Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 2 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |
| 3 | Fortunately , after a visit to hospital he was found not to have picked up any poison . |
| 4 | This court had the advantage , denied to the previous court , of a reference to Government of the United States of America v. Bowe [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 500 . |
| 5 | On the other hand , closure of a feature to tourism for conservation purposes is undesirable , because it defeats the purpose of conservation which is its preservation for future generations . |
| 6 | Treasury bills , bills of exchange , bankers acceptances and commercial paper are the most important examples of money market securities that are quoted on a discount basis , i.e. that are sold on the basis of a discount to par . |
| 7 | The refined chassis is complemented by advanced suspension damping system which reacts in one five thousandth of a second to information from six sensors within the car , ensuring the perfect balance of comfort and security whatever the driving conditions . |
| 8 | An alternative means of finding the constant coefficients A i in the partial fraction expansion of equation ( 11.36 ) emerges upon multiplying through that equation by the factor ( ) to give which reveals that Although this relation is not immediately helpful because the factor ( ) is zero when , it must be appreciated that G(s) here is the ratio , , of a numerator to denominator polynomial in s in which where Q(s) is another polynomial in s . |
| 9 | They are often more of a blockage to communication than a channel . |
| 10 | Many of these patients need close daily supervision because of a tendency to self-neglect and poor compliance with medication ; they are often closely dependent on staff for day-to-day emotional support . |
| 11 | Here 's Darwin saying in a letter to a friend Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression and indeed , Darwin 's view was the contrary to this , and here 's another quote from Darwin , after long reflection , I can not avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to development exists . |
| 12 | For example , regarding prostitutes , the most crucially sexualized women of the time , questions were asked concerning the size of their genitalia , and various medical projects were embarked upon to prove that an enlarged clitoris was a sign of a tendency to prostitution ( in the same way that phrenologists were measuring criminals ' heads ) . |
| 13 | In either case , it is issued and dealt in the primary and secondary markets on the basis of a yield to maturity , which is usually expressed in basis points . |
| 14 | The fact that many non specialist teachers will have experience of a change to enquiry methods in their own specialist subject area is acknowledged as being of considerable value . |
| 15 | Thereafter , the caretaker was his man , glad of a chance to finger ‘ that man ’ who had moved in with his girlfriend on the eighth floor . |
| 16 | In chapter X of A Preface to Paradise Lost ( London : Oxford University Press , 1942 ) , C. S. Lewis gave a summary list of doctrines of the Fall of Man common to Milton , to St Augustine , and to ‘ the Church as a whole ’ . |
| 17 | One of this year 's debutantes , Primrose was pretty but still far too much of a schoolgirl to interest Aubrey . |
| 18 | The chroniclers report the campaigns in muted terms , and give little impression of a will to war amongst either the nobility or the community generally . |
| 19 | Because of this , suffering is less of a threat to happiness , while it spells death to the pleasure-seeking life . |
| 20 | The industry seems to think that Novell is now as much of a threat to Sun as the Open Software Foundation was . |
| 21 | The right-wing daily Nowy Swiat on April 9 claimed that contingency plans to introduce martial law in Poland in the case of a threat to security had been elaborated by the President 's staff . |
| 22 | It was , Harry says , something of a shock to life a flowerpot and be confronted by the toad 's baleful stare . |
| 23 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 24 | For example , Starbuck ( 1982 ) states that rarely is there a neat sequence of events through from recognition of a problem to definition of the problem , generating possible actions , selection of the appropriate option and implementation . |
| 25 | If rest and relaxation are purely passive — from flopping in front of a TV to meditation on emptying the mind — we are no longer in control of what enters our minds or unconscious . |
| 26 | It will be something of a surprise to cricket lovers in the ‘ Strong Country ’ if Mark Nicholas 's team does n't go close again in either the Benson and Hedges or the NatWest , and the advice is to have a little saver on both eventualities ( 20–1 with Surrey for the Benson & Hedges and 14–1 with Chandler for the NatWest ) . |
| 27 | The installation of these CFC-free units is just part of a drive to phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants at head office |
| 28 | For Kaelin the initial resistance of a work to analysis , along with the way in which this gives way to a richer post-analytic experience , can also be used as a means of assessing its value . |
| 29 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 30 | For those who might be interested in such peculiarities it can be recorded that this book was written entirely on aeroplanes in the course of a trip to North America : London to New York ( British Airways flight 177 ) ; New York to Los Angeles ( American Airlines flight 3 ) ; Los Angeles to Toronto ( Air Canada flight 792 ) ; Toronto to Edmonton ( Air Canada flight 613 ) ; Edmonton to London via Toronto ( Air Canada flights 126 and 856 ) . |