Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |
| 2 | Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village 's own housing scheme . |
| 3 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
| 4 | A YEAR ago a gaunt Joseph Cicippio walked gingerly down aircraft steps to a hero 's welcome on American soil . |
| 5 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 6 | This introduces further elements to a society 's culture , and so to the potential bases for inter-cultural , and hence spatial , variations . |
| 7 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 8 | These assumptions and beliefs are learned responses to a group 's problems of survival in its external environment and its problems of internal integration . |
| 9 | In addition , lack of word boundary information and of acoustic cues to a word 's identity created very large word lattices . |
| 10 | The cues to a phoneme 's identity also vary depending on its context . |
| 11 | Like father , like daughter , she guessed — but then had she not herself devoted her days to a father 's needs ? |
| 12 | In short , the whole debate about the relative contributions to a child 's intelligence of upbringing and genetics is still wide open . |
| 13 | In a separate study of 17,000 Harvard graduates in 1986 it was determined that moderate exercise could add up to two years to a person 's life . |
| 14 | The one up there , amidst trees and mountains , where they winters are long and lonely and do strange things to a man 's mind . |
| 15 | An indirect reference : It is unkind to make allusions to a person 's physical defects . |
| 16 | In the cavernous exhibition hall , more than 300 salesmen offered everything from reproduction Gatling guns to a Barrett 82A , a semi-automatic rifle with a range of almost a mile — ‘ as used by three countries in Operation Desert Storm . ’ |
| 17 | As one recent treatise on business ethics put it , ‘ If in some instance it turns out that what is ethical leads to a company 's demise , so be it . ’ |
| 18 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 19 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 20 | When the inputs to a perceptron s0 , s1 , … sN can only be 1 or 0 , then the possible inputs that it can be shown are the corners of an N-dimensional cube . |
| 21 | There 's a host of factors of that kind which in fact kept the er conflicts to a minimum i in terms of their extent , in terms of the , the damage they did . |
| 22 | It was clear then , and has become clearer since , that the risk of a borrower defaulting is just one — albeit the most important — of many threats to a bank 's solvency . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Equality is not itself a curriculum aim ; yet no curriculum that actually sets limits to a child 's future can be acceptable . |
| 25 | It has been held that payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( p 101 ) . |
| 26 | Earlier this year , Mr Justice Morrit decided that certain payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 27 | It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 . |
| 28 | As with Building Regulations , changes in the Wiring Regulations are not retrospective and are intended for new installations , but substantial additions or alterations to a house 's wiring may mean making changes to an existing installation . |
| 29 | Manual searches of their large and continually growing personnel registers for matches to a customer 's specific requirements was becoming uneconomic due to its labour intensity . |
| 30 | Next door , in the mirror of the basement cloakroom of Canon Wheeler 's house , Julia made the final adjustments to a maid 's uniform . |