Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 2 | All the traditional proofs of his existence , Kant argued , ultimately involve an appeal to the ontological argument . |
| 3 | Nevertheless in a statement released on Aug. 23 the United States embassy in Beijing said it was " deeply disturbed " by news of the hunger strike , and urged the government to grant an amnesty to all political prisoners . |
| 4 | The seven-member committee — dubbed the " God Squad " because of its power to override the Endangered Species Act — will have about six months to decide whether to grant an exemption to the provisions of the Act and permit logging to resume on 4,750 acres in 44 tracts owned by the Bureau of Land Management . |
| 5 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 6 | He proposed an approach to the principled description of such contexts which bears a close resemblance to more recent descriptions which we shall go on to examine : |
| 7 | He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988 . |
| 8 | The Teulon family was of Huguenot origin and retained an allegiance to this French connection ; Samuel Sanders and his brother William Milford ( also an architect ) became directors of the French Hospital in south Hackney , London . |
| 9 | ‘ One could n't trust an animal to Weenie . ’ |
| 10 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 11 | If someone is finding words burdensome he may need an introduction to the prayer of quiet or the Jesus Prayer . |
| 12 | The latter is designed to encourage the horse to avoid hitting fences by applying an irritant to its legs . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , little love , ’ he breathed , and while from his adoring tone she knew herself forgiven , ‘ I — do n't know quite how to tell you this — ’ He paused , but , clearly deciding that there was only one way , he proceeded to completely stagger her when , ‘ It is a fact , my dear , that I did not , and never have , promised an interview to your sister , or to anyone else representing Verity magazine . ’ |
| 14 | He promised an end to serfdom , reform of landholdings and an extension of the suffrage , a programme which in turn alienated an important part of the Magyar gentry and rendered them much more favourably disposed to suspending national demands in favour of outside intervention to protect existing social relationships . |
| 15 | Food Reform promised an end to sickness if certain procedures were followed , a promise that was not , of course , fulfilled . |
| 16 | On May 16 Buyoya announced a Unity Charter which promised an end to military rule by the end of 1990 , a political referendum and restoration of the Constitution . |
| 17 | Sampaio , the PS secretary-general since 1989 , had presented the PS under his leadership as representing an alternative to the centre-right policies of the PSD in spite of the easy cohabitation of President Mário Soares , a former PS leader , with the PSD government . |
| 18 | In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the Labour government , but not a major one . |
| 19 | Because he was so old and feeble , Baxter 's imprisonment attracted a great deal of sympathy from many people , and was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 20 | He was becoming an embarrassment to the Government . |
| 21 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 22 | The censure motion accused Pascal-Trouillot of financial incompetence , corruption , nepotism and failure to combat the country 's chronic lawlessness , and of becoming an obstacle to the electoral process . |
| 23 | Sadly resigned to the change from three divisions to two , Dr. Leadbetter drew an analogy to a three-legged stool and pondered on the future stability of his establishment . |
| 24 | It is obvious that we should have talks but I am not willing to be told that the talks can only take place at one location and I am not willing to accept an invitation to a slanging match . |
| 25 | For the purposes of the Code and SARs , these include any rights acquired by a person by virtue of an agreement to purchase shares , or an option to acquire shares , or an irrevocable undertaking to accept an offer to be made to him . |
| 26 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 27 | I propose to introduce the term social psychoanalysis to designate an approach to applied psychoanalysis which takes this methodological position and which therefore explains , not merely that childhood makes man , but that , because of the facts of cultural evolution briefly summarized in these pages , man makes childhood . |
| 28 | The meetings themselves should include an introduction to the topic under discussion and a summary of the main points . |
| 29 | The handbook will include an introduction to the broad economic and administrative history of the period and then a summary of the contents of specific classes of records , in particular those of the Cabinet Office , HM Treasury and the Board of Trade . |
| 30 | The demand must include an explanation to the debtor of the purpose of it and the fact that if he does not comply with it , bankruptcy proceedings may be commenced against him , the time within which and the methods of compliance and the right to apply to the court for the demand to be set aside . |