Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 2 | Though the Conservative Club 's 500 members have pledged Party allegiance to a man the question of women membership is said to be ‘ in abeyance ’ the number of votes in Horden is unlikely to have filled many coal tubs . |
| 3 | In order to amount to a gift to an individual the property transferred by the donor must : 1 . |
| 4 | It 's about because the company after all is you it 's a group of people and so er it 's about putting over the right image so quality presentation to a client the image . |
| 5 | In a similar survey , Welsh hill farmers said they lost , on average , one lamb to a fox every two years . |
| 6 | Instead of making an outright payment to a beneficiary the trustees may decide to lend monies to a beneficiary . |
| 7 | This trial was repeated in the life of one of her daughters , Mary , who gave birth to a son a week after being widowed in 1737 . |
| 8 | Well down the road to a reappraisal The tortured debate on society 's values is nothing new for Scotland 's teaching profession , reports Douglas Fraser |
| 9 | Roll out with a lightly floured rolling pin to a rectangle the same size as the tin . |
| 10 | Although the Commission is a statutory body with a wide remit to promote the interests of crofters , it is so tightly bound by the rule of ‘ ultra vires ’ and treasury control , that it could not devote a minuscule sum to an experiment the results of which were endorsed by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the North and Highland Division , who wrote ‘ I should very much like to see continued the special educational merits of the scheme , challenge without competition , linkage of school and community in common effort , availability of expert advice to schools as they link theory with practice , financial assistance for bigger Projects , commitments which continue ’ . |
| 11 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |
| 12 | In a paper , Share Schemes — A Consultative Approach , NAPF indicates that companies making use of share schemes should delegate authority for monitoring and operating the scheme to a committee the majority of whose membership are independent non-executive directors . |
| 13 | It provides us with an appeal to a constituency the Tories have been allowed to monopolise . |
| 14 | Roll out the remaining red fondant to a circle a little larger than the cake and use to cover the top of the postbox , overlapping the fondant ‘ collar ’ slightly all the way round . |
| 15 | I felt curious as I said the words in an office to a man the other side of a desk with white flowers and greenery in a vase . |
| 16 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 17 | The chunks of marc are often transferred at this stage to a séchoir- a smaller , deeper , vertical press — or to a horizontal press to be squeezed out . |