Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At return visits to the clinic women are questioned by a doctor or a nurse and the information recorded on a special form , including details of pregnancies and their outcome , changes in contraceptive practices , and reasons for referral to hospital .
2 By defining poverty as starvation and destitution , he was able to claim that not many people in Britain are poor and that those who argue the case for improvements to welfare provision , ‘ the poverty lobby and the media ’ , are really intent on furthering their socialist aims through calling Western material capitalism a failure .
3 The group presented a cheque for £2,800 to TV celebrity Paul Frost for the meningitis research unit at Southampton at their charity dance on Thursday .
4 The group presented a cheque for £2,800 to TV celebrity Paul Frost for the meningitis research unit at Southampton at their charity dance on Thursday .
5 For information on practitioners of Chinese medicine ( who are also acupuncturists ) , send a cheque for £2 to Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine , 19 Trinity Road , London N2 8JJ ( 081–883 8431 ) .
6 COMMANDER Fabian Malbon , skipper of HMS Invincible , yesterday handed over a cheque for £1,250 to cancer victim Janet Murray , right , at a Kent nursing home .
7 Plea for incentives to quality produce
8 Is it a convention of the Constitution that the government of the day must consult with interested bodies before formulating a legislative measure for presentation to Parliament ?
9 But damages awarded by juries in libel cases for injury to reputation are ‘ at large ’ and only subject to the general guidance by judges and limited powers for the Court of Appeal to correct those that are excessive .
10 The college in question identified a number of emblematic companies operating in commercial/industrial sectors in which the college had corresponding courses ranging from engineering and electronics through marketing to beauty therapy and graphic design .
11 As far as the residence requirements were concerned , the Commission considered that , as it stated in its communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas ( Official Journal 1989 No .
12 The Commission 's communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas ( Official Journal 1989 No .
13 The Commission communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas was not appropriate to resolve that conflict , because it did not tackle the problem of the effective exploitation of the catch quotas allocated to the member states .
14 The Commission points out that , in is communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas ( Official Journal 1989 No .
15 Working class women 's groups and the Workers ' Birth Control Group , formed in 1924 , which played a major part in the struggle for access to birth control information , also found it impossible to ignore the maternalist framework in their campaign .
16 In 1977 I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for services to West Country television .
17 The Essex University sports award dinner at the Embassy Suite saw Adrian Chew , assistant coach and vice captain of the University Fencing Club , presented with the award for services to University fencing .
18 On a lighter vein , congratulations to Jim thorn , head groundsman at Wimbledon for nine years , until his retirement at the age of 65 last July , on winning the 1991 award for Services to Lawn Tennis , presented annually by the Lawn Tennis Writers Association .
19 welcomed everyone with the news that had been awarded a GL&SE Sports Council Award for Services to Sport , in the category of ‘ Raising Standards of Performance ’ for her work with the National Display Team .
20 Personal ornaments , including jade buttons of floral design , bracelets , pendants , hair-pins and ear-rings , emphasised still further the link between access to jade and high official status .
21 The new features in Version 5.5 include a ‘ what you see is what you get ’ preview facility and extends its support for fonts to dot matrix printers .
22 Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on .
23 The " Out " tray held two manila files , the top labelled " Chapel — Proposals for transfer to Department of the Environment , and the second , a large , old and unwieldy file which had been much mended , was marked " New Laboratory — Commissioning " .
24 An increase in the incubation time did not change plating efficiencies ( data not shown ) and plateau values for adhesion to type IV collagen varied between 80% and 85% of total cells seeded .
25 The necessity for submission to greatness had now come to be placed in stark opposition to a scholarly pluralism .
26 The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 .
27 Requests for adaptations to classroom lighting or for individual lamps can not sensibly be made until the principles are understood .
28 The increasingly open texture of regulation ( Atiyah , 1985 ) , already analysed by Neumann in the 1930s ( Neumann , 1985 ) , allows wider discretion to , and purposive interpretation by , the administration and the courts who turn — in a selective way — to the views of those subject to these rules as guides to decision-making .
29 ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me .
30 The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast between adaptation to convention and rebellion .
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