Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 2 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 3 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 4 | Adam had slammed the Jeep to a stop before the helicopter was on its back . |
| 5 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 6 | The paragraph reads like a prelude to a claim that the solicitors be made responsible for the loss . |
| 7 | No , I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary , who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him . |
| 8 | In reply to a question as to how many cathedral choristers become clergy , the response of 2.5% was consistent across the country . |
| 9 | As the numbers of records increase , the problem of waiting for a reply to a query until the whole of a serial file has been searched increases in proportion , and eventually this delay becomes unacceptable . |
| 10 | Give that club to a lady and she could no more control it than the power man could use her club effectively . |
| 11 | Does the Prime Minister accept that we are pleased that the United Kingdom is signatory to a treaty that commits it to an ever closer union among European peoples , where decisions are to be taken as close to the citizens as possible ? |
| 12 | 7 Keep disruption to a minimum and try to keep any live models as relaxed as possible . |
| 13 | Article 18 of the Vienna Convention draws a distinction between a third party stranger to a treaty and one which is a non-party , but has minimum obligations . |
| 14 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
| 15 | On the edge of the runway Greg brought the ambulance to a halt and while they prepared to wait for the incoming aircraft , David maintained radio contact with the control tower . |
| 16 | One story now in the mythology of the prison service concerns a governor who granted an interview to a prisoner but rather summarily refused his request . |
| 17 | She drew the car to a halt and pulled on the handbrake . |
| 18 | They took the car to a garage and they took Karen 's body to a hospital . |
| 19 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 20 | Morton slowed the speed a little , preparing to bring the boat to a halt when he needed to . |
| 21 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 22 | Ideally it is envisaged that the editor will be able to call up the OED entry and the corresponding Supplement entry to a VDU and carry out all the necessary operations on screen . |
| 23 | There are only five exceptions : accusations of a crime punishable by imprisonment , suggestions that the plaintiff carries a contagious disease ; adverse reflections on a person 's ability to carry out an office , business or profession ; slanders on the reputation or credit of tradespeople ; and words imputing unchastity or adultery to a woman or girl . |
| 24 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 25 | It had happened before , when they had descended from her apartment , but then the presence of another person had diluted the effect to an extent where she was able to ignore it . |
| 26 | The inquest jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing and one of suicide also challenged in the case of Trevor Carrington , 38 , the party guest said to have confessed to setting light to a sofa and starting the blaze . |
| 27 | Olympic gold medallist Chris Boardman will set light to a bonfire and fireworks display being held by Hoylake and West Kirby Round Table at Hoylake rugby club at 7pm on Saturday night . |
| 28 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 29 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 30 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |