Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 2 | Neither , though , does he regret re-signing for the club last summer after intense speculation that had him moving under freedom of contract to an assortment of clubs in England or the continent . |
| 3 | l he ratio of the increase of money to an expansion of the liquidity base is called the ‘ money multiplier ’ . |
| 4 | This method of operating the break-clause may be advantageous to the landlord in that he may delay the service of a section 25 notice until he is in a position to establish a ground of opposition to an application for a new tenancy . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the internal processes which underlie the way we perceive and think must be of relevance to an understanding of the way sign language works for deaf people . |
| 6 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 7 | US-government-funded research has also linked fluoridation of water to an increase in osteosarcoma , a bone cancer . |
| 8 | This usage of ‘ professional ’ does indeed have connotations of skill or excellence or efficiency and , perhaps , of commitment to an end to which the activity constitutes the means . |
| 9 | The moral of all this , of course , is that , as language is variable at all times , there is something unsatisfactory about applying a unilinear and uniform-state style of interpretation to an account of language history . |
| 10 | In looking for the means to undermine Chomsky 's position , generative semanticists were then attracted to a considerable body of philosophical thought devoted to showing the importance of the uses of language to an understanding of its nature ( work by Austin , Strawson , Grice and Searle in particular ) . |
| 11 | The top pair of figures shows the sensitivity of fitness to an increase in fertility in the two sexes ( r/ m(x) ) . |
| 12 | Can an order for repayment to an investor of money paid by the investor pursuant to an investment transaction induced by a contravention of section 47 be described as an order to take steps to remedy the contravention ? |
| 13 | Pro-democracy groups [ see pp. 37428-29 ] reacted with consternation to an announcement on Feb. 26 by the Amir of Kuwait , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , placing the country under martial law for a period of three months . |
| 14 | These will include assertions to the effect that the sun is situated at some specified position in the sky with respect to an observer on earth , and that raindrops are falling from a cloud situated in some specified region relative to the observer . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) If an applicant is convicted of an offence under subsection ( 1 ) above relation to an application before the board , the board may refuse to consider the application . |
| 16 | Habermas develops the notion of ideology from critical theory 's broad concern with culture to an analysis of its role in sustaining rationality and resisting the economic and political crises characteristic of capitalism . |
| 17 | This development came about in response to an increase in the number of child abuse cases being uncovered and the sensitivity of the issues involved , combined with a widely held view that social workers were ill-prepared to deal with complex cases of this kind . |
| 18 | They responded accordingly — reduced output in response to an increase in σ . |
| 19 | Palestinian activists initiated a re-evaluation of the intifada during June , partly in response to an increase in intra-Palestinian violence . |
| 20 | As explained in Chapter 16 , there are four possible sources of monetary growth : ( a ) banks choosing to hold a lower liquidity ratio ( probably in response to an increase in the demand for loans ) ; ( b ) a balance of payments surplus ; ( c ) public sector borrowing ; ( d ) a change in the method of financing the national debt . |
| 21 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 22 | ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him . |
| 23 | In response to an order from Bulgaria Rochdale 's Mainair Sports now offer three fibreglass/Kevlar floats for their Gemini Flash 2 Alpha flexwing . |
| 24 | In May 1688 Ken was urgently summoned to London by Sancroft , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to consult with his fellow bishops in response to an Order in Council requiring them to instruct their clergy to read in Church a Declaration of Indulgence ; under this , Roman Catholics and Dissenters would no longer be required to subscribe to oaths under the Test Acts . |
| 25 | Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods . |
| 26 | The FRC had earlier announced that it would be releasing the three hostages in response to an appeal by the Libyan leader Col. Moamar al Kadhafi . |
| 27 | In response to an appeal by the Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger ( USTN ) on May Day 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system , Mamadou Dagra , the Minister of Civil Service and Labour , said that this was not excluded by Niger 's current political system , but it was an issue which should not be pursued with haste . |
| 28 | Returning from a visit to East Africa in the first week of February , Chalker announced that the UK would send a further 20,000 tonnes of food , worth £4,000,000 ( US$7,800,000 ) , in response to an appeal from the UN World Food Programme . |
| 29 | ‘ My dear Mr Sixsmith : In response to an inquiry from … |
| 30 | For example , though normally consent is given in response to an initiative of another it need not be . |