Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel was now sixteen and working as clerk to a lawyer in the town . |
| 2 | A grant of £7,905 has also been approved for work to a house on East Parade , Sedgefield . |
| 3 | The Vendor is not party in relation to the Business or subject to any contract , covenant , commitments or arrangement of an onerous , unusual or long-term nature or having any provision which might reasonably be regarded as material for disclosure to a purchaser for value of the Business nor is it party to any contract likely to be unprofitable or to any contract made otherwise than in the ordinary and usual course of business as now carried on . |
| 4 | Marsh and Campbell ( 1982 ) attribute the lack of progress to a number of factors , including the difficulty of studying aggression both in laboratory and naturalistic settings , and to the compartmentalization of the academic world which leads to lack of communication across disciplines . |
| 5 | In 1992 we extended our programme of support to a variety of charities , particularly those related to local community projects and where employees are directly involved . |
| 6 | We have extended our programme of support to a variety of charitable organisations particularly those related to local community projects and where employees are directly involved . |
| 7 | He led her from the scene of horror to a patch of rocky high ground that seemed safe . |
| 8 | Stoke supporters caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a stand at Vale Park during Tuesday 's first-round replay as Lou Macari 's men lost 3–1 . |
| 9 | Detectives are probing the cause of a fire which caused £6,000 worth of damage to a wagon at the premises of Pioneer Concrete on the Graythorp Industrial Estate , near Hartlepool . |
| 10 | … then , without any question of resort to a court of equity , there might have been a defence in a court of law on the ground that any money recoverable on the note by the plaintiffs was recoverable by them merely as trustees for Sir Richard Temple , and that , under the circumstances disclosed by the correspondence , the relations between the father and son were such that it was impossible to suppose that the father wished to insist on payment of the note by the son . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But this argument assumes that there is some value in separating the issue of entitlement to apply for judicial review from the question of entitlement to a remedy at the end of the day . |
| 14 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 15 | He gave a lot of money to a number of hospitals . |
| 16 | l he ratio of the increase of money to an expansion of the liquidity base is called the ‘ money multiplier ’ . |
| 17 | In H.M.S. Surprise the difficulties the doctor endures in controlling one of his live specimens , an over-affectionate sloth addicted to alcohol , inspire laughter and add one more point of variety to a narrative of natural and man-made challenge . |
| 18 | Never allow a water pump to suck in air if it feeds a long length of pipework to a system of tanks or ponds . |
| 19 | Despite what has been said ( p. 50 ) about an inference from our conception of causation to a conclusion about the nature of reality , our present concern is that conception . |
| 20 | … For that purpose it makes no difference whether the illegality is raised in the plaintiff 's claim or by way of reply to a ground of defence … ( ii ) Where the grant of relief to the plaintiff would enable him to benefit from his criminal conduct : … ( iii ) Where , even though neither ( i ) nor ( ii ) is applicable to the plaintiff 's claim , the situation is nevertheless residually covered by the general principle summarised in ( i ) above . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The sport , he added , gives an enormous amount of pleasure to a lot of people , ‘ We are now seeing the second generation enjoying our facilities — youngsters whose parents used to ride around our tracks . ’ |
| 23 | They break the signifying chains which have so often bound the project of emancipation to a strategy of cultural assimilation . |
| 24 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 25 | The A&R man is the point of entry to a world of fame and riches . |
| 26 | She had regarded his suggestion that they be put in plastic as a piece of impertinence to a woman of her years . |
| 27 | We should not forget that it was not that long since Samuel Butler had published ( in 1878 ) his famous poem ‘ A Psalm Of Montreal ’ which was evoked by finding that Canadian ‘ philistinism ’ , had removed a Greek statue of Discobolus to a side-room in the Natural History Museum , presently used by a taxidermist , because of its ‘ vulgarity ’ . |
| 28 | Badr al-Din Mahmud ( Kadizade : kadi of Aleppo from 963/1555–6 to 967/1560 ) , also later to become Mufti of Istanbul , and in one specific case , quoted by Ata'i , was overruled by him ; while Molla Muslih al-Din Mustafa ( Circinzade Mustafa ) , appointed muderris/mufti in Bosnasarayi in 965/1557–8 , fought the kadi of Bosnasarayi to a standstill over certain matters , both then making representations to Istanbul and both being removed from office for their pains . " |
| 29 | The absence of reference to a division of the southern province , therefore , is not altogether surprising . |
| 30 | 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 . |