Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 2 | Seamus Hegarty 's Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools gives an introduction to the field of special needs as a whole , whilst Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs and John Sayer 's Secondary Schools for All ? address issues more specifically concerned with primary and secondary schools respectively . |
| 3 | The fact that the requirements are those of central government rather than those initiated by individual schools makes a difference to the process of development . |
| 4 | The rich variety of geographical environments provides a background to the diversity of ways of life and traditions of the Yugoslav peoples . |
| 5 | The reason it is important to share feelings is that the sharing of emotions gives an insight to the fabric and function of the filter . |
| 6 | However , correlation of the verbal instructions on no.7 with those of other movements enables a tempo to be estimated for that movement . |
| 7 | Romaine 's extension of the quantitative methods of sociolinguistics to the study of variation in relative clause marking in sixteenth-century written texts suggests an approach to the relationship between variation and change different from any we have discussed so far ( Romaine 1982b ) . |
| 8 | This concession by Customs follows an amendment to the Building Regulations on kitchen and bathroom ventilation and fire safety . |
| 9 | The thought of such treasures disappearing into private collections brings a sigh to Serena Kelly , secretary-general of the Business Archives Council . |
| 10 | Second , the comparison with nazi ideas provides a guide to the influence of Hitler on British racial nationalism . |
| 11 | The Food Irradiation Network has written to all EC food ministers pointing out that the lack of appropriate testing arrangements and labelling provisions constitutes a threat to consumer choice . |
| 12 | The blend of a varied and ancient culture with a modern economy based on technological innovation which characterises Japan and Japanese Studies has an appeal to students with a wide range of interests . |
| 13 | Simply to say that postnominal attributives are reduced relatives gives an answer to neither of our questions ( p. 43 ) . |
| 14 | Somewhere between these two questions lurks an answer to the puzzle of Saddam Hussein . |
| 15 | Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier . |
| 16 | It can be argued that the successful development of such techniques requires an adherence to semantic theory from both the computational and linguistic perspective , to provide a sound theoretical framework . |
| 17 | However , the present government 's stance on market forces makes a return to interventionist regional planning unlikely . |
| 18 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |
| 19 | It would offend both common sense and justice to hold that the very control which enables such people to extract the company 's assets constitutes a defence to a charge of theft from the company . |
| 20 | She has a life of her own outside the kitchen , for she is compiling ‘ Five Thousand and One Witty and Humorous Sayings ’ , and on most afternoons gives an hour to unravelling her material . |
| 21 | A comparison of the success rates of related items in written tests provides a guide to difficulty factors . |
| 22 | It is widely accepted , if not empirically demonstrated , that the prospect of widening regional imbalances poses a threat to economic and monetary union . |
| 23 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
| 24 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 25 | Caterers are most likely to come into contact with industrial tribunals if one of their past or present employees refers a matter to the tribunal with regard to his or her contract of employment . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the incongruence of rRNA-based phylogenies with molecular trees derived from elongation factors or DNA-dependent RNA polymerases presents a challenge to molecular evolutionists . |