Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before or since equalled for its length , number of sets and sheer volume of visual effects , this twelve part story remains a testament to the skills , planning and resourcefulness of Doctor Who 's most formative Director , Douglas Camfield , now sadly deceased . |
| 2 | All students attend a computer familiarisation course offering an introduction to word processing . |
| 3 | Framework knitting offered a lifeline to such people in ‘ open ’ parishes all over Leicestershire . |
| 4 | How drug addicts unlocked a key to Parkinson 's Disease |
| 5 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 6 | The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies . |
| 7 | Back in the cell Pete began a letter to his wife . |
| 8 | But the puritan lobby do a disservice to their cause by lumping everything under the one name , just as the temperance lobby forfeit respect by classing a Christmas sherry with a vodka bacchanal . |
| 9 | That night , after they make love , Mark falls asleep and Babur goes into the living room to write a letter to his parents . |
| 10 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 11 | As a family Queen 's Park Baptist Church means a lot to us , and it is good to be going into this task with such a strong church behind us . |
| 12 | The non-intervention policy with regard to ‘ lame ducks ’ was effectively abandoned with the politically inescapable rescue of Rolls Royce and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders , and the 1972 Industry Bill marked a return to the kind of industrial policy which had been evolving over the 1960s with the formation of NEDC and IRC . |
| 13 | Was n't it the thing for newly made rock stars to pledge an allegiance to an old jazz hero , a John Coltrane , a Charlie Mingus or onwards into obscurity ? |
| 14 | Moreover , neighbourhood police expressed a sensitivity to the effect which these casual encounters might have on the safety of those they talked to ‘ for you do n't know who 's watching ’ . |
| 15 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 16 | Given permission by the Brigade Major to pay a visit to the Highland Division to obtain new reeds for the bagpipes . |
| 17 | The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace 's dream of a theory of science , a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic : one certainly can not predict future events exactly if one can not even measure the present state of the universe precisely ! |
| 18 | At the other end of the scale , the relocation company assigns a counsellor to the family who assesses their requirements and provides a hand-held viewing schedule . |
| 19 | Then the burial party took a pace to the right and began digging the grave of another known soldier . |
| 20 | So that when want numbers of non-directed peasants began to spill out of the disaster areas in the early summer of 1921 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered its guberniia counterparts to put a stop to migration ‘ since the flight of the peasants … will ruin entirely our economic life ’ . |
| 21 | The building itself and the woodland environs remain an inspiration to all artists and to all art form . |
| 22 | The universities complained that the replacement of the University Grants Committee by the Universities Funding Council posed a threat to their independence , arguing that whereas the University Grants Committee represented the universities to the government , the Universities Funding Council represents the government to the universities . |
| 23 | Similarly , when life sentences are reviewed , the trial judge makes a recommendation to the parole board but complaints have been made that too frequently junior Ministers in the Home Office depart from the recommendation , usually by increasing the length of the period of imprisonment . |
| 24 | Apparently she thinks his pruning technique leaves a lot to be desired . ’ |
| 25 | " The ceremonies taught us by the Chinese emperors ceased to be celebrated fourteen years ago in China itself when the revolution of Sun Yat-sen put an end to the Manchu dynasty . |
| 26 | Stock revision programmes offer an alternative to a comprehensive stock-taking . |
| 27 | Alternatively , Option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR can be used by a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege to force a user to be responsible for the SPR . |
| 28 | Alternatively , Option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR can be used by a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege to force a user to be responsible for the SPR . |
| 29 | His household accounts reveal an attachment to robust and expensive pleasures : £5 went to pay his card debts ; £2.13s. 4d. to a man who brought him a lion ; £30 to a young damsel who danced . |
| 30 | The AAA tried during the winter months to bring an end to the hostility between Frank Dick and me . |