Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 32 | The senior team 's rebuilding period was over and they once again looked a force to be reckoned with . |
| 33 | Nicholson himself has clearly not considered a return to the saddle , remarking : ‘ There is not enough brandy in France to get me up again . ’ |
| 34 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 35 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 36 | Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches . |
| 37 | This must be considered a bonus to the food resources available to any larger creatures . |
| 38 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 39 | At any rate we were informed that the Chief Whip had carried a document to the sick Prime Minister showing the majority preference . |
| 40 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 41 | Had the boys boarded a train to Carlisle and caused damage there , this might have been regarded as too remote . |
| 42 | Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid . |
| 43 | He did n't go to Spain , instead he had booked a ticket to London , that was as far as he wanted to go . |
| 44 | I phoned the squadron at their base and immediately booked a flight to Halifax NS . |
| 45 | The Tory campaign in this ward had begun by placing emphasis on everything that was deemed a threat to the mortgaged bliss of privatised nuclear family-life — gypsies , black muggers , Bernie Grant , the Lesbian and Gay Unit . |
| 46 | On the one hand , there would appear to have been Jesus 's own aristocratic and royal pedigree , which , as we have discussed , Herod , as a usurper , deemed a threat to his legitimacy . |
| 47 | It could ( in theory at least ) have recommended a return to the eighteenth century position , illustrated by the Lord Chief Justice when he expressed hope that ‘ the worst of the offending sections ’ in Acts of Parliament be repealed or amended . |
| 48 | On the other hand , people naturally expected a return to prewar " normality " — prewar living standards , the old way of life , and elements , at least , of the old political system . |
| 49 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 50 | They had scarcely addressed a word to her but from behind her barrier of quiet she observed them closely . |
| 51 | Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter . |
| 52 | On Sept. 10 Gorbachev had addressed a telegram to all republican , regional and local leaderships calling on them to take action to prevent a collapse of law and order . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The government 's latest programme also included an end to the indexation of wages to inflation , and a cut in the average import tariff from 22 per cent to 9.4 per cent , designed to improve the productivity and competitiveness of local industry . |
| 55 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 56 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 57 | But what if , when the testator had instituted an heir to a share , he then wrote ‘ I ask , Lucius Titius , that for your share you be content with 100 gold pieces ’ ? |
| 58 | Indeed , Silicon Graphics is understood to have added an instruction to the Mips architecture for TFP , allowing multiplication and addition functions to be performed in a single batch rather than as separate operations , speeding floating point throughput . |
| 59 | Their comprehensive examination of the likely social and economic impact of microelectronics technology concluded that with computerisation there had come an end to the creation of jobs in services and a standstill in the industrial labour force , the only industrial jobs created from now being in small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 60 | A wildlife rescue centre has cancelled an invitation to Princess Michael of Kent because she hunts . |