Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school , and as apprentice to his father . |
| 2 | The pressure for change to which intellectuals were subjecting the government was perhaps best illustrated by the fact that on the right of the political spectrum even Mikhail Pogodin , the philosopher of Official Nationality , fell out with the authorities in the course of the war . |
| 3 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | Although it is not certain that property qualifications were required for liverymen , several companies are known to have imposed minima for admission to their freedom . |
| 5 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 6 | Charlie never talked about money to me . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear girl , you 'd have thought him very ill-bred if he 'd talked about money to you , and even if he had , you would n't have understood the relevance of what he was saying , any more than he understands how well off we are . |
| 8 | This handy little tool comes in its own olive green nylon case with loop for attachment to your waist belt or kit bag . |
| 9 | Eva attributes her education and training for officership to her mother 's self giving and determination . |
| 10 | In 1866 he was allowed to use the arms of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria , as photographer to Her Majesty . |
| 11 | IRAN yesterday demanded the extradition of demonstrators who ransacked several of its embassies on Sunday , including the mission in London , and said it would claim compensation from Western governments for damage to its property . |
| 12 | The occupier accepts no liability for injuries suffered by visitors or for damage to their property . " |
| 13 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 14 | Liability for damage to which this Agreement relates . |
| 15 | For this reason a non-occupier can not maintain a claim in nuisance and an occupier 's right to damages for his personal injuries is ancillary to his claim for compensation for damage to his property . |
| 16 | During the building of Cat Bank £3 was paid to Thomas Barrow for damage to his adjoining land , but it was Joseph Barrow who was paid £5 : 13s. : 9d. for land taken to widen the road from the Black Bull Inn to the fell gate — in all 273 yards at 5d . |
| 17 | Following a consumer deal in which the consumer bought a hot bottle direct from the manufacturer , the consumer may claim for damage to his bed after the bottle burst . |
| 18 | Our Appointed Repairers Scheme is designed to supplement this inspection service and if you live in an area covered by the Scheme and you intend to make a claim under the policy for damage to your motor car we suggest that you consult one of our Appointed Repairers who will offer you the following advantages should they carry out the repair : — |
| 19 | ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep . |
| 20 | Begin to look for route to his home in A-Z . |
| 21 | The practitioner works as the officer of the organisation to test for entitlement to its services , perhaps using functional assessment methods . |
| 22 | It would provide a reminder that the impact of Government policies on business should be taken into account before they are implemented , not left until afterwards , when the choice could be between damage to our competitiveness and a damaging climb-down by the Government . |
| 23 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 24 | On May 12 , 1990 , Guinea launched an international appeal for aid to its citizens living near the Liberian border in the south , whose food supplies had been depleted by the arrival of Liberian refugees since the outbreak of civil war in Liberia in December 1989 . |
| 25 | Mark you start talking about hygiene to me dear whenever you pass your basic hygiene test . |
| 26 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 27 | On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda . |
| 28 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 29 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 30 | Perhaps the clearest of all criteria of a true profession is the requirement of some systematic training for entry to it . |