Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The areas covered included a guide to procurement of computer hardware and software within the RAF , a help desk to assist with the diagnosis of problems on the large variety of PCs within the Engineering Branch of the RAF and extensions to the use of rule induction techniques in the diagnosis of avionic faults at the MU .
2 Death sentence : A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death for blasphemy against Mohammad .
3 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head .
4 On the second of July of this year , the Home Secretary made a statement to Parliament on the subject of asylum .
5 I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least .
6 He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
7 CAT STEVENS , or erstwhile Muslim YUSUF ISLAM , has become a convert to Catholicism under the name KENNY O'HARE .
8 An economics graduate , he had become an adviser to Solidarity in 1980 , and had started his own timber haulage company after losing his job in industrial training following the 1981 imposition of martial law .
9 The next week Meg had received an invitation to dinner at Martyr 's Cottage .
10 Many adults have developed an immunity to tuberculosis in this manner .
11 On June 17 the Council of Ministers secured from trade union representatives an agreement consolidating a no-strike understanding reached on June 9 , which had brought a return to work on June 10 .
12 The monitoring and control issues marked a return to consensus in the two groups ' assessments of how matters stood .
13 If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery .
14 Jaq had willed a spy-fly to home on the man , whose face he recognized from the Tarot card .
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