Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 2 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 3 | ( sending a cheque to another person 's account by guaranteed post to arrive the following day for immediate clearance , if there are sufficient funds to cover it ) £10 |
| 4 | Sally Line donated a crossing to another team who reached Paris , others were given coach tickets at Victoria Coach Station , teams reached Bristol , Lindisfarne and Gretna Green whilst the Elephant Washing Company went to Windsor Safari Park and washed an elephant . |
| 5 | Medication taken to relieve high blood pressure can cause impotence , for example , and a visit to the doctor may be worthwhile to check on this — sometimes a change to another brand may be suggested . |
| 6 | In some ways he was a throw-back to another era when golfers swung the golf club rather than tried to hit the ball with as much power as they could command . |
| 7 | In Video Plan 6 we have an example of very intensive treatment of a very short sequence ( 26 seconds ) where the video is repeatedly returned to as a stimulus to another activity . |
| 8 | Inevitably , you win some , you lose some in transposing a work to another medium . |
| 9 | Employees may wish to accept a transfer to another area but can not afford to do so . |
| 10 | If you like your job but ca n't get on with the people with whom you have to work , consider asking for a transfer to another department . |
| 11 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |
| 12 | This is the same , in the same way that we had passing and receiving areas , of passing data from one part of a spreadsheet to another part of a spreadsheet . |
| 13 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 14 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 15 | A. If you are a tenant of one of the housing associations within about 100 miles of London which participate in the Project , you can ask it to nominate you for a move to another association within your area . |
| 16 | She may also have to face a serious reduction in income , which might necessitate the sale of her house and the loss of her settled way of life by a move to another neighbourhood and to a smaller home , or into yours if that is to be the arrangement you both decide upon . |
| 17 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 18 | FSA does not apply to advice given by a person to another person ( ie it is excluded ) if : |
| 19 | Now and then someone 's final flight takes place when Aurigny undertakes a ‘ coffin charter ’ to transfer a corpse to another island or to the mainland for burial or cremation . |
| 20 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 21 | The role it actually plays is that of an exclamation , or a signal to another person that he can now expect me to , say , continue a series according to a formula . |
| 22 | Thus it is possible for one of these three Conventions to apply in relation to a purely internal supply-contract in which goods move from one place in a State to another place in the same State pursuant to a contract concluded by acts of offer and acceptance entirely within that State . |
| 23 | I would like to follow a man to another country . ’ |
| 24 | This does not disqualify the character from honourable knightly status — think of Tristram and Yseult , or Lancelot and Guinevere — but it does create a degree of tension : the service of a knight to another man 's lady wife is , as the Lancelot–Guinevere tale shows , the classically subversive element within the knightly ethos . |
| 25 | This means you get the debt guaranteed by a bank in the buyer 's country , then sell it at a discount to another bank . |
| 26 | On the shore one of the men was tying a rope to another tree . |
| 27 | A MFN clause guarantees to a buyer that if , when the contract is concluded or within some specified time period later , the seller makes a sale to another buyer at a lower price , then the buyer in question will also receive that lower price . |
| 28 | For the life on earth of each individual was not a finite entity , complete in itself , but a transition to another mode of existence ; the gateway to that unknown land was death — Mors Janna Vitae , as the memorial tablets had it . |
| 29 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 30 | As she was about to hand a cup to another air man , Peggy happened to jostle her arm and the tea sprayed on to the counter , splashing the man on the other side . |