Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he suggested there was perhaps a need to look into the system more closely . |
| 2 | Meade cites the membership of the ‘ little company of four men and four women who , in 1379 , could afford to provide only a candle to burn during the daily mass at the church of St Nicholas , Great Yarmouth ’ . |
| 3 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 4 | Has X got property rights over the goods entitling him to recover the goods ( or their value ) in priority to any other creditors of Y Ltd. , or , on the other hand , is he merely an unsecured creditor having only a right to sue for the price ? |
| 5 | This is problematic for a group which has no longer a part to play in the productive sector . |
| 6 | Legislation would not , of course , be just a requirement to comply with the code . |
| 7 | If it 's just a cough to go with the cold then there 's nothing they can do anyway , but if it 's an asthmatic cough then I can give him some erm Ventolin . |
| 8 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 9 | And the ex-Minister learned that when someone else foots the bill there is always a price to pay in the end . |
| 10 | It is always a privilege to speak from the Opposition Dispatch Box , especially towards the end of a Third Reading debate . |
| 11 | It is always a pleasure to reply to the beguiling and dulcet tones of the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) . |
| 12 | It is always a pleasure to speak in the same debate as the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 13 | I think that may have been construed as impolite , so I smiled and replied that , yes indeed it was still a bit to go before the top , and wow , certainly it was proving mighty tough . |
| 14 | However , there is still a need to discriminate between the management skills appropriate to completing the task and the leadership qualities relevant to meeting individual and team needs . |
| 15 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 16 | Protests have followed the weekend killings in South Africa , President De Klerk has cut short a visit to attend to the crisis , Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling for South Africa to be expelled from the Olympic games if action is not taken . |
| 17 | It was once a privilege to belong to the Broederbond ; now there is a scurry to get out , led by Andreas van Wyk , who was supposed to become the group 's next chairman . |
| 18 | Minutes earlier , General Noriega , the military dictator , urged supporters at a rally to ‘ defeat the indecisive ones ’ — presumably a reference to dissent within the military after the second failed rebellion against him in less than two years . |
| 19 | Firemen had taken nearly an hour to cut through the roof and dig the rubble with their hands . |
| 20 | The challenge involves a variety of modes of transport and the time taken for a particular journey , typically a journey to work during the rush hour . |
| 21 | The associated spelling standardization is mainly an attempt to cope with the differences between British and American spelling : there are 13 rules , including " iz " — " is " non-terminal " ae " — " e " and terminal " tre — " ter " The spelling rules are given in full by Walker and Jones . |
| 22 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 23 | Well they they 've halved the tablet twice a day to get into the . |
| 24 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The crew had quite a struggle to get into the cabin . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of old people there and er there 's a quite a way to walk to the shops . |
| 27 | With less then a week to go before the autumn budget there 's much speculation as to where the axe and the tax will fall . |
| 28 | The role of political pressures such as these as a major influence upon the development of employers ' associations has been emphasised by Adams ( 1981 ) , who puts forward a theory to account for the broad differences between Western Europe and the USA both in the extent of organisation among employers themselves and in their behaviour towards trade unions . |
| 29 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 30 | With barely a week to go before the maiden flight , Paul 's report made alarming reading . |