Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An £11,200 grant for renovations to a house on Foundry Street , Shildon , has been approved by Sedgefield District Council . |
| 2 | Under way at the moment is an investigation to determine the suitability of the Hunslet ‘ Wagonmaster ’ industrial locomotives used by Board na Mona The Irish Turf Board for conversion to a replica power bogie . |
| 3 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 4 | Meeting in special session on Oct. 25-26 , the central committee of Angola 's ruling MPLA-PT endorsed a reform programme for presentation to a party congress scheduled for December 1990 . |
| 5 | At the Information Retrieval Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois , Preece and Williams have worked on the development of a microcomputer-based intelligent terminal for interface to a model search system . |
| 6 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 7 | You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating . |
| 8 | They reflect a miraculous turnround from a loss of £9.3m to a profit of £5.6m for the year to August 1992 . |
| 9 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 10 | The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site . |
| 11 | The result of input to a program , such as sound , graphics , a file or printed matter produced after typing a document using a word processor for example . |
| 12 | In 1992 we extended our programme of support to a variety of charities , particularly those related to local community projects and where employees are directly involved . |
| 13 | We have extended our programme of support to a variety of charitable organisations particularly those related to local community projects and where employees are directly involved . |
| 14 | A number of employers have already given their seal of approval to a range of SCOTVEC module groupings , and more recognitions are in the pipeline . |
| 15 | A polite but clear piece of blackmail to a politician who dominated , but was not in absolute control of , the writer 's county politics . |
| 16 | She had regarded his suggestion that they be put in plastic as a piece of impertinence to a woman of her years . |
| 17 | It is quite simple to add a piece of decoration to a stocking stitch garment and the first question that arises is , how much ? |
| 18 | Despite what has been said ( p. 50 ) about an inference from our conception of causation to a conclusion about the nature of reality , our present concern is that conception . |
| 19 | Any elevation of Gloucester to a position of supreme authority during the minority would , however , have destroyed the very continuity which , on this interpretation , Edward was seeking . |
| 20 | Any elevation of Gloucester to a position of supreme authority during the minority would , however , have destroyed the very continuity which , on this interpretation , Edward was seeking . |
| 21 | In neither case were there significant amounts of assistance , which was somewhat surprising when one considered how the use of contractors could keep capital investment in machinery to a minimum . |
| 22 | Although these allegations , if made good , clearly amount to wrongdoing on the part of the third defendant in relation to a number of individual matters , they do not convey to my mind a particularly comprehensible account of a conspiracy or of systematically fraudulent conduct . |
| 23 | ‘ A person acts as an insolvency practitioner in relation to a company by acting — ( a ) as its liquidator , provisional liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver … |
| 24 | John Heath-Stubbs , another Oxford man who may count as the poet of the group , was a lifelong Conservative and High Churchman in reaction to a boyhood spent attending a progressive school in the Isle of |
| 25 | There are of course some real disadvantages in the switch from weekly to monthly pay , and the switch from cash to a bank account which tends to accompany this . |
| 26 | There was an overflow attendance of about 1,000 people at Trinity College in response to a plea from a Dublin housewife , Susan McHugh , for people to show their disgust at the murder of Warrington toddler , Johnathan Ball . |
| 27 | During the same period Glasgow and its conurbation have gone from being an industrial city with 60 per cent of its labour in manufacturing to a service centre with 60 per cent of its labour in service occupations . |
| 28 | But pupils beginning GCSE courses in September face a cut in coursework to a maximum of 40 per cent , and they will have to study Shakespeare and classics such as the Authorised Version of the Bible , Wordsworth 's poems and the novels of Jane Austen , the Brontes or Dickens . |
| 29 | The section defined secondary action in relation to a trade dispute as arising when a person induces another to break a contract of employment if the employer under the contract of employment is not a party to the trade dispute . |
| 30 | The doing of an act which there is a public duty to do — for example , attendance as a witness in response to a subpoena ( below , p. 217 ) has similarly been held to have no value in the law and to be insufficient consideration for a promise made in return for the doing of it . |