Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . |
| 4 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
| 5 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 6 | Now that Joe is back from holiday , no doubt he will be in touch with you about a visit to Godalming . |
| 7 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 8 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 9 | The panel that he envisaged would be made up of their representatives and would provide them with a forum to air concerns . |
| 10 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 11 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 12 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 13 | This Autumn two victories in smaller races at Auteuil — one over timber , the other over the larger obstacles — readied him for a trip to Newbury for the Hennessy , his first outing in handicap company in Britain . |
| 14 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 15 | Although Mitterrand had reportedly originally intended to exclude the United States , Havel persuaded him during a visit to Paris in March 1991 that delegates be invited from members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) and would thus include the USA , Canada and Japan [ see p. 38155 for EBRD membership ] . |
| 16 | Musso replied by abusing Sukarno , reviving the accusation that he had recruited romusha slave labour , accusing him of a sell-out to America . |
| 17 | They wound him in a cloak to pinion him from struggling , and twisted folds of the cloth hard round his mouth . |
| 18 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 19 | The two clergymen went with him on a trip to Laeken near Brussels . |
| 20 | MAGISTRATES have changed the bail conditions of a teenager facing robbery and aggravated vehicle taking charges so social workers can take him on a holiday to Spain . |
| 21 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 22 | But claims that he sexually harassed her on a trip to Cannes were rejected . |
| 23 | He suddenly remembered writing cheery lewd limericks with her on a train to Yugoslavia , and worrying about the possibility of her getting pregnant there with the child he longed for , bothering about the bad doctors and the heat . |
| 24 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |
| 25 | Critics of the whole APU testing programme , such as Holt ( 1981 ) saw it as a threat to teacher autonomy . |
| 26 | The early Church used it as a call to faithfulness and obedience in the interim before the Second Coming of Jesus and the establishing of the kingdom of Heaven over all the earth . |
| 27 | One prepares one 's Bill and then presents it as a petition to Parliament . |
| 28 | Try it as a supplement to Mackerras and the Vienna Philharmonic ( mid-price Decca ) , my long-standing recommendation for the two big works . |
| 29 | Would Silas see her name , recognise it as a connection to Bertha , and then ask her to leave ? |
| 30 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |