Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] to an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach also provides no explanation or key to an explanation as to why , for example , awards of damages in the United States of America tend to be dramatically higher in personal injuries cases than in England . |
| 2 | Preferably no order should be placed without a formal document or reference to an order number . |
| 3 | 23.2 Should no settlement of disputes or differences be achieved by negotiation , the Parties shall submit their dispute or difference to an arbitration tribunal before bringing this dispute before a court of law , provided that arbitration is not contrary to the imperative law of the country whose law is applicable . |
| 4 | Problems arise where consent to an assignment or agreement to novation is sought but is refused . |
| 5 | It may not appoint a legal guardian for the child or consent to an adoption order or an order freeing the child for adoption or providing for his adoption abroad ( s33(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 6 | Hopefully , however , the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th will bring this dreary little phase or cycle to an end and many a Leo will be moving in , moving out and putting down new roots elsewhere . |
| 7 | We studied 36 women ( mean ( SD ) age 30.8 ( 8.2 ) years ) who presented with oligomenorrhoea , amenorrhoea , infertility , or galactorrhoea to an endocrine or infertility clinic over two years and who had a plasma prolactin concentration of 1000–8000 mU/l ( normal range 80–460 mU/l ) . |
| 8 | It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained . |
| 9 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 10 | What has surprised me , and is different from my understanding of processes as they were in the middle 1970s when I last worked in and on North Shields , is the centrality of land and development to an understanding of that place . |
| 11 | The union fears that the Government intends to link merit pay and promotion to an appraisal scheme , and believes that instead it should be used to improve professional skills . |
| 12 | Dec. 20 : in a statement to the Congress of People 's Deputies Shevardnadze announced his resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister , warning of a drift to a new dictatorship and the danger of conservative forces bringing the policies of glasnost and perestroika to an end [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 13 | In spite of its violent assaults on the female image , Surrealism 's emphatic anti-academicism and dedication to an art of the interior struck a sympathetic chord in a repressive era when women were demanding the right to work and vote . |
| 14 | Again , if like Peter , Jesus was likening conditions on earth at the time of His promised return and judgment to an event which was only myth or legend then the ‘ blessed hope ’ would be reduced to ‘ no hope ’ . |
| 15 | But they relegate their consideration of ‘ race ’ and class to an appendix , and collapse the two together . |
| 16 | But groups , and crowds , are capable of abnegation , unselfishness and devotion to an ideal ; people may have their ethical conduct raised by belonging to a group . |
| 17 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |