Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common law provided a form of self-help remedy to a person harmed by straying livestock by way of distress damage feasant . |
| 2 | Very simply by giving the remedy to a group of healthy people in a carefully controlled and closely monitored fashion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | A draw was a fair result to a hard-fought , sporting contest . |
| 10 | Consequently , you must assign the result to a variable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A farewell card to a secretary seemed innocent enough . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He crushed the card to a ball in one hand . |
| 15 | It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network . |
| 16 | Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person 's weight . |
| 17 | Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Adam had slammed the Jeep to a stop before the helicopter was on its back . |
| 21 | Effecting an entry , this is called , and a job for Slim Jim , the flexible steel ruler owned by every mechanic and car thief , which , shoved down the side of the driver 's door glass , will open anything from a Jeep to a Jaguar . |
| 22 | Every afternoon Salah drove us in his jeep to a spring in the desert where he sat in the shade of the palm trees eating watermelon and smoking hashish while we swam . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've no taste for playing gooseberry to a couple of lovebirds , I assure you . |
| 24 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 25 | The Quad-FX will also serve to boost under-powered effects loops ; drive four preamps or combos from one guitar without signal loss ; add gain boost to a guitar ; cross-feed and combine other signals into your setup for monitoring ( ideal for mixing in tapes , CD players or drum machines to your amp , either for solo performance or rehearsal ) . |
| 26 | At the same time , using retaliatory import tariffs and other protective measures , the Dutch government was able to give something of a boost to a number of Dutch industries which had previously been weak or languishing . |
| 27 | The festivities to mark the occasion on the weekend of 5 and 6 December were attended by museum directors from around the world , a valuable boost to a city which is only now emerging from the destruction of World War II and the Communist austerities which followed . |
| 28 | If he ca n't understand a man 's obliga-tion to a friend , how can he understand a man 's love for a woman ? |
| 29 | Most operators have therefore reduced their labour force to a core of general port operatives who are required to perform a wide variety of tasks , supplemented as and when needed by a periphery of temporary , casual or contract labour . |
| 30 | In 1905 the Unemployed Workman Act gave statutory force to a scheme inaugurated the previous year by Walter Lang , the President of the Local Government Board , under which a Central Executive Committee founded a Central Employment Exchange . |