Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In four out of the five authorities studied in depth by the research team , ‘ the provision of a statement appeared in the majority of cases to coincide with a decision to transfer a child to a special school ’ . |
| 2 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 3 | Accession is the traditional method whereby a non-signatory becomes a party to a treaty . |
| 4 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 5 | ‘ The pretense that the constant repetition of a few words constitutes a story becomes an insult to the child 's intelligence ’ ( ibid , p.221 ) . |
| 6 | The origin of the term biotechnology arose from the gradual emergence of the microbiological industries as a genre offering an alternative to applying conventional chemistry . |
| 7 | Mr. Beloff submitted that there is no basis for the implication of a term to create an exception to the prohibition contained in the injunction to the effect of ‘ otherwise than pursuant to a section 39 notice . ’ |
| 8 | In essence the result of this change was to ensure that when a contractor made a payment to a sub-contractor holding a tax certificate issued by the Inland Revenue , the sub-contractor could be paid in full . |
| 9 | There is nothing more frustrating for a President to issue an order to a Cabinet officer , and then find that , when the order gets out in the field , it is totally mutilated . ’ |
| 10 | Where a defendant sends a document to the plaintiff instead of to the court , the plaintiff is required to send it to the court straight away . |
| 11 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ How would such a confirmation make a difference to you ? ’ |
| 13 | From January 1990 the maximum rate of income tax for private individuals and businesses was cut to 35 per cent in a bid to give a boost to the stock exchange and investment ; the new simplified system was also intended to reduce tax evasion . |
| 14 | An emergency meeting has been called for clubs leasing stretches of the Macclesfield Canal in a bid to find a solution to an increasing mink problem . |
| 15 | At one point a gangster tortures a copy to the bouncy accompaniment of the old Stealer 's Wheel song ‘ Stuck In The Middle With You ’ . |
| 16 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 17 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 18 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 19 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 20 | We can see him very clearly following this method in his only other surviving letter on a question involving a reference to Canon Law written in Rufus 's reign . |
| 21 | The group also discussed a plan to make a trip to York to see a needlework exhibition which will feature the Duchess of York 's wedding dress . |
| 22 | Every time a coach gives a lesson to a 5 or 6 year old child , he has to believe that he is giving a lesson to a future Wimbledon champion . |
| 23 | In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute . |
| 24 | It is a battle demanding an end to foreign domination of the Arab World and its resources , and an end to the illegitimate political and economic order in the region , imposed by outside forces . |
| 25 | From the high-stemmed poop of a Genoese cog , a boy sang a hymn to the Virgin in thanksgiving for the change in the weather whilst sailors in a Greek galley chanted their prayer for mercy : ‘ Kyrie Eleison , Christe Eleison , Kyrie Eleison . ’ |
| 26 | Four of the same name in a Test remains a record to this day , as does the ludicrous fact that three of the players making their debuts for their country in the match had already played Test cricket , but under different colours . |
| 27 | Already making her way around the house , she came to the front and asked a footman to carry a message to Rose Alderley . |
| 28 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 29 | I went I said gas shell drop close to me and that that gave me a bit of a right to go an d to the hospital . |
| 30 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |