Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SARAH MADDOCK turned in a five star show to help the Liverpool and District Association to a comfortable win in the north west inter-association age group competition at Everton Park . |
| 2 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 3 | Since the partners are , in law , agents for the partnership , they may therefore by their actions bind the partnership to a particular course of conduct . |
| 4 | Of the other two big continental powers , Germany is busy absorbing the former East German army and cutting the new all-German force to a promised limit of 370,000 men , as agreed to in the European conventional arms-control treaty in Paris last November . |
| 5 | The application of a force to a simple liquid of low molar mass is relieved by the flow of molecules past one another into new positions in the system . |
| 6 | Muhammad Ali attributed some of his victories in the boxing ring to a prior course of treatment with B15 . |
| 7 | This line of development underlines the base/superstructure dichotomy and reduces consciousness to a simple reflection of the material base of society . |
| 8 | These trends are bringing world football to a new stage in its internationalisation , which could lead to the corruption of the game . |
| 9 | Each student FTE in each of the categories then entitles the institution to a specific unit of funding . |
| 10 | In recent years the courts have frequently granted an injunction to restrain a defendant to a civil action from disposing of any of his assets , or removing them from the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 11 | A lift leads from the terrace to a private jetty with towels , deck-chairs , sun umbrellas and a beach bar . |
| 12 | According to the sealed document sent in return for my cheque , the club has pledged that part of the pitch known as H24/V72 which consists of one square yard and subsoil to a maximum depth of two inches . |
| 13 | The ill-fated advertisements were to form a preliminary campaign , costing £100,000 , as a prelude to a major campaign in the coming financial year . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which seemed the prelude to a new era of French expansion , had alarmed the other European powers . |
| 15 | The attack now projected , with the aid of the promised reinforcements , was to be only a prelude to a further offensive on a great scale . |
| 16 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 17 | I would therefore hold that money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority is prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 18 | In December his reply to a new mission from the king and archbishop contained no mention of homage , and this omission was balanced by unusual violence in the condemnation of lay investiture : |
| 19 | Today I have had a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister , which tells me the latest figures of young people currently in young offender institutions . |
| 20 | In reply to a parliamentary question in 1984 , Peter Morrison ( then a Minister of State for Employment ) confirmed that ‘ the Government is not convinced that legislating against age discrimination in employment would be beneficial or practicable . |
| 21 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |
| 22 | The AR-WACC Women 's Desk was closed this year because it was time to turn it over to an existing women 's group which would take the programme to a new phase in its development as well as broadening the network . |
| 23 | Our strategy is influenced by your requirement for confidentiality and will be based on a circulation to a small number of carefully selected parties . |
| 24 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 25 | Earlier , a big split was threatened over the language to be used about German reunification — with President Mitterrand and the Italian Prime Minister , Mr Giulio Andreotti , expressing opposition to a simple reference to German ‘ self-determination ’ . |
| 26 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher confirmed in the Commons that ministers were reconsidering their opposition to a sustained campaign by an all-party group of MPs . |
| 28 | It went on to declare its opposition to a strict line on suspension of those countries in default in meeting IMF repayment obligations , which , it said , " will not serve a useful purpose and is not acceptable " . |
| 29 | Britain simultaneously wrote to West Germany , stressing its opposition to a common market of only six countries , and asking for West German support for a much broader free trade area based upon the OEEC states . |
| 30 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to a previous threat of this kind , made by the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , the right hon. Gentleman withdrew it at once . |