Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the delegates to the 15th meeting of parties to the Antarctic Treaty , the main topic of discussion over the next 10 days will be the status of an agreement — the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities — which collapsed in the summer after the French and Australian governments decided , in consultation with each other , to withdraw their support . |
| 2 | Sabrina zipped up her anorak as she stepped out into the cold night air and rummaged in her pockets for the keys to the Audi Coupe . |
| 3 | As he edged past the dustbins he reached in his pocket for the keys to the Mercedes . |
| 4 | Miguel smoothed back his hair over his ears , put on the dark glasses , and reached for the keys to the jeep . |
| 5 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 6 | However , despite the teacher 's independent authority to discipline pupils , the test laid down in the case of R v Rahman by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane for the limits to a parent 's right to detain his/her child probably offers a guide to teachers . |
| 7 | It follows that for the alterations to a four bedroomed bungalow to include any necessary enlargement of a bathroom come to a figure which I allow of twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 8 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 9 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 10 | The trial judge sensibly obtained the agreement of counsel for the defendants to the case proceeding on the basis of defined issues . |
| 11 | The unique ‘ Passport to Amsterdam ’ booklet giving a host of useful information for travellers to Holland and specifically for the visitors to the Dutch Capital . |
| 12 | Henry 1 granted the charter for the fairs to the Augustinian canons at Nostell Priory in 1100 . |
| 13 | For his part , the franchisee makes a payment to the franchisor for the rights to a particular area and a royalty based upon sales expressed as a percentage of sales . |
| 14 | IMPERIAL Chemical Industries seems to have struck a surprisingly good $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson and Merck in swapping its US over-the counter pharmaceutical business for the rights to an established anti-depressant drug and a substantial , if as yet unquantified , cash sum . |
| 15 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 16 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 17 | In ones and twos they jumped or fell from upper windows , some to death or injury and surrender ; others , more fortunate , were still fit to make a run for the woodlands to the north . |
| 18 | They dug it up when they was making the trench for the pipes to the new vehicle examination extension . |
| 19 | He moved to Belfast East , was elected MP at the Westminster elections of February and October , 1974 , and remained there for the elections to the Constitutional Convention . |
| 20 | Under such an arrangement the electoral system in East Germany would have been that used in March for the elections to the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament — see pp. 37300-02 ) . |
| 21 | With all the results now known for the elections to the General Synod of the Church of England , supporters say they expect the Church to agree to the ordination of women in the next few years . |
| 22 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 23 | De Niro 's other appointments have included : as designer , a friend of a production aide , whose normal line of work is women 's wear ; as site manager , a former Disney executive ; and as architect ( 20 were interviewed ) , the relatively unknown Lo-yi Chan , whose inexperience was blamed by some for the renovations to the Martinson building going $350,000 over budget . |
| 24 | Besides providing homes for the newcomers to the city , these estates have been occupied by people moving out of the old city centre and out of some of the older terraced houses . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) The provisions of section 68 of this Act shall apply to any remises or place in respect of which an occasional permission is granted as they apply to licensed premises , with the substitution of references to the holder of the permission for the references to the holder of a licence . |
| 26 | But there was concern that , since ‘ it is by no means uncommon for the parties to a fragile marriage to separate and come together again in quick succession on a number of occasions , this would force the courts to enquire into the precise situation at the time of the rape . ’ |
| 27 | During the visits to the flat , the student fully expected to establish a relationship with John . |
| 28 | Although the Second Duma saw a small increase in the number of right-wing deputies , more striking was the decline in the number of Kadet deputies and the advance of the extreme Left , including Social Democrats and SRs who had decided to abandon the electoral boycott they had staged during the elections to the First Duma . |
| 29 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
| 30 | National Insurance reforms ( such as the modifications to the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme — SERPS ) were therefore introduced as part of a broader review of the Welfare State in 1985/86 , with the intention of reducing the cost to the state and the taxpayer ( see Ch. 16 ) . |