Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned . |
| 2 | Then in 1870 he moved to London to a post as an articled clerk , and in 1877 was appointed librarian of the Incorporated Law Society . |
| 3 | He yearned for escape to a place and an audience which would appreciate his talents to the full . |
| 4 | The prosecution case was that the victim , R , came with others to a party attended by F and was stabbed by F during a general disturbance when R and the two other men in his group were stabbed by F's two brothers ( who were also charged ) . |
| 5 | Menem 's announcement came in response to a request by the World Jewish Congress , some of whose members he had invited to Buenos Aires to witness the signature of the decree . |
| 6 | The Welsh Secretary 's announcement came in response to a question from Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards . |
| 7 | The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots . |
| 8 | Later , at another party , the same group came on stage to a fanfare of John Lennon 's Power To The People . |
| 9 | Curiously , 11 months earlier , exactly the same thing happened in Trento to a poacher called Giacomo Montara , aged 40 ( Daily Star , 29 September ; Weekly News , 13 October 1990 ) . |
| 10 | They walked in silence to a gate at the end of the orchard and into a farmyard . |
| 11 | The college survived until its dissolution in 1579 , when it declined in status to a parish church . |
| 12 | This amounted in effect to a grant of £1,000 a year , the annual amount of the lease which was now extinguished . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Fraser of Wiltshire complained of bad language in an edition of the Channel 4 programme , Tonight With Jonathan Ross … the offending word arose in reply to a question about whether or not Paula Yates was going to have any more children . |
| 14 | The requirement effect on trade which member states of jurisdiction requirement , it is jurisdictionable because it is the first task that the commissioner of the court should undertake when considering quote from wind surfing get in constant and the concept and agreement which may effect trade is intended to define in the law governing cartels the boundary between the areas , respectively covered by community law and national law , it is not necessary law for the competition effected by the alleged restriction and the trade which is effected between members of states to be the same , an example in the defendants list of authorities it 's in the principal and in that case the restriction of competition arose in relation to a product possible spirits which was itself used to manufacture other products namely cognac , it was argued that the that since there was no trade between members of state and possible spirits there could be no effect upon trade between member of states and so twenty five could not apply , the court accepted that factual premise , there is no trade between member of state and import of spirits , but rejected the legal conclusion , they concluded that is was necessary for there to be an effect upon trade in the market where the restrictions occurred , they was trading another product which was related to possible spirits , and of course stated , it must be observed in that respect that any agreement who 's object to effect is to a strict competition by fixing minimum prices for an intermediate product is capable of effecting intro community trade , even if there is no trading in that intermediate product between members of state , that the product constitutes the raw material of another project marketing elsewhere |
| 15 | They lost in overtime to a field goal by Pete Stoyanovich , Miami 's rookie kicker . |
| 16 | She was also frightened of doing housework and passed on jobs to a support worker , announcing : ‘ She can do it . ’ |
| 17 | He went for advice to a firm of solicitors . |
| 18 | The Sekers Group profit before tax fell from £0.8m to a loss of £0.1m on sales marginally higher . |
| 19 | Soon after Oliver was put into your house on the night of the robbery , I listened in secret to a conversation between Monks and Fagin in the dark . |
| 20 | They went on holiday to a farmhouse at Ponsworthy in Devon and thither came a vast parcel , from the Clerical and General Tailors ( Breeches Makers etc. ) , of Sackville Street , Piccadilly , bill £376 ; chimeres , wristbands , rochets , frills , breeches , gaiters , purple dress coat , black barathea breeches , patent court shoes , silver-plated shoe buckles , and other less rare articles of apparel . |
| 21 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 22 | They were saved , only because 76 year old Nellie Bell managed to stagger to a phone and raise the alarm , before collapsing on the floor . |
| 23 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 24 | Milan : Operators reacted with frustration to a spate of new capital increase operations announced late last week . |
| 25 | After the meal the children marched in procession to a patch of ground where a foundation stone for new school rooms in commemoration of emancipation was laid by ‘ the friend of the negro , the friend of the children and the friend of man , JOSEPH STURGE Esq . ’ |
| 26 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 27 | At its annual meeting , hastily relocated from the severely damaged Baltic Exchange building , Mr Nicholas Baring , chairman , said in response to a question from a shareholder that such a possibility would be looked at very carefully . |
| 28 | On May 4th he said in answer to a question , as he has implied before , that he was an ‘ agnostic ’ on free trade , protectionism , managed trade or anything ; all he wanted was an ‘ open world trading system ’ . |
| 29 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |