Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This court had the advantage , denied to the previous court , of a reference to Government of the United States of America v. Bowe [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 500 . |
| 2 | On the other hand , closure of a feature to tourism for conservation purposes is undesirable , because it defeats the purpose of conservation which is its preservation for future generations . |
| 3 | The refined chassis is complemented by advanced suspension damping system which reacts in one five thousandth of a second to information from six sensors within the car , ensuring the perfect balance of comfort and security whatever the driving conditions . |
| 4 | The chroniclers report the campaigns in muted terms , and give little impression of a will to war amongst either the nobility or the community generally . |
| 5 | For example , Starbuck ( 1982 ) states that rarely is there a neat sequence of events through from recognition of a problem to definition of the problem , generating possible actions , selection of the appropriate option and implementation . |
| 6 | If rest and relaxation are purely passive — from flopping in front of a TV to meditation on emptying the mind — we are no longer in control of what enters our minds or unconscious . |
| 7 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 8 | The US Supreme Court , in its first right-to-die ruling on June 25 , 1990 , recognized the right of a patient to withdrawal of life support , but ruled that individual states could insist upon " clear and convincing evidence " of a patient 's wishes before authorizing such action . |
| 9 | However , there are some misgivings about development which tends to boost land and house prices without providing significant job opportunities for ‘ ordinary ’ people or , apparently , acting as much of a catalyst to growth in the rest of the local economy . |
| 10 | The talks covered the holding of elections in Cambodia , the prevention of a return to power by the Khmers Rouges , administration in the transitional period before elections , the restoration of peace and the country 's permanent neutrality , and the issue of US prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action ( POW-MIA ) . |
| 11 | In its statement finally agreed early on May 9 the Collective State Presidency ( i ) banned for one month the movement of armed formations and civilians other than army and federal police at " crisis flashpoints " in Croatia , and between mainly Serbian areas and other parts of Croatia ; ( ii ) ordered the immediate demobilization of all police reservists in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons ; and ( iii ) set up a commission including Croatian representatives as well as " legitimate representatives " of Serbs from Croatia to investigate the causes of the crisis including " the right of a nation to self-determination including secession " . |
| 12 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 13 | This might occur if general practices encouraged a partner with a special interest in diabetes to care for their diabetic patients ; if practices are well equipped as part of a commitment to quality of care ; if the practice has access to dietitian services — most appropriately , perhaps , through the training of practice nurses in dietetics ; and , in such well organised practices , if only those patients with special problems are referred to hospital diabetic clinics . |
| 14 | She reviews her own changing perceptions in the light of a commitment to equality of opportunity for all learners . |
| 15 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 16 | Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) . |
| 17 | Hun Sen , the prime minister , constantly emphasises in his election campaign that his government is the sole credible safeguard against a return to power by Pol Pot 's men . |
| 18 | The Phnom Penh government and its army are the only reliable safeguards against a return to power by the Khmers Rouges . |
| 19 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 20 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 21 | Justin Lekhanya , the Chairman of the ruling Military Council , on Feb. 23 , 1990 , announced a programme of political and economic reforms which included the immediate formation of two task forces headed by Foreign Minister Tom Thabane and Finance Minister Evaristus Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana respectively , the first to recommend a timetable for a return to democracy by June 1992 and the other to seek ways of streamlining expenditure and achieving efficiency in government or semi-state-owned enterprises . |
| 22 | They called for a return to democracy in Peru following the April presidential coup [ see pp. 38846-47 ] and declared themselves " profoundly preoccupied " by the political situation in Haiti and Cuba . |
| 23 | MR JOHN PATTEN , the new Education Secretary , has begun his term in office with a passionate condemnation of the godlessness of society and an appeal for a return to belief in good and evil . |
| 24 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 25 | Queen , or whether it was permissible for a court to sentence on the basis of the offender 's previous record , for which , as Ashworth ( 1990 ) has pointed out , there is also Court of Appeal authority . |
| 26 | Tha , well he went to Spain for a month to sort of recuperate . |
| 27 | The derivation is based on the interpretation of a bond as a composition of an annuity ( which provides the coupon stream ) and a zero-coupon bond ( which provides the principal repayment ) represented by ( using ( 5.29 ) with P d = B = 100 and d = rp T ) : where rp T is the par yield for a term to maturity of T years , where the discount factor D T is the fair price of a zero-coupon bond with par value of 1 and a term to maturity of T years , and where is the fair price of an annuity of 1 per year for T years ( with A o = 0 by convention ) . |
| 28 | The rate of return on this investment would be the one-year rolling yield for a term to maturity of ten years . |
| 29 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 30 | Internal audit is defined as an ‘ independent appraisal within a department which operates as a service to management by measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of the internal control system ’ ( para . |