Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 2 | Using the last example of a bond with a dirty price of 96.50 , coupon payments of 8.75 per annum and a year to maturity , we get the following yields to maturity : |
| 3 | .. that can provide a unifying framework within which policy can be elaborated and a link to Labour 's historical principles be maintained . ’ |
| 4 | for the women in the study , friendship both given and received gives meaning to existence and a structure to life in retirement . |
| 5 | For most of the pupils — of the type now readily labelled ‘ ROSLA kids ’ — school is seen as an unpleasant trap and a deterrent to life . |
| 6 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 7 | When Mark Bright arrived on the Palace scene the following year the duo soon established a marvellously successful striking twosome and it was largely their goals which took the club to the promotion play-offs and a return to Division One in 1989 . |
| 8 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 9 | Would you like to be more assertive , to dress with style and authority , to break down the confidence barriers standing between you and a return to work , or a new job ? |
| 10 | Our newspapers , for instance , have been transformed with colour and a return to writing and journalism not based solely on ‘ hard news ’ . |
| 11 | Even as there is a movement among women towards women-controlling our own sexuality and reproduction , childbirth , and a return to midwifery principles , the new reproductive and genetic technologies are asserting a model for scientific control of reproduction , and one that is industrial : these methods are big money-makers for the biotechnology industry , the old and new pharmaceutical and medical supply companies . |
| 12 | For the guerrillas of Guatemala 's URNG , peace and a return to party politics are a long way off . |
| 13 | There is , of course , a financial cost in this , but the cost of failure and a return to dictatorship and the cold war would be infinitely higher . |
| 14 | It was a time for flower power and a return to nature and the simple ways . |
| 15 | In fact it 's Oxford 93 and a rehearsal to boot . |
| 16 | He answered her in his usual calm manner , which was easy for him , thought Sally-Anne , for was he not one of the lords of the world and a man to boot ? |
| 17 | She would , herself , have dispensed with the shepherd 's pie , but Memet was a man and a Turk to boot . |
| 18 | Coming from a Communist family background in the early 1960s , the pull of the underground- and a trip to South America — had sucked him away from politics . |
| 19 | There are a number of small-scale studies by researchers , such as Beatrix Campbell ( 1984 ) and Paul Willis ( 1984 ) , that suggest that at least some young unemployed teenage girls see childbearing both as a method of obtaining fulfilment and a purpose to life since the usual source , that of paid work , is not available to them , and also as the only means of obtaining a home of their own . |
| 20 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
| 21 | He produced a Bolivian ‘ miracle ’ : economic stability and a halt to hyperinflation . |
| 22 | It is a well-documented fact that cancer , for example , is more prevalent in those with a predisposition to depression and a tendency to bottle-up their emotions just to please others . |
| 23 | That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph . |
| 24 | Smoking also increases atherosclerosis and a tendency to thrombosis [ 7 ] . |
| 25 | ( See Levy ( 1973 ) who saw , in Tahiti , an association between a desire for a measure of interdependence and autonomy , a certain degree of emotional remoteness from others , and a resistance to dependence . ) |
| 26 | It 's a tall order , and a challenge to development communication professionals in the coming decade . |
| 27 | It flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for a show and a visit to city casinos . |
| 28 | Deployment followed an agreement signed between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Moldova 's Mircea Snegur on July 21 in Moscow envisaging special status for the Dnestr region and a right to self-determination in case of Moldova 's reunification with Romania . |
| 29 | The derivation is based on the interpretation of a bond as a composition of an annuity ( which provides the coupon stream ) and a zero-coupon bond ( which provides the principal repayment ) represented by ( using ( 5.29 ) with P d = B = 100 and d = rp T ) : where rp T is the par yield for a term to maturity of T years , where the discount factor D T is the fair price of a zero-coupon bond with par value of 1 and a term to maturity of T years , and where is the fair price of an annuity of 1 per year for T years ( with A o = 0 by convention ) . |
| 30 | In his last year at Marlborough Sorley won the senior Farrar prize for English literature and language , the Buchanan prize for public reading , and a scholarship to University College , Oxford . |