Example sentences of "[noun] to a [noun] " 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 HP envisages an on-site upgrade path that requires only a processor swap going , for example , from a 40 to a 50 and a chassis upgrade going from , an F to a G. The F class which HP has poised against Sun reportedly starts at 36 tpsA ; the next performance point is 61 tpcA , available as an F or H , then 88 TPS , followed by 110 tpsA topping out at 184 tpsA .
15 Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law .
16 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 .
17 ‘ To keep the break-ins to a minimum , I suppose , ’ said Hatchard drily .
18 This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration .
19 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 .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 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 .
22 A draw was a fair result to a hard-fought , sporting contest .
23 Consequently , you must assign the result to a variable .
24 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 .
25 A farewell card to a secretary seemed innocent enough .
26 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 .
27 He crushed the card to a ball in one hand .
28 It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network .
29 Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person 's weight .
30 Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery .
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