Example sentences of "of a [noun] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of a type belonging to a general class of the later sixth and seventh centuries on the Continent , with drop-handles and tripod rings , are known from the Kentish sites of Coombe , Gilton , Faversham , Sarre and Ash . |
| 2 | I often draw in pencil , adding watercolour washes , but I also like to use the wrong end of a brush sharpened to a wedge . |
| 3 | The killings took place within 300 metres of a road leading to a UNITA confinement area . |
| 4 | With the development of computerised registers of stolen art work and specialised magazines reporting thefts , one of the conditions to be met is to have consulted such sources ( of course the legal relevance of a register depends to a certain extent on the diligence of the dispossessed owner in reporting the theft ) . |
| 5 | ‘ As a man of the Church , I must object , ’ stated a portly cleric in the bombastic tones of a man accustomed to a respectful , if not enthusiastic , audience . |
| 6 | Doubt and faith , though , are related only because of the nature of things after the Fall ( like the unhealthy relationship of a leech clinging to a body ) . |
| 7 | A picture of a skin handcuffed to a policeman showed the message ‘ Made in London ’ tattooed fairly and squarely on his forehead , his face screwed up and two fingers raised to the camera . |
| 8 | If large numbers of animals are to be killed a euthanasia chamber can be used consisting of a container linked to a cylinder of carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | Fifteen minutes later , Ashley heard the sound of a vehicle drawing to a halt on the unmade road at the front of the house . |
| 10 | It follows that for the alterations to a four bedroomed bungalow to include any necessary enlargement of a bathroom come to a figure which I allow of twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 11 | The computers are accessed by means of a modem linked to a PC and a telephone line . |
| 12 | It should be noted that the lifecycle of a module subscribing to a defined process model is in parallel with not instead of the normal DC controlled lifecycle . |
| 13 | For one team 's desperate desire to establish its worth in the scrums , Toks has had to play the price of a life confined to a wheelchair , a need for 24-hour-a-day attendants , and an almost total loss of his business and social aspirations . |
| 14 | Subject of course to the wording of the particular statutory provisions , those general observations are as pertinent to the case of a security granted to a bank by an unregistered company as to a security granted by a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 15 | There are , however , cases which are hard to explain in this way , ; examples are the ability of a rat to find a submerged support , and of a goby to leap to a pool it can not see . |
| 16 | Failure to take formal action under the relevant legislation or unjustifiable delay in doing so , in respect of obnoxious odours which amount to a statutory nuisance or for breach of a condition attached to a site licence for waste disposal , may be deemed to amount to maladministration if they cause injustice such as injury to health or depreciation in the value of property . |
| 17 | comparison of the stability of a product made to a modified formula with that of the original product |
| 18 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 19 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
| 20 | The blast tore a hole in the wall of a bridge leading to a nature reserve . |
| 21 | Though classically it was the light of day which showed a painter the deepest flaws in his handiwork , Gentle worked best at night ; the instincts of a lover brought to a simpler art . |
| 22 | [ As a ] professional leadership group , organically structured and hierarchical , the behaviour and thought of the Communist Party of Brazil leadership corresponds with their situation as a social category and their political nature as leadership apparats of a party belonging to a particular current of the international workers ' movement . |
| 23 | Secondly , its appearance is less attractive than an unbound book , which carries the original dust jacket intact ( though there are still a handful of traditionalists or binding fetishists who prefer the appearance of a library binding to a laminated dust jacket ) . |
| 24 | Naomi 's question is would it be also would it also be in bad taste if an a if that were a picture of an animal subjected to a sort of humiliation ? |
| 25 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 26 | Nor had he wanted to have recourse to the services of an Astropath belonging to a pious and loyal fraternal organization . |