Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of opportunity to respond to the unexpected can be dealt with only by striving to eliminate it . |
| 2 | She filled a jug with water from the pail , found rag , a tankard and another crust of bread to add to the food in her pocket . |
| 3 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 4 | The case is now strong enough for the weight of interest to shift to the other dimension of interpretation . |
| 5 | The discretionary nature of the grant of leave to appeal to the House of Lords avoids any suggestion that there might be abuse of such an approach . |
| 6 | ‘ What d'yer want , a bit of 'elp to get to the lav ? |
| 7 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 8 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 9 | There is a greater variety of descriptions to apply to the different areas this model takes into account outlying business districts which Burgess ' did not . |
| 10 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 11 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 12 | Was it conscientiously possible , in such circumstances , for the Archbishop of Canterbury to recommend to the prime minister that the Archbishop of York should succeed him ? |
| 13 | Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying . |
| 14 | If so , it had been one more error of judgment to add to the bleak arithmetic of failure since he had taken up his new job . |
| 15 | The right of viewers to reply to the violation of human rights and privacy is guaranteed . |
| 16 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 17 | The first , filed by The Lawyers Collective ( Bombay ) challenges the constitutionality of the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Act 1985 which gives the government sole right to sue on behalf of the Victims and takes away the right of individuals to go to the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | Gavin Drewry 's analysis of the grant and refusal of leave to appeal to the House of Lords in 1971 demonstrated that leave was routinely refused in cases where the second appeal raised issues of review , that leave was granted in cases involving issues of supervision , and that there was a mixture of refusals and grants in cases falling in the grey area of reconsideration of authority without critical re-appraisal of the cases ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | The biggest problem has been the failure of farmers to stick to the requirement to withdraw the drug at least 10 days before pigs are slaughtered . |
| 20 | The failure of ants to come to the rescue of an infested colleague may be the result of the mite successfully mimicking the smell of an ant larva . |
| 21 | When you make a point of try to listen to the world , |
| 22 | It has a multi-disciplinary team both for the selection of people to move to the community and to manage their services — take decisions on their services once they are in the community . |
| 23 | You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby . |
| 24 | And the other thing to say to from me is yes , we would love a multiplicity of views to go to the District Health Authority , I and my predecessor Betty Stanford , who were District Council Members on that health authority , we were there and able to listen to and able to contribute to the debate , the Government White Paper has taken us off , so that is not a good start in terms of how you involve the city and the district with the policy decisions of the health authority . |
| 25 | Surely arrangements should have been made to allow the Secretary of State to report to the House on the outcome of the consultations and on the advice of his expert , Mr. Roy Stoner of Southampton university , about the objections voiced during the consultation period . |
| 26 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 27 | In such circumstances LIFESPAN RDBI will make a number of attempts to write to the error log . |
| 28 | Farmers , too , need to understand more about the social impulses which prompt an increasing number of urbanites to look to the countryside for relaxation and enjoyment . |
| 29 | She had a lot of love to give to the right man . |
| 30 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |