Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides . |
| 2 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 3 | Now the Law Commission has issued a working paper entitled ‘ Contributory Negligence as a Defence in Contract ’ in which it recommends that contributory negligence should be available as a defence to all breaches of contractual obligations . |
| 4 | Neither he nor the Council was fully aware of the pressures for expansion that were to intensify from 1972 , or of what might be involved in a response to such injunctions as those of the THES to make the influence of the CNAA more widely felt . |
| 5 | A letter on this topic , a response to some critics , appeared only last month ( Nature , 362 , 212 ; 1993 ) . |
| 6 | Fed tightening could deliver a blow to such hopes . |
| 7 | Base part drawing files are held in the where used file together with a cross-reference to all sub-assemblies in which that part occurs . |
| 8 | A change to these routines would normally have implications for the database control sub-system . |
| 9 | Sudeley Castle is quite a contrast to some places she 's performed at . |
| 10 | Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes . |
| 11 | A vote to all householders . |
| 12 | Scott immediately sent a reply to all Members , along with copies of a paper he had already produced entitled The Gothic Renaissance , but with the parliamentary session closing on the following Saturday this was too late to have any effect . |
| 13 | This pattern draws in considerably and you will be able to see the advantage of losing a stitch to both sides of the cables . |
| 14 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 15 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 16 | The low royal turnout was a disappointment to some race-goers who travelled to Ascot in droves dressed in their finery to see and be seen at one of the greatest annual events of the high society calendar . |
| 17 | This will come as a disappointment to some couples , but it would be unfair to raise expectations when our list of approved couples is currently more than sufficient to meet the demand . |
| 18 | My mother , a witness to many acts of motiveless violence over the years , was already holding the door open . |
| 19 | Jack avoided being a witness to these scenes much of the time by residing in college . |
| 20 | Not that Hoskins is a stranger to such surroundings . |
| 21 | I am a stranger to such matters . |
| 22 | Bob graffiti : He Lives , and is now giving a living to more Jamaicans than when we walked the streets of Kingston |
| 23 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 24 | 18:3 provides a key to these chapters . |
| 25 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |
| 26 | This predominance was justified after November 1968 by the ‘ Brezhnev doctrine ’ , a statement by the Soviet leader that any move away from Communism in an Eastern bloc state would be treated as a menace to all states in the bloc . |
| 27 | Competition can be a spur to some pupils and fun in some activities , but the individual 's improvement of his own levels of attainment should be seen to be what really matters and be the most evident cause of encouragement . |
| 28 | This system will provide a clear accountability relationship between centres and SCOTVEC , will enable greater recognition to be given to centres with proven internal quality systems and will provide a spur to those centres whose systems are found to be ineffective . |
| 29 | The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances . |
| 30 | However , press reports on Jan. 2 stated that the government had ordered a halt to all offensives against the Tamil Tigers . |