Example sentences of "to gain [noun sg] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Ashton , a Labour MP , narrowly failed to gain election to the Wednesday board . |
| 2 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 3 | Dust , grit , and ‘ wee beasties ’ seem to be able to gain admission to the vestibule of the inhaler through the open top of the canister housing , even though the safety cap has been religiously applied . |
| 4 | Reminiscent of the peak days of Studio 54 , the Serpentine Gallery was mobbed by a large audience struggling to gain admission to the opening night of Robert Gober 's exhibition ( to 25 April ) . |
| 5 | But to be able to do this the contractors needed to gain admission to the Russia Company and Gould played his part in the attack on the company . |
| 6 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 7 | So-called biometric security devices such as finger scanners are considered safer ; they check finger prints to authenticate a person 's identity before it is possible to gain entry to the system ( Ernsberger , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | He attended schools in Bishop Auckland , Gainford , and Glasgow , after which his family connections helped him to gain entry to the music-hall , as a ‘ boy ’ comedian . |
| 9 | The thieves smashed down doors and broke open hardened-steel padlocks to gain entry to the Redoubt Fort , in Harwich , only to discover nothing of value inside . |
| 10 | where force is not used to gain entry to the Home ; |
| 11 | In some cases it may be difficult to gain entry to the channel unless the product is somehow differentiated by way of uniqueness or lower price than those products already established in the channel . |
| 12 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 13 | It is as if the inner mind structure presents a predetermined pattern to the sense organ , through the brain and sensory/motor nervous system , and only that input which relates to the inward pattern is able to gain entry to the creature 's world of subjective experience . |
| 14 | From time to time the problem program will wish to gain entry to the supervisor in a controlled manner , for example to request that a transput operation be performed . |
| 15 | When we offer advice , seek support for our ideas or seek to gain commitment to a course of action we are attempting to persuade . |
| 16 | An identifier which must be supplied to gain access to a module if the user does not have the necessary privileges . |
| 17 | The precocious meddler actually managed to gain access to a computer used by Grumman to handle military customers including the Pentagon , police said . |
| 18 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 19 | They may instead become increasingly determined to gain access to a school in a nearby LEA with a ‘ better class ’ of pupil , irrespective of how well that school is doing for its intake . |
| 20 | The easiest place for a burglar to gain access to a house is through patio doors . |
| 21 | Some researchers have been able to make use of their own skills to gain access to a group . |
| 22 | RIP-OFF : Why do I have to pay 20p to gain access to a car boot sale ? |
| 23 | To gain access to a LIFESPAN Process , the user simply executes this command file . |
| 24 | It was difficult for married women to achieve a substantial basic retirement pension record within the state pension scheme and to gain access to an employer 's pension scheme . |
| 25 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 26 | I need to gain access to the space under the floor . |
| 27 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 28 | The above is intended to indicate the fairly small amounts of formaldehyde likely to gain access to the air in an embalming theatre , never-the-less we are very aware of the potential hazard of the gas and advise our members accordingly . |
| 29 | To destroy the cottage in order to gain access to the road was desirable . |
| 30 | The locals knew that the trough was traversed at regular intervals by natural rock bridges showing just above the mud Over the centuries , millions of rip tides had worn away the softer sandstone , leaving the harder rock strata a convenient , if slippery way for the knowing locals to gain access to the sands . |