Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed in its 1964 election campaign this had been merged with Labour 's ambitious promises to develop a multiracial Commonwealth as an alternative to membership of the EEC . |
| 2 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 3 | After the hearing but before judgment it was decided that there should be a further hearing before an Appellate Committee of seven Lords to determine the issue whether , and in what circumstances , Parliamentary debates on a Bill might be used as an aid to construction of the ensuing Act . |
| 4 | In Pepper v. Hart , Lord Browne-Wilkinson stated that ‘ … reference to parliamentary material should be permitted as an aid to construction of legislation which is ambiguous or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity ’ and subsequently carefully established the ambiguity in the statutory provision in issue before relying on parliamentary material as an aid to its construction . |
| 5 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 6 | He once recommended two or three cigarettes a day as an aid to clarity of thought and memory . |
| 7 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 8 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |