Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially true when he gave an impromptu lecture on the nature of matter in 1844 — the story is that Charles Wheatstone panicked and fled , leaving it to Faraday as chairman to satisfy the audience — and another on ray-vibrations in 1846 . |
| 2 | Acknowledgements : We thank the Fundaccon de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya for support to visit the University of Bilbao and the SERC for supporting some of this research . |
| 3 | Our next plan is to go for endowment to stop the roller coaster ride we 've gone on with the city ’ . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Loss of status through inability to complete an apprenticeship ( Dunk v George Waller & Son Ltd [ 1970 ] 2 QB 163 ) . |
| 5 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 6 | Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ? |
| 7 | The Royal Observatory of Edinburgh has applied for funding to develop the system for use with patients . |
| 8 | All that remains is for Zenith to make a stuff of this one as well . |
| 9 | Six years later , the band reformed as Hilt to make a record , the result being ‘ Ambulance ’ . |
| 10 | Six years later , the band reformed as Hilt to make a record , the result being ‘ Ambulance ’ . |
| 11 | It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather . |
| 12 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 13 | His findings produced a lively press response , and questions in the House of Commons , and certainly contributed to the passage of a bill through Parliament to limit the availability of such films . |
| 14 | SCO has arranged for Chorus to do the bulk of the packaging and development work with SCO Open Desktop as the front end . |
| 15 | The hardline Russian Unity faction called for parliament to declare the president 's powers suspended with immediate effect . |
| 16 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 17 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 18 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 19 | Sergei Yushenkov , a leading democrat in the Russian parliament , guesses that , for less than $10m , you could bribe enough deputies to resign , making it impossible for parliament to form a quorum and thus forcing a general election : a small price to pay for removing a big obstacle to reform . |
| 20 | It is for Parliament to warrant the expenditure estimated to be needed , i.e. to grant supply . |
| 21 | Here again , it seems to me that there is not only an opportunity but a necessity for Parliament to give the problem its urgent attention . |
| 22 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 23 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 24 | Society will then be ready for Parliament to cut the power of the judges . |
| 25 | The decisive step had been taken , however , and the unworkability of the Homicide Act 1957 was still relatively fresh in legislative memory when the time came for Parliament to consider the continuation of abolition . |
| 26 | What is needed is for Parliament to amend the Act so that it explains exactly how far the rule-making powers go . |
| 27 | Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain . |
| 28 | John Howard , of 15 Hawkswood , Hurworth , has applied to Darlington borough council for permission to prune an oak tree . |
| 29 | The artillery Colonel asked for permission to return the fire , but the Prince ordered him to wait till the enemy infantry was in sight . |
| 30 | Exwaste , a company owned by Essex County Council , applied for permission to move the site gatehouse , install a weighbridge and wheel washing facility , use the former Topmix offices on Warren Lane and use parking and vehicle maintenance facilities at the site . |