Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most reports of his single handed massacre of the Aussies sheepishly admitted he had been ‘ written off as major force ’ consigned to a bit part on cricket 's international stage . |
| 2 | The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement , Will among them . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the Christmas term 1990 , the staff of the Modern Languages Department were invited to a buffet dinner in Crescent House by Professor Noel Thomas , who was retiring after some 25 years as a member — and for much of that period a key member — of the Department . |
| 4 | ANNE 'S CATHEDRAL , BELFAST PRIOR TO A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR VISCOUNT BROOKBOROUGH , FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND . |
| 5 | And Lydney , the only other club with a realistic chance of snatching the one promotion place available for next season 's new-look National Division Four , tumbled to a shock defeat at home to Southend . |
| 6 | These groups have transformed the process of policy-making from rather closed networks of autonomous groups composed of members of the legislature , the executive and groups associated with the iron triangle' imagery ( referring to a stable set of relationships between a small number of powerful groups , federal agencies and Congressional committees ) to a fluid set of issue networks ' , in which ‘ a large number of participants with quite variable degrees of mutual commitment … move in and out of the networks constantly ’ . |
| 7 | The following summer was devoted to a walking tour in North Wales , during which he climbed Snowdon to watch the sun rise — an experience , like his crossing of the Alps , destined to inspire some of the most celebrated poetry in The Prelude . |
| 8 | She was disentitled to a redundancy payment by section 82(1) of the 1978 Act , which denied redundancy payment to women aged 60 or more . |
| 9 | Later , for a whole scene in Fritz Lang 's film You Only Live Once you find your eyes flitting from a closeup of jailbird Henry Fonda to a dancing hank of fluff stuck in the projector gate . |
| 10 | The Green Revolution in Latin America has led to a Kulak path of development . |
| 11 | In April last year a worker was told to take bottles to a handling bay for disposal . |
| 12 | ( 7 ) On remitting a case to a licensing board under subsection ( 6 ) above , the sheriff may : ( a ) specify a date by which the rehearing by the board must take place ; modify any procedural steps which otherwise would be required in relation to the matter by or under any enactment ; and any decision of a licensing board on any such case shall be valid as if reached at a quarterly meeting as mentioned in section 4(1) ( a ) of this Act . |
| 13 | Bangkok has a rapidly expanding elephant population due to a government ban on logging . |
| 14 | During December the Indonesian government reported the surrender of large groups of East Timorese rebels in response to a government offer of clemency . |
| 15 | By an arrangement between father and son , a disentailment could be effected ; but not so as to alienate the fee ; rather to reduce the son 's interest to a life estate in remainder , with remainder to his issue successively in tail . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most striking have been the experiments that show that the presence of the neutral weak interaction in addition to the electromagnetic interaction does indeed lead to a parity violation in electron proton scattering and in certain transitions in heavy atoms . |
| 17 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 18 | They apply to different communities , they have responded to different communities ' needs but they also contribute to a ripple effect of achievement at national and international levels which will ultimately benefit the lives of many more children . |
| 19 | You 've had to go to a specialist engineer in support of your case and to argue your case , and you 're still arguing over it . |
| 20 | Pray that we will be directed to a specialist counsellor in occult activities . |
| 21 | It corresponds to a wave front of light from the star that just fails to escape to infinity but remains hovering at the Schwarzschild radius : 2 GM/c , where G is Newton 's constant of gravity , M is the mass of the star , and c is the velocity of light . |
| 22 | There was no dramatic switch to a materialist paradigm in science ; materialistic and holistic/vitalistic philosophies both survived the transition to a more experimental approach to the study of life , at least temporarily . |
| 23 | Note that we can not eradicate the modifier " pragmatically given " in these definitions : an utterance of ( 71 ) may have quite different implications of precision if said to a crane operator in contrast to a fellow surgeon . |
| 24 | The defendant , a bankrupt , was charged with obtaining property by deception , contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 by providing false information to a building society in order to obtain a mortgage . |
| 25 | I eventually solved the problem by two small blobs of hot stick glue which temporarily glued the component to a scrap piece of wood , dimensioned so that the component overhung the scrap all around . |
| 26 | Pin the angled offcuts from the legs on to a scrap piece of wood to make an excellent cradle for planing and also for clamping blocks . |
| 27 | A computer hacker is a person who gains access to a computer system without permission . |
| 28 | Use in soups or stews or add to a storage jar of sugar . |
| 29 | Any money paid by a customer to a Travel Agent in respect of a booking for a holiday in this brochure is held on behalf of the customer until the date on which we despatch our confirmation of your holiday booking . |
| 30 | ‘ The Beat poets invite you to a press conference at noon , at the Albert Memorial ; if raining , inside the Memorial . ’ |