Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
2 | Like any other young couple they teamed up for outings to the beach , for barbecues with friends , or visits to the cinema . |
3 | Acting as midwife to the enterprise has been Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios who was assisted by Roberto Valeriani . |
4 | In a wider sense , we need to consider the effects of world issues such as damage to the environment by pollution of air , soil and water ; the rapidly diminishing rain forests ; wars , famine , and the nuclear threat . |
5 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
6 | At the beginning of her Preface to Divine Songs and Meditacions , Collins claims she undertook to write : ‘ Being through weakness to the house confin'd/My mental powers seeming long to sleep ’ . |
7 | For his pains in defending Paisley , Boal was fired from his lucrative job as counsel to the Attorney-General . |
8 | Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week ( CI No 2,128 ) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market . |
9 | Beneath this an equally twinkling canopy overhung a pavement inlaid with tiles of lilies and acanthus leaves leading through swing-doors to a foyer rich in crimson carpet , mahogany , plump banquettes , frames of photographs of the cast in this or other productions , a Box Office within whose highly carved confines the Box Office manager or his assistant lurked like priests in the confessional receiving through the pinched grill the whispered wishes of communicants . |
10 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
11 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
12 | To her relief , Elinor was not slumped on the floor ; deathly white , she clung for support to the silver brocade hangings of her bed . |
13 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
14 | If agreed by the Council of Ministers it will form the basis for support to the maintenance of traditional agriculture without intensification . |
15 | In 1681 Lodwick was elected to membership of the Royal Society , and thereafter frequently acted as auditor to the council . |
16 | BSc Hons Professional Development in Nursing and BTech degrees — see Application using the University 's Direct Entry Form , p 50 ) , should be made through the Universities Central Council on Admissions ( UCCA ) in accordance with the procedure described in the Council 's handbook ‘ How to Apply for Admission to a University ’ . |
17 | How to apply for admission to a university . |
18 | Science ‘ A ’ levels are normally just as acceptable as arts subjects and no one subject is essential for admission to a law degree course . |
19 | The criterion for the acceptance of applicants is their ability to follow successfully a course of academic study and , in appropriate cases , to qualify for admission to a profession . |
20 | No one knew quite why this did not happen , why he remained good but no better than that , nor why he failed the audition for admission to a county youth orchestra . |
21 | My fellow schoolboys vied with one another for admission to the cinema , so that they could witness X-rated films . |
22 | Normally GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE passes at grade C or above in Mathematics and a science subject ( and , as part of the general entry requirements , English Language ) are required for admission to the Sport and Leisure Studies programmes . |
23 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
24 | All intending applicants for admission to the Faculty of Divinity are always welcome to visit the Faculty for a discussion with a member of staff . |
25 | This has meant a decline in the number of applications for admission to the Home in recent years , and with the certain reduction in the numbers at the Home in the future by death , it was obvious that the Home — to use a common words these days — was no longer " viable " . |
26 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
27 | Exceptionally , candidates with other qualifications will be considered for admission to the course . |
28 | Any other such applicant as deemed by St Andrew 's College to be suitable for admission to the course . |
29 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
30 | All who have applied for admission to the school are to be taken to have expressed a preference for that school : section 6(4) . |