Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to project one 's mind to a subsequent sale where the receipt has to be produced , but one can visualise difficulty where the solicitor for a purchaser objects to the receipt and refuses to settle until a receipt in conformity with the Form provided is produced . |
| 2 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 4 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 5 | Brat Packers like Keifer Sutherland are in a sense rebels to the cause . |
| 6 | The night raids were almost non-stop , with Mosquitoes sometimes carrying out two sorties in a night thanks to the quick re-arming and re-fuelling at bases such as Marham , Upwood and Bourn . |
| 7 | She hated school and left at sixteen to go and train in a riding stables to be an instructor . |
| 8 | When her mother is convalescing , the novelty of spending her days in a dressing-room appeals to Jane Austen : ‘ I always feel so much more elegant in it than in the parlour . |