Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | in a Cabinet reshuffle on June 29 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong relinquished the Defence portfolio to Yeo Ning Hong , hitherto Second Minister for Defence and Minister for Communications . |
| 2 | The interim government which would replace the IJC was to be headed by Rabbani , and a number of portfolios were allocated to various groups , including the premiership to Hekmatyar and the Defence portfolio to Masud . |
| 3 | Yes , it is clear that , as my hon. Friend says , Labour would cut the defence budget to ribbons . |
| 4 | An attempt by liberal Democrat Bill Bradley to waive the rules of the previous year 's budget agreement in order to transfer 2 per cent of the defence budget to additional domestic spending was defeated by 73 votes to 22 . |
| 5 | The defence expenditure to which the hon. Gentleman referred has considerable benefits for the scientific world and for British industry . |
| 6 | They should remind their opposite numbers that their own parliamentarians — the French , Germans , and Italians — all subscribed to the view that the defence issue to which I referred should not be brought within the European Community . |
| 7 | TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury . |
| 8 | The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production . |
| 9 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's concern , which is shared by my Department , but I do not think that on reflection he would want the defence industry to be singled out for particular treatment from our other manufacturing industries . |
| 10 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 11 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 12 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 13 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 14 | But how is the income reduction to be achieved ? |
| 15 | The market price of an asset is simply the present value of the income stream to which it entitles the owner . |
| 16 | In the morning there is a centimetre of ice on the tent pole to the side of my head , probably from my breath while I slept . |
| 17 | Linkage of the addition reaction to the molecular mechanism of catalysis therefore depends on demonstration of sequence specificity . |
| 18 | The marginal cost curve for films shows the opportunity cost to private producers of the resources they employ to make films rather than meals . |
| 19 | If the state can relate the manifesto of the majority party to policies which emerge from negotiation between interest groups , then these policies can claim to represent both the consensus of individual electors and views of organized pressure groups . |
| 20 | From the present findings , described later , it is clear that some theses are quite widely consulted , and the majority lead to the formal publication of research results in journals and books which , presumably , reach a wider readership . |
| 21 | Indeed the contingency approach to organisations would argue that , depending upon the dominant activity , an organisation should consist of different sub-cultures reflecting different activities . |
| 22 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |
| 23 | The last time Ben had taken her there — on the quiet ; it was to be a secret Annie had done the clog dance to Ben 's playing his tin whistle . |
| 24 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 25 | Stephen Moore also provided the guitar accompaniment to the songs . |
| 26 | The control panel has a 4-band EQ including a brilliance control for extra sparkle and a phase reversal switch to match the guitar sound to the room it 's being played in . |
| 27 | USAID officials said that further , but as yet unconcluded , agreements with three other countries eligible for debt relief — Côte d'Ivoire , Niger and Uganda — would extend the reduction package to US$745,000,000 ( out of total sub-Saharan African debts to the US government of US$6,600 million ) . |
| 28 | Hence , increasing the calcium concentration to 75 and 225 µmol/g mimics a supplementing the human diet with 25 and 100 mmol/day , respectively . |
| 29 | Walk across the terrace from the Birthplace Museum to the Conservatory , which you will find packed with many of the tropical plants which Cook and his botanist , Sir Joseph Banks would have seen on their voyages . |
| 30 | Trim the drip bar to length , leaving a 2mm gap either side . |