Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report of the Third Committee that dealt with the topic , Population and the Family , for instance , while noting that " high infant mortality was especially recognized as a deterrent to fertility decline " and , consequently , two recommendations to this effect were adopted by the World Population Plan of Action , also mentioned that " It was widely acknowledged that the ability to determine the number and spacing of children influences family well-being , partly because of the effect upon the health of both mothers and children . " |
| 2 | While it is easy to imagine the value of having the information available in digital format , one realises that its preservation is not being undertaken for the value to posterity of the data , but because of its commercial value to 20th Century-Fox . |
| 3 | Traders said yesterday 's drop was intended as a correction to over-reaction by the market . |
| 4 | These were intended as an aid to discussion , a means of stimulating debate . |
| 5 | The painted texts , which emphasized the importance of the Word , were intended as an aid to devotion , and were more readily seen than the Bibles , which were also on display in every church . |
| 6 | As the trial was a comparison of two systems of care the prompted care group subjects could be referred through the system to hospital outpatients , while the hospital clinic group patients could consult their general practitioner for diabetes related reasons . |
| 7 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 8 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
| 9 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 10 | Arthur de la Mare observed on 29 June 1946 that a situation had arisen which could , without exaggeration , be regarded as a menace to world peace . |
| 11 | Heresy becomes a social solecism , a self-declared exile , as the personal history of Protestant converts amply proves : George Borrow 's Bible peddling was regarded as a threat to society itself or an incomprehensible eccentricity . |
| 12 | Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment . |
| 13 | The stringent exclusion criteria in trials of antithrombotic therapy ensured that less than 10% of those with AF were actually considered suitable for randomisation , and in one study , being over 75 was itself regarded as a contraindication to anticoagulation until later into the enrolment phase . |
| 14 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 15 | Diem , once the main hope , was regarded as an obstacle to improvement . |
| 16 | Particularly in the House of Representatives , constituency service is regarded as the key to re-election and arguably , as a consequence of their single-minded pursuit of this strategy , almost all incumbents seeking re-election to the House are successful . |
| 17 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 18 | certainly in a far worse position than any other English claimant alleging erm any of the courses of action which are permitted as an exception to section fourteen |
| 19 | In Pepper v. Hart , Lord Browne-Wilkinson stated that ‘ … reference to parliamentary material should be permitted as an aid to construction of legislation which is ambiguous or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity ’ and subsequently carefully established the ambiguity in the statutory provision in issue before relying on parliamentary material as an aid to its construction . |
| 20 | Social Security Commissioners , ex parte Morris , reported as an appendix to Commissioner 's Decision R(A) 5/83 ) . |
| 21 | The exponential growth in CMEA debt ( from $6 billion in 1970 to $58.3 billion in 1981 ) has come as a shock to borrower and lender alike . |
| 22 | Costs previously carried as a contribution to woodland maintenance , heritage and amenity will no longer be borne as owners seek to comply with the new requirements . |
| 23 | It would seem that perhaps browsing at the shelves should not be considered as an alternative to catalogue use ; instead browsing support at the catalogue could bee seen as perhaps improving retrieval effectiveness at the shelves by providing direction or orientation through navigational aids . |
| 24 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
| 25 | Police said : ‘ He has been reported with a view to prosecution . ’ |
| 26 | Messages should be sent separately , direct to the central office group/sector/person addressed with a copy to Head of Area Staff . |
| 27 | My consideration of difference originated in a turn to history in order to repudiate one such theory — specifically , that which construed homosexuality as an embrace of the same because of a fear of the different . |
| 28 | ( These outcomes had already appeared in draft outline in the earlier Guidelines , but were now modified and revised following the response to consultation . ) |
| 29 | Pyrolysis — the imposition of high temperatures upon material in the absence of oxygen — is often presented as an alternative to incineration . |
| 30 | In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service . |