Example sentences of "[noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each of us , keeping our risks to a minimum is dependent on what we do and not how we identify ourselves . |
| 2 | They may , of course , be wrong , and will then lose money , but market research is supposed to reduce the financial risks to a minimum . |
| 3 | The Scrutiny Committee ( the Joint Select Committee on Statutory Instruments ) , latest in a line of successors to a House of Commons select committee first appointed in 1944 , is a committee of 14 ( 7 MPs and 7 peers ) , any 2 of whom constitute a quorum . |
| 4 | A Model to Link Personality Characteristics to a Preference for Science |
| 5 | These figures were put in perspective by a report from Lowell Observatory in Arizona to a meeting , in Boston . |
| 6 | The common law provided a form of self-help remedy to a person harmed by straying livestock by way of distress damage feasant . |
| 7 | Very simply by giving the remedy to a group of healthy people in a carefully controlled and closely monitored fashion . |
| 8 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 9 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 10 | They sang Jesus songs to a guitar and sought converts . |
| 11 | Finally , the investigators will seek to enhance the utility of the approach by eliciting the reactions of a group of interested scientists and policymakers to a range of different methods for presenting co-word findings . |
| 12 | The inquiry follows objections by Teesdale District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way sub-committee to allow the plan . |
| 13 | The inquiry was prompted by objections from Teesside District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way subcommittee to allow the diversion . |
| 14 | Lyons ( 1977a : 669 ) inclines to a view that , since place-deictic terms like this and that can be used in a temporal sense ( especially to refer to proximal and distal parts of an unfolding discourse ) , place deixis is more fundamental than time deixis . |
| 15 | ‘ To keep the break-ins to a minimum , I suppose , ’ said Hatchard drily . |
| 16 | This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration . |
| 17 | One dealer at a London based sharedealing outfit was selling an unknown oil and gas stock to a client who replied : " I work in the oil industry myself , and these speculative situations , I know can go badly wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 19 | Among these , a pertinent example is Claudius Rey , a weaver , who in 1719 contributed along with Defoe to a debate relating to the importation of calico . |
| 20 | A draw was a fair result to a hard-fought , sporting contest . |
| 21 | Consequently , you must assign the result to a variable . |
| 22 | The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived . |
| 23 | A farewell card to a secretary seemed innocent enough . |
| 24 | Fitting a sound card to a PC is not a difficult task — we 've covered the installation of expansion cards enough for anyone to be able to do it , and the Laserwave Plus is no exception . |
| 25 | He crushed the card to a ball in one hand . |
| 26 | It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network . |
| 27 | Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person 's weight . |
| 28 | Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery . |
| 29 | Since she was capable of loving so deeply , she can still , if she chooses , remain in the business of giving and receiving love for as long as she lives , for although she may feel that she is no longer everything to anyone , she can still mean a great deal to a number of people . |
| 30 | He swerved the jeep to a halt in the village square , under a plane tree to keep it as cool as possible in the midday heat . |