Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 2 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 3 | At Elstree a quite famous actress got in , and cooed a bit to Heather until we got to London . |
| 4 | He took a bit to work and sliced it |
| 5 | Well you read a bit to Clare while I go and get the |
| 6 | ‘ He came around a bit to Michael but I do n't believe he ever liked him . |
| 7 | Central Wales & Staffordshire Junction Railway ( from Catchen 's Corner ) Junction with the Stour Valley Railway , south of Wolverhampton and the Oxford , Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway , south of Dudley to the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgnorth and on to the Knighton Railway beyond Craven Arms ; with branches to Swindon from the line from Dudley south of Trysull , a branch to Burton and Wenlock Edge ; another to Bromfield making a south-facing junction with Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway and a north-facing junction to the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway via a spur at Craven Arms . |
| 8 | A successor to Thoughts after Lambeth would have borne a more sombre message . |
| 9 | In his History of the Abbots Bede says that Ecgberht , king of Kent , sent a certain Wigheard to Rome where he wished him to be consecrated archbishop , and only subsequently in the Ecclesiastical History does Bede report that Oswiu and Ecgberht consulted together on what action to take about a successor to Deusdedit and that they agreed on the choice of one of Deusdedit 's clergy , Wigheard , whom they sent to Rome to be consecrated ( HE III , 29 ) . |
| 10 | More often than not , the parasite develops a resistance to drugs and suitable alternatives are not easy to find . |
| 11 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 12 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 13 | But we have to understand that sects are a response to modernity that works . |
| 14 | As a response to events and ideas , economic life has become increasingly politicised and the workings of a modern mixed economy effected by a social contract between government , the corporate sector and the trade unions . |
| 15 | Governments have to govern people , and not only do their policies have a direct impact on the population at large , and are likely to be shaped to some degree by an awareness of what that impact might be , but policies can also be a response to pressures or problems that emerge out of society . |
| 16 | The increased metabolism of glutamine by the distal colon in ulcerative colitis seems probably reflects a response to inflammation and consequent hyperplasia and is in keeping with evidence that repsiratory chin enzymes are increased in ulcerative colitis . |
| 17 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 18 | It 's not just ice hockey players ; there are several teams of figure skaters now left without a rink to practice or compete on . |
| 19 | Its secession , however , would be a blow to Serbia because it controls the narrow strip of Adriatic coast that includes the rump federation 's only commercial port and naval base . |
| 20 | But it is a blow to self-esteem and status that no amount of respect for the processes of democracy can remove . |
| 21 | Even today , Indian students invoke a prayer to Ganesa when they start a new term at school . |
| 22 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 23 | And , as I stooped to get back under cover , I recalled that there would , even from the sanest , be a concession to superstition that would be gone by the morning , a belief that the beginning of the year foreshadowed the character of the rest . |
| 24 | After a few more minutes of ribald banter on our part we were startled by a flash to starboard and an explosion as a six-pound shell whizzed across our bows . |
| 25 | Educated at a private school in Norton near Sheffield , Gaskell was apprenticed as a clerk to Yates & Cox , Liverpool iron merchants and nail-makers , in 1827 . |
| 26 | What would be the position if I sold the house back to my father , who is 65 years old — would I have a liability to CGT and what discount , if any , could I offer my father ? |
| 27 | Subtitled " an aesthetic essay " , the work was to begin with a preface to Wagner and , after discussion of the birth and death of Dionysiac art in Greece , to end ( apparently ) with its rebirth in Wagner 's music . |
| 28 | This tended to support the broad structure at most Colleges at that time , ie reflecting a division to operations and support . |
| 29 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 30 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |