Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police investigating the IRA firebomb blitz at the Gateshead MetroCentre ten days ago say they are pleased by the response to a weekend appeal to shoppers for information . |
| 2 | Such attempts have usually been based on the notion that the response to a stimulus presented in , say , the left visual field , should be quicker from the left hand than from the right . |
| 3 | Because each treatment occurs once and only once in each block , the response to a treatment averaged over the blocks is a valid measure of the effect of that treatment ( and , less important , the block averages are valid measures of the block effects ) . |
| 4 | The CD industry might provide 230 jobs in Swindon , but judging by the response to a poll on local radio , most people would like to see prices lowered . |
| 5 | For that matter it is disconcerting how often the response to a call for advice and help on resource-based and discovery learning is a series of formal lectures , and how the Library-College movement in the USA has typically propounded its ideas by " lectures against the lecture " ! |
| 6 | An incredible example of the attitude in London can be seen in the response to a request from practitioners that they , like anybody else in the land , should become subscribing members of the College . |
| 7 | If so , then the response to a question about job satisfaction will be in these terms . |
| 8 | If an announcement has been prepared then the response to a leak should be more effective than in the event of having to deal with the situation at short notice . |
| 9 | At present the income to a forester/ farmer was 25% from the forest and 75% from the farm . |
| 10 | The activated silica is prepared by the addition to a solution containing 1.5–1.8% sodium silicate of an acid to bring the pH down to 5 . |
| 11 | Confused , she agreed , and wrote a letter confessing the weakness to a friend outside , asking her not to tell the stonyhearts at Suffragette Headquarters . |
| 12 | We can send the remainder to a sale-room . ’ |
| 13 | The architects duly made economies , although they were dismayed that these had to include the reduction to a dwarf wall of the high wall intended for the street side of the car park because they felt that the omission of a high wall at this point would detract from the character of Rotherhithe Street . |
| 14 | Mash the avocado to a pulp and stir in the oils . |
| 15 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 16 | The royal couple then went their separate ways the prince to a business seminar and the princess to a department store promotion of British goods . |
| 17 | Following the failure of militarisation and a sequence of abortive attempts at political reform , the British reverted in the mid-1970s to a policy based the ‘ primacy of the police ’ . |
| 18 | This marks their first exchange of vows , which is reiterated when Lise pretends to harness Colas by the ribbons to a trap of which she is the driver . |
| 19 | His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience , disobedience , sin and doom . |
| 20 | The implications for the tribunal system of the change to a system of benefit based on entitlement seems to have been overlooked . |
| 21 | allocating the change to a member of the Computer Group , scheduling the work , and monitoring the progress of approved changes . |
| 22 | Because the change to a hunting society was , in evolutionary terms , a sudden one and because the human id was not adapted for it ( on the contrary , the id was , and has remained , that of a gelada-like forager ) only drastic changes in the ego — and in particular the emergence of the superego — could deal with it . |
| 23 | The change to a republic is said to have the backing of most Australians . |
| 24 | His heart began to thump with apprehension as he brought the bike to a halt outside the drive gates to the big house . |
| 25 | At about ten to nine I tethered the bike to a lamp-post and proceeded at a leisurely pace on foot to the Parsons ' . |
| 26 | The brewer must now extract these sugars by adding more hot water and so transfers the mash to a mash-tun . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) . |
| 28 | Rural districts showed more support for the Polish Peasant Party , which was the successor to a party formerly allied with the Communists , than for the post-Solidarity party , Peasant Accord . |
| 29 | ( 5 ) The duty imposed by subsection ( 2 ) above in relation to a preference expressed in accordance with arrangements made under subsection ( 1 ) above shall apply also in relation to — ( a ) any application for the admission to a school maintained by a local education authority of a child who is not in the area of the authority ; and … [ ( 6 ) A local education authority shall , if so requested by the governors of an aided or special agreement school maintained by the authority , make arrangements with the governors in respect of the admission of pupils to the school for preserving the character of the school ; and the terms of any such arrangement shall , in default of agreements between the authority and the governors , be determined by the Secretary of State . ] |
| 30 | ‘ For the purposes of section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 ( which excludes the duty to comply with a parent 's preference as to the school at which education is to be provided for his child if compliance with the preference would prejudice the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources ) , no such prejudice shall be taken to arise from the admission to a school in any school year of a number of pupils in any relevant age group which does not exceed [ the number so to be admitted ] . |