Example sentences of "a [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever the truth may lie , it is a body-blow to the hopes of political ‘ detente ’ between black and white . |
| 2 | It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory . |
| 3 | Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies . |
| 4 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 5 | Always report a burglary to the police — your insurance company may not honour your claim if you do n't . |
| 6 | Do these words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown only upon an Address of both Houses ( with a direction to the Houses that they are not to present an Address unless the judge has misbehaved himself ) ? |
| 7 | The judge found , however , that it was a direction to the executors varying their obligations in the administration and distribution of the state and neither a contract nor a gift . |
| 8 | Claudia gave up without a struggle to the sensations that were shaking her slender form . |
| 9 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 10 | The farsighted and Strong minded PRO will not give in to such pressures and will try to explain the pitfalls of such a course to the powers that be . |
| 11 | Latimer pleaded for time to prepare a defence to the charges against him , but William of Wykeham insisted that he should answer them immediately . |
| 12 | These changes are a response to the wishes of subscribers , as expressed in readership surveys , and of the editorial staff , as expressed in repeated cries of woe . |
| 13 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 14 | The environment calls the tune and the strategic behaviour of individuals is a response to the circumstances affecting their lives . |
| 15 | Although it is partly a response to the claims of transnationalism and hence of recent birth , Neo-Realism belongs firmly to the Realist tradition , as its name suggests . |
| 16 | Is Labour still reflecting the ideals of the past rather than organizing a response to the problems of the future ? |
| 17 | Instead , ‘ science ’ can be understood as a response to the conditions of existence ( material and ideological ) that resists the givenness of those conditions . |
| 18 | ‘ Up in the bloody rafters , ’ said Stone grimly ; he shivered , perhaps a response to the thoughts of having to go back up into the roof space , into the cold , cramped quarters . |
| 19 | On the individual level , a decision to adopt the Second Choice , would introduce the overriding need for two new elements in human development , ( a ) , personal self-control , and ( b ) , the requirement to develop a response to the emotions which does not damage , more than can be avoided , the happiness of others . |
| 20 | And if the form changed , it was as a response to the exigencies of content . |
| 21 | For example , government provision of housing may be seen as a response to the inadequacies of the market as a provider of houses , but it has also transformed the character of that market . |
| 22 | Local authorities began to acquire properties as a response to the inadequacies of the 1932 Act and even before the LCC announced its green belt scheme in January 1935 some authorities , notably Middlesex and Surrey had commenced acquisition on a large scale ( Thomas , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | Whether this new investigation has been ordered partly as a response to the assertions made by the New York firm of O'Toole-Ewald Arts Associates , whose services Goldreyer engaged just after the first report was released by the Rijswijk laboratories , is not certain . |
| 24 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 25 | In part it was a response to the needs of childless white couples for whom white infants were no longer available for adoption . |
| 26 | I think that the new settlement erm should be as close to York erm city as can be achieved , the erm question of the detailed location er I think is a matter for erm discussion on the basis of the other planning policy guidance erm criteria which I have n't explored terms of the locational criteria , what I was seeking to do in my comments was erm to counter a point which has been made er by the C P R E which refers to new settlements as an engine of growth , now that 's not the purpose of this new settlement , it is a response to the needs of meeting Greater York , and I do n't see any reason why that 's less likely to be achieved if it 's South South West of York , than anywhere else around the circumference of York . |
| 27 | As time has gone on this emphasis has diminished partly as a response to the pressures of the marketplace . |
| 28 | Attractive as this new programme was as a response to the requirements of " relevance " , and the need to fight off incursions by scientific and technological education , it remained none the less vulnerable on a number of counts . |
| 29 | If players have the freedom to act in their best interests as a response to the signals of the market place , it is simply not possible to determine the outcome of the game by reference to certain ideals of social justice . |
| 30 | This was a blow to the defenders of orthodoxy , who had to stand by while refugee children from Jewish urban areas were shunted off to largely Christian rural areas . |