Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords , in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 2 | He then took various jobs including that of a clerk to an estate agent , a shop assistant in a department store and even as a tea taster for a firm of tea merchants . |
| 3 | The attraction of a landscape to an individual will thus be a result of energies , however defined , running through both the individual and the landscape . |
| 4 | Well I mean it 's impor I think it 's quite important to remember it 's sort of a means to an end . |
| 5 | In the internal labour market , instead of a commitment to an occupation per se , they suggest , one finds that because of permanent employment and seniority payment systems , workers tend to be more committed to their organizations than to their occupations . |
| 6 | So this is an area where no sort of remedy is obtainable from the attempt to invoke or elicit the natural response of a community to an attack upon its health . |
| 7 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 8 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 9 | And I just spent three quarters of an hour to an hour with him and he said , Well I 've had a look at this erm , no thanks not for me . |
| 10 | Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from where we are through the tunnel |
| 11 | Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from we are through the tunnel |
| 12 | Accordingly , intimation of an objection to an application for a renewal or a permanent transfer to the applicant in pursuance of 5.16(2) does not amount to a citation to attend . |
| 13 | However , the cry for a return to an era of independence and economic autonomy for Britain is not an available option , so we must make the best deals possible in the circumstances in which we find ourselves . |
| 14 | One important practical benefit of this rule is that journalists can approach the subject of their investigation for a response to an article in draft , without fear that they will receive a pre-publication injunction instead of a quote . |
| 15 | It is not unusual , then , for a call to an officer on the radio to go without response . |
| 16 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 17 | During a visit to an airfield he clocked it at 95 mph . |
| 18 | The leak took place in a " hot cell " , used for treating highly radioactive waste , during a switch to an emergency power system while the main power was shut down during construction work . |
| 19 | As a reference to an expert is a contract , disputes between the parties as to its validity have to be determined on that basis . |
| 20 | The issue of what must be disclosed ( and when ) in order to obtain a consent which will operate as a defence to an allegation of breach of fiduciary duty , will now be considered . |
| 21 | The first way to avoid such danger is not to plead any general exclusion clause as a defence to an action for a class of liability for which the UCTA renders exclusion clauses unenforceable . |
| 22 | Its dual chart is an attractive option in that it allows you to link two pie or bar chart charts or a pie and a bar chart — as illustrated here ( DUALGRPH ) It also offers Word charts — a variety that it is unusual to find in a spreadsheet but very welcome given that you can use the graphics facilities of SuperCalc 5.5 to prepare slides suitable for use as a presentation to an audience . |
| 23 | Lore went as a receptionist to an army hospital in Abergele and then was posted to Canterbury , where she worked for Personnel Selection . |
| 24 | A much safer route to travel is that which Mr Garton Ash approves only as a means to an end , namely that of encouraging urgent reform in the German Democratic Republic , but as a separate state with a future of its own . |
| 25 | Freedom is valuable and is valued by the public as an end in itself , but as a means to an end it has proved a failure . |
| 26 | Rap as a means to an end ; with the Blackwatch group , the hard line message is in the music |
| 27 | These should be viewed as a means to an end , rather than as ends in themselves . |
| 28 | However , participation is seldom evaluated as a means to an end , that is effectiveness , she maintains . |
| 29 | There is considerable debate about the value of education for its own sake , rather than as a means to an end . |
| 30 | Coercion is possible when there is a government willing to use state power , but it also fails — not solely because coercion as a means to an end tends to fail but because both programmes , in order to achieve any impact , involved very large numbers of people , even the majority , which implies serious problems for the logistics of coercion and of mass political backlash . |