Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that bypass opened , congestion was greatly reduced — but it is beginning to increase again because of the greater use of the A12 as a route into the hinterland of East Anglia , to the ports of Ipswich , Harwich and Felixstowe . |
| 2 | This can provide a route into the body for HIV from infected semen — and out of the body from the rectum into the penis via infected blood ( blood can enter the penis through the hole in the end ) . |
| 3 | It could signal the need for food when the rivers overflowed their banks , or for volunteers when snow-drifts were piling up and people were needed to come out and reinforce the banks and dig a route through the snow . |
| 4 | It is level , it 's available , the developer may provide a , an amenity area , it says so in the letter anyway , for the town , and a route across the river to . |
| 5 | Thirdly , these regionally based programmes of initial training also provide a route to the obtaining of a professional qualification for an increasing number of people outside the formal further education sector , such as nurse tutors , education staff in the armed forces and in prisons , and industrial trainers . |
| 6 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 7 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 8 | The Department of Transport has put forward proposals for a new route around the south of the town although protestors and the local CBI prefer a route to the north along the present A forty one . |
| 9 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 10 | Thus if Exceptional children is the preferred term , when the user looks under Children he must also be able to trace a route to the document . |
| 11 | a route to the heart of the dream . |
| 12 | With Ole Larsen , a Finn , Colbeck reached the furthest south ( 78° 51 'S 50'W ) thus far achieved and reconnoitred a route to the Pole later followed by Roald Amundsen , who in 1912 after his triumph sent Colbeck a letter of thanks . |
| 13 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 14 | Surgical drains are placed by the surgeon into the wound and provide a route for the exit of blood or body fluids which would otherwise prevent healing . |
| 15 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 16 | For example , we might suggest a route for the mains , and specify carriageway , verge or footpath , based on the results of our own surveys . |
| 17 | Hercegovina looks to the Adriatic , with the valley of the Neretva providing a route from the capital , Mostar , to the sea . |
| 18 | Ace looked up , tracing a route from the stanchion to a diagonal girder , an almost vertical cable , a narrow pipe and then a short piece of wider ducting . |
| 19 | Picking a route from the walking riches of Scotland is always somewhat arbitrary — but needs must and a traverse of the Five Sisters of Kintail will certainly pass muster as a first-rate choice . |
| 20 | However , this crossing is on a route from the town centre to housing areas and schools which is heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists , so the opportunity was taken to reconstruct the junction to meet the needs of soft traffic ( Figure 6.12 ) . |
| 21 | The Bypass which is approximately 23 kms ( 14 miles ) in length follows a route round the south side of the City from the Glasgow Road ( A8 ) west of the Maybury to the interchange on the Musselburgh Bypass ( A1 ) near Old Craighall . |
| 22 | For his part , the franchisee makes a payment to the franchisor for the rights to a particular area and a royalty based upon sales expressed as a percentage of sales . |
| 23 | If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … . |
| 24 | In addition , in either case , the patient may have to make a payment at the point of receipt of service . [ … ] |
| 25 | If the party obliged to make a payment as the result of an expert 's decision does not do so , he may , if he is an individual , be served with a statutory demand under s268 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; or , if the defaulting party is a company , it may be served with a written demand under s123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 26 | So if you are not a UK taxpayer you are advised not to make a payment under the Gift Aid scheme but to make a straight payment by cash or cheque . |
| 27 | it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover . |
| 28 | If a pension fund transferred is over-funded , the seller will often seek extra consideration or a payment from the acquirer equal to the excess funding net of any tax considerations . |
| 29 | Accordingly , article 119 did not apply to the Employment Secretary 's liability to make section 106 payments , and an employee who had become entitled to a state pension and was then dismissed for redundancy was not entitled to a payment from the Employment Secretary under section 106 . |
| 30 | The transfer would , in a typical case , be achieved by a payment from the vendor 's scheme to the purchaser 's scheme and the provision by the purchaser 's scheme of benefits of equal value to those provided by the vendor 's scheme . |