Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
| 2 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
| 3 | for short ) gives rise naturally to a partition . |
| 4 | GERMANS in East and West reacted with disappointment and scepticism yesterday to a promise by the East German leaders to talk about change . |
| 5 | A bat may appear suddenly out of the dark close to a moth . |
| 6 | He gathered his great weight neatly to a point against Fred 's sickly-looking chest , said ‘ Serve you right ’ in a cheery tone under the roar of the music-hall audience and shoved away , grounding delicately at the foot of the Forum steps and watching his partner with one eye . |
| 7 | Even twelve months ago , the issue was the political flavour of the month , of real concern and anxiety only to a half , a handful of parliamentarians and a bar full of lobby correspondents . |
| 8 | Sorry , boys , but the PM has PM T. Here is a woman who gave her five-year-old child away to a stranger in a pub for two barley stouts . |
| 9 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 10 | A variety of modes of transmission are provided for : the diplomatic channel ; communication to the ministry of justice or other relevant authority of the state of destination , or to a particular tribunal in that state , directly by the tribunal in the state of origin ; such communication via a diplomatic or consular agent ; by a diplomatic or consular agent of the state of origin directly to a national of that state ; by an agent appointed by the tribunal in the state of origin ; by an agent appointed by a party to the proceedings . |
| 11 | Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two . |
| 12 | I am disappointed the policy review has adopted such a negative attitude both to a Bill of Rights and electoral reform . |
| 13 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 14 | I refer the Minister to his reference earlier to a scheme in Salford , where my constituency is . |
| 15 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 16 | FOREIGN ministers of the European Community lent enthusiastic support yesterday to a Commission plan to give Poland and Hungary food and financial aid worth $215m ( £140m ) , together with loans worth up to £700m . |
| 17 | Once every six months the Profitboss takes his team away to a hotel for a two- or three-day residential workshop , perhaps from a Thursday to Saturday . |
| 18 | According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations . |
| 19 | None the less these had been sufficient to bring the war almost to a stop . |
| 20 | He was ashamed of going to their usual practitioner , and went some distance away to a physician in Westminster , stepping past the beggars who lay about the pavement , demanding alms . |
| 21 | This cafe on Glabbeeck main street was a wartime home to a family of Nazi sympathizers . |
| 22 | But South Africa 's joy was marred when paceman Pringle was admitted to hospital after fracturing a bone close to an eye . |
| 23 | And a solid defence has kept Derry 's challenge alive in the tightest finish ever to a League of Ireland season . |
| 24 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 25 | City Hall has raised local taxation almost to an art-form over the past 20 years — not least , to plug the gaps left by a fall since the early 1980s in the share of spending covered by grants from state and federal sources . |
| 26 | McPhee ( 48 ) told the trial that he had given the dog away to a man he knew vaguely outside the track as Shiloh was no use to him . |
| 27 | As I lay flat on the grass close to a tree the blood from the Officer 's wound had stained the grass a dull red colour . |
| 28 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 29 | Oct-11 binds sequence specifically to an octamer motif in vitro |
| 30 | As predicted from the high sequence homology of Oct-11 with Oct-1 and Oct-2 , Oct-11 can bind sequence specifically to an octamer site in vitro ( Figure 3 ) . |