Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person 's weight . |
| 2 | He is hired to move bales of cloth from a warehouse to a seamstress ' workshop a few streets away . |
| 3 | Headhunting 1960s-style tended to make consultants feel conspiratorial , shady and slightly suspect even if , like Young , they were wholly convinced of the ultimate value of executive search to a company 's efficiency and performance . |
| 4 | In pharmaceuticals , in telecommunications , in papermaking , the traditional sequence of research , development , manufacturing , and marketing , is being replaced by syn-chrony : specialists from all these functions work together as a team , from the inception of research to a product 's establishment in the market . |
| 5 | You can even leave your complete holiday arrangements to us : anything from a short break to a fortnight 's package . |
| 6 | Mines and submarines now posed a potent peril to an enemy 's ships , and the Germans , conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea , at first resolved to deploy these rather than risk a major naval battle . |
| 7 | Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa . |
| 8 | The nearest attempt to a child 's entitlement expressed by adults on their behalf lies in the United Nations Charter . |
| 9 | Very similar in practice to a lay-abbot 's was the position of a secular cleric ( that is , a man in holy orders , often a deacon or sub-deacon , and not a member of the monastic community ) appointed to an important abbacy . |
| 10 | Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course . |
| 11 | It may also , however , particularly in the situation under discussion , be another factor obstructing the doctor even if he were to desire to give effect to a patient 's wishes . |
| 12 | It is also the key to a Pandora 's Box of problems over rights and copyright . |
| 13 | A degree is no longer the magic key to a lifetime 's well-paid security . |
| 14 | He points at the official entrance to a snake 's residence . |
| 15 | I liken this action to a cat 's attention-seeking display ( though in the Oscar 's case food is the motivator as they are always hungry ) . |
| 16 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 17 | He wrote a detailed set of observations — an entire territory , as it were , under his eye as a jewel to a watchmaker 's glass . |
| 18 | For example an advance factory programme should ideally be measured by additional benefit to a region 's economy , but in practice intermediate measures such as jobs created may be used instead ( National Audit Office , 1986b , para. 13 ) . |
| 19 | He also attacked Brian Walsh , the chairman , whom he called ‘ a clever dick ’ , a somewhat foolhardy reference to a Queen 's Counsel . |
| 20 | Today the word ‘ box ’ can mean anything from a development bank — Al Sandook Al Naqd ( ‘ the box of money ’ , translated literally ) — to a reference to a Sheikh 's largesse . |
| 21 | It is fairly easy to demonstrate that the meaning of a text can not be constrained by reference to a writer 's intentions . |
| 22 | ‘ 54–46 — That 's my number ’ , for example , is a reference to a prisoner 's number . |
| 23 | In many others there is simply a reference to a grandfather 's occupation . |
| 24 | ‘ ( 1 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(1) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the total liability of the institution to him immediately before the time when it becomes insolvent , limited to a maximum of £20,000 , in respect of the principal amounts of and accrued interest on sterling deposits made with United Kingdom offices of the institution . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 26 | As a rule of thumb , every storey makes a difference of one-tenth of a second to a building 's period . |
| 27 | An understanding of the consequences , good and bad , of intergroup competition can , therefore , be of considerable help to an organization 's management . |
| 28 | Compensation for cross boundary flows suffered from a number of flaws and disincentives : a Compensation was not made in cash but only as an adjustment to a district 's RAWP target after a two-year time lag . |
| 29 | I do understand intense misery and sorrow after losing a child to a terrorist 's bomb . |
| 30 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |