Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 A further possibility , where this is available , is to arrange for the patient to attend a psychiatric unit as a day patient .
2 It is better for the patient to use a shallow cup rather than a deeper mug , partly to prevent an excessive fluid intake , and partly because he may have difficulty in judging the depth of a mug and so may tend to spill his drink .
3 Indeed , many forms of treatment by hypnosis do not call for the patient to utter a word .
4 It is better by far for the patient to have a week or so in which to mull over all that has occurred and everything he or she has learnt about the past .
5 Alternatively , the draftsman may dispense with a timetable for the rent review , and dispense with the requirement for the landlord to serve a rent review notice in order to exercise the right to review the rent .
6 It may be extremely difficult for the landlord to resist a claim by a person at the premises who suffers injury as a result of the landlord 's default and who was not a party to the lease .
7 By a notice of appeal dated 25 November 1991 , and pursuant to the grant of leave to appeal out of time , the plaintiff appealed on the grounds that the judge erred in law in holding that ( 1 ) the defendant was at 24 December 1989 a residential occupier within the meaning of section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 and a statutory tenant within section 2 of the Rent Act 1977 ; and ( 2 ) once a possession order had been obtained against a statutory tenant it was necessary for the landlord to obtain a warrant of possession .
8 A power for the mortgagee to appoint a receiver who will collect the rents and profits is also now implied in mortgages by deed .
9 The Yellow Book also requires the approval of shareholders for certain transactions and it may be necessary for the contract to have a gap between exchange and completion .
10 It is usual for the hotel to have a cancellation deadline usually four weeks before the expected arrival date .
11 ‘ This is a way forward for the museum to offer a wider range of access points into the nation 's science and technology , ’ Professor Durant said .
12 ‘ Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away , ’ the father said , grinning .
13 Inhabitants of the stricken city taking refuge in adjacent parts of Lower Franconia , where many had relatives , asked ‘ how it was possible for the Führer to allow a systematic destruction of our German Fatherland ’ .
14 To establish immunity it would be necessary for the valuer to show a " formulated dispute " ( see 15.5 ) had been put to him to resolve in a judicial manner ; or , in other words , that he had been an arbitrator .
15 It would be possible for the village to have a community shop and part time post office .
16 Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued .
17 And , to render this possible , it was essential for the state to provide a basic platform of entitlements .
18 The next step is for the lessor to make a court application to obtain an order for possession .
19 In these conditions it is vital for the pilot to have a hand close to the release , ready to pull it if the need arises .
20 The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane .
21 ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’
22 Will he further accept that service men are looking for the opportunity to obtain a rung on the ownership ladder and that the Housing Corporation and its satellite housing associations can most assuredly provide that ?
23 I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief contribution to the early stages of what will probably be the longest general election campaign in modern times .
24 I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few points about the environment .
25 Praise God for the opportunity to have a ministry of this nature , church-based and in the heart of community life .
26 ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . )
27 Of course , many software companies make express provision for the user to make a back-up copy .
28 Moreover , in their anxiety to forge an alliance with the bourgeoisie and their blindness to the revolutionary potential of the peasantry , they were willing for the proletariat to accept a position of subordination to liberal bourgeois leadership .
29 King and Williams observed in laboratory experiments that , in addition to the break point bar , there is the tendency for the swash to form a second bar at its upper limit .
30 When the Drama sub-committees of the Schools Council English Panel were presented with a proposition from Lynn McGregor , a London teacher with a strong interest in the sociology of education and her own research into Drama teaching on its way ( 1976 ) , to launch a full-scale research project , the climate seemed ripe for the subcommittee to make a recommendation .
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