Example sentences of "[noun] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 2 | Shelley sold tender love songs to an audience bent on destruction and revenge . |
| 3 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 4 | The ICE Conditions of Contract entitle the contractor to an extension of time if any of a number of specified events delays the works . |
| 5 | However , events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs . |
| 6 | The process is one of envisioning on paper and then transferring the result to an Apple Macintosh computer system . |
| 7 | The reader may think that the result is already known , but all too often different populations behave in different ways so that although there may be an expected result to an investigation it will not be a foregone conclusion . |
| 8 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 9 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 10 | If there was a " consumer revolution " in eighteenth-century England , it must have owed a very great deal to an improvement in road transport which , according to one writer , allowed " our very carriages to travel with almost winged expedition " . |
| 11 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 12 | What is lacking , however , is the political will in government to bring torture to an end . |
| 13 | Any partner 's death will bring the partnership to an end . |
| 14 | During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible . |
| 15 | A reversion was the grant of the right of succession to an office , made during the lifetime and tenancy of an existing holder . |
| 16 | In 1659 Martin received the survivance ( legal succession to an office , nominated before the death of the existing holder ) of his father 's position at the court of Louis XIV of ‘ hautbois et musette du roy dans sa grande Ecurie ’ . |
| 17 | The leak took place in a " hot cell " , used for treating highly radioactive waste , during a switch to an emergency power system while the main power was shut down during construction work . |
| 18 | Thus a member of Lautro upon whom an intervention notice is served is in much the same position as a defendant to an action at law against whom an ex parte injunction is obtained . |
| 19 | Where a defendant to an action claims against any person not already a party , contribution or indemnity , or some relief , remedy , or settlement of an issue connected with the subject matter of the action , he must proceed by way of a third party notice ( N 15 ) . |
| 20 | The literary judgement contained in the phrase ‘ almost embarrassing success ’ is offered in another way when the author , writing this time under his real name of J. I. M. Stewart , led his readers to an understanding of a super-hero , spy and adventurer whose exploits were made possible because he had retained the boyhood characteristics nourished by a certain area of reading . |
| 21 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 22 | These patients have been referred by their General Practitioner to an Outpatient Clinic at the hospital because of symptoms or problems they have developed . |
| 23 | As the loss to an owner-occupier was economic loss , the courts sidestepped the problems this presented by framing the duty in terms of not constructing a building which was a danger to the health and safety of the occupier ( Anns v Merton London Borough Council [ 1978 ] AC 728 ) . |
| 24 | Ex.g shows the prelude to an arioso in G minor which portrays the arrival of the sea-goddess Thetis , Achilles ' mother . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , he soon realized , she saw her Pernod as a prelude to an evening somewhere else . |
| 26 | It is always difficult to set the bounds to an industry — to determine where one industry 's activities end and another industry 's activities begin . |
| 27 | The bridge at Goring is long and narrow ; there are two spans to an island in the middle ; one side is Streatley , the other Goring . |
| 28 | The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer . |
| 29 | What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate . |
| 30 | Relocation to an area which presented the right company image together with good facilities for employees could ease the problem . |