Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway .
2 Similarly , a means has to be established by which lessons can be learnt and the need for change to procedure and practice identified where necessary .
3 The University of Ulster welcomes the ‘ AS ’ proposals as a means of broadening ‘ A ’ level studies and has incorporated them into its General Entry Requirements for admission to degree and DipHE courses .
4 The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 .
5 The criteria for admission to PGCE and B.Ed .
6 Application for Admission to Art and Design Courses
7 To help achieve this , the proposed Trust would aim to give all patients a date for admission to hospital when first placed on the waiting list . ’
8 ( A distinction between attitudes to housework and child-care is a different matter from a temporal merging of the two activities . )
9 They are guidelines , there are no final decisions to be taken in terms of the implementation of a number of these , but this is the Committee 's opportunity to view those in detail and make its recommendations through proposals to Policy and Resources Committee and on to Council .
10 He did not mean as mistress to servant or patroness to protege .
11 For non-emergency patients the time between admission to hospital and surgery will be at least 14 hours .
12 The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder against liability at law for damages and claimants costs and expenses and all costs and expenses incurred with its written consent in respect of death of or bodily injury to any person and up to a limit of £1,000,000 for damage to property where such death injury or damage arises out of an accident caused by or in connection with
13 The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the draft of the treaty at Maastricht today provides for the improvement of employees ' working conditions , for legal protection and for entitlement to consultation and to information .
14 Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) .
15 However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom .
16 Part of the reason for this relationship between susceptibility to weathering and temperature of crystallization appears to lie in the relative strength of the bonds between oxygen and the cations in each mineral .
17 Limitations on the amount recoverable for loss of life ( some £38,000 under the 1974 Athens Convention ) and for losses to cargo and vehicles show that the haulier has to be very careful when undertaking operations involving cross-channel ferries .
18 R. Rhodes , ( 1984 , p. 355 ) , observing the increased assertiveness of the Thatcher government , has characterized the changes in relationship between central and local government during the 1970s as shifting from bargaining through incorporation to direction and centralization in the 1980s .
19 In 1892 , the party majority led by Pilsudski opted for opposition to capitalism and support for an independent Poland .
20 We can repeat our exercise and briefly characterise the divergence between the naturalistic and sociological explanations , this time through reference to marriage and the position or role of women in the family ( Table 1.2 ) .
21 The modular system provides a basis of transferable skills which assists those who , for whatever reason , wish to change career direction ; those preparing for return to employment and those wishing to add to or update their skills .
22 There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct .
23 Some groups of animals found in nature are simple ‘ associations ’ assembled either through overwhelming influences of nature , such as tide-washed plankton on a sandy shore , or through responses to temperature or light held in common by all participants .
24 The time is ripe for a review of progress to date and an assessment of the likely future impact of computers on the craft of qualitative analysis .
25 Courses include a two-day framing workshop with Diana Reynette-James , who has her own picture gallery , £75 ; fresh flower arranging with Jennifer Bentley , teacher of floristry to City and Guilds standard , £40 ; a three-day course in which you recane your own chair , £75 ; a two-day course in copper plate writing with calligrapher , Eric Smith , £60 .
26 In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ?
27 In the Middle Ages a degree of drainage which allowed the conversion of pasture to meadow provided livestock farmers with that most precious of commodities , winter fodder .
28 The experience of admission to hospital and the possibility of surgery will be different for each individual but it is possible to discuss some of the physical and psychological factors which may contribute to stress and the effects these may have on progress and recovery .
29 It can also mean " unrestrained " in the sense either of freedom to act or prodigality in giving : what Wilekin wants is that she give herself .
30 A member of the Botanical Society of London , Atkins was a pioneer in the application of photography to science and to publication .
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