national archives . |
| 21 | Collective security , which had been understood as an alternative to the diplomacy discredited by the catastrophe of 1914 , became increasingly difficult to distinguish from the traditional pursuit of a balance of power in Europe . |
| 22 | The good behaviour of our own Club had been rewarded by an outing to Portobello last week . |
| 23 | Disc harrows consisting of gangs of concave steel discs are dragged at an angle to the line of draught . |
| 24 | This presumably implies that the contents had been consigned as an offering to the goddess , whose shrine or temple may have been nearby . |
| 25 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 26 | If there are reasons to indicate that the child has visual defects , more detailed and sophisticated tests will be undertaken by an ophthalmologist to whom the child will be referred . |
| 27 | They are fallings away from reason beyond conscious control , which require to be explained by an appeal to the unconscious . |
| 28 | If any difference shall arise as to the amount to be paid under these sections ( liability being otherwise admitted ) , such difference shall be referred to an arbitrator to be appointed by the parties in accordance with statutory provisions . |
| 29 | If any difference shall arise as to the amount to be paid under this Policy ( liability being otherwise admitted ) such difference shall be referred to an arbitrator to be appointed by the parties in accordance with the Statutory provisions in that behalf for the time being in force . |
| 30 | If any difference shall arise as to the amount to be paid under this Policy ( liability being otherwise admitted ) such difference shall be referred to an arbitrator to be appointed by the parties in accordance with the Statutory provisions in that behalf for the time being in force . |