Example sentences of "to a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the other tests described in this appendix , the child is required to select , by gesture or eye pointing , one of two pictures in response to a sentence spoken by the examiner . |
| 2 | This pavement is of a similar style to a mosaic found on the site of the Victoria Inn , Colchester ( pI . |
| 3 | The dry lands of the Middle East and North Africa are under acute pressure from short-term economic development , according to a seminar co-sponsored by the World Bank held in Aleppo , Syria . |
| 4 | The task took some considerable time as each bone was labelled according to a blueprint held by the archaeologist . |
| 5 | When the United Nations Organization was created in June 1945 , Spain was debarred , thanks to a proposal made by the Mexican delegation to the effect that countries whose regimes had been assisted by anti-democratic states should be excluded from membership . |
| 6 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 7 | For example , a person offering a service must carry it out in a proper and workmanlike way , or to a standard agreed with the customer . |
| 8 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 9 | The department co-operates with Oxford Brookes University in teaching a new Master 's course in Historic Conservation ; the course is modular in form , and part of it entitles students to a certificate awarded by the department . |
| 10 | Some 39 per cent of the population of Slovakia is opposed to the continued construction of nuclear power plants in the republic , according to a poll conducted by the Slovak Academy of Sciences ; 31 percent of respondents were in favour of construction , while 30 percent had no view . |
| 11 | For the Queen to refuse her assent to a measure passed by the two Houses of Parliament would draw her into the realms of political controversy , hence jeopardizing the claim of the monarch to be " above politics . " |
| 12 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 13 | She submitted that the law built up through custom and practice appeared to have had no difficulty in affording to a child born after the death of its parent a right of action over the death . |
| 14 | They say that once having used miscue analysis , they internalise its approach , and never listen to a child read in the same way again . |
| 15 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 16 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 17 | ( 12 ) Where the reasons stated in a notice under this rule relate specifically to matters which ( a ) refer to a person identified in the notice other than the member in question ; and ( b ) are in the opinion of the board prejudicial to that person in any office or employment , the board shall , unless they consider it impracticable to do so , serve a copy of the notice on that person . |
| 18 | At the hearing before us it was conceded , in answer to a question put by the court , that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 19 | By section 2(8) a statement by a person in response to a requirement imposed under the section may only be used in evidence against him in proceedings for making a false or misleading statement or in proceedings for some other offence where in giving evidence he makes an inconsistent statement . |
| 20 | My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today . |
| 21 | Mr. Armitage [ junior counsel for the plaintiff ] suggested that clause ( b ) applies only to a mistake made by the officials in the Registry and not to a mistake made or induced by one or other of the parties . |
| 22 | Since that determination went against advice from the Medicines Commission , Upjohn invoked the right , rarely exercised , to present its case to a panel appointed by the Licensing Authority under the 1968 Act . |
| 23 | Describing his photograph , Mr Ashdown said : ‘ He is one in a row of 150 , crammed six rows to a cattle shed in the baking Bosnian heat . |
| 24 | We convert the data to a quantity related to the power spectrum at the present epoch , the fractional variance in density per ln k ( refs 20 , 21 ) |
| 25 | Also used to refer to a quantity produced above the number of copies ordered . |
| 26 | Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule arranged by the laboratory , standardized as to place and , as far as possible , time . |
| 27 | Mortensen was the captain of a Norwegian trawler charged with illegal trawl fishing in waters within the Moray Firth contrary to a bye-law made by the Fishery Board for Scotland under s. 7 of the Herring Fishery ( Scotland ) Act 1889 . |
| 28 | Staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital were justifiably angry last week after being asked to make donations to a charity based at the hospital . |
| 29 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 30 | In England in 1985 , according to a survey conducted for the DES , there were approximately 43,500 students in further education with special educational needs , as defined in the Warnock Report . |