Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 2 | MORLEY STREET handed out a length beating to younger brother Granville Again in a stirring finish to the Coral-Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 4 | In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers , ‘ Except the hero and heroine , and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it , as a novel the work itself is materially true , especially in the narrative of sea-adventure , most of which did ( to the best of our recollection ) occur to the author . ’ |
| 5 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 6 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 7 | A LONE Spitfire flew over the RAF 's most famous base yesterday in a final salute to The Few . |
| 8 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 9 | Suggestions are given below for preparation and study of rock faces , slices and slabs , and the way in which these preparations support examination of thin sections in a broad-based approach to sedimentary petrography . |
| 10 | Well I marked that certain tank and I put it in in a sealed envelope to the police station and I said I do n't know which tank they said whoever 's emptied it has done , but I said , If it happens to be that tank then they are lying . |
| 11 | After completion , post it in a sealed envelope to Patio Competition , Small Gardens , Bushfield House , Orton Centre , Peterborough PE2 OUW to arrive no later than December 31st 1989 . |
| 12 | It is mentioned just once in this book in a pejorative reference to ‘ segregated workshops ’ , yet a dozen pages earlier , the authors complain that in the earlier part of the century ‘ in some areas there were virtually no sheltered workshops at all for disabled people to attend ’ . |
| 13 | Gough in a rash return to hostility |
| 14 | In a symbolic gesture to this effect , he renounced his $10,000 monthly presidential salary , saying that he would accept whatever sum the legislature chose to pay him . |
| 15 | A live show is something separate and you do different things in a live show to what you do on a record . |
| 16 | By band-shifting experiments , specific and non-specific competition and DMS interference analysis we demonstrated that , in fact , factor(s) are able to bind in a specific manner to this element ( named here region III ) . |
| 17 | Fortunately for him , he was always in a lower division to me . ’ |
| 18 | Even where the data is collected by trained interviewers , non-response probably remains a greater problem than with small samples , since the requirement of having a team of interviewers ( rather than one or two ) may result in a lower commitment to the goal of obtaining a high response rate . |
| 19 | In a two-day visit to the UK on Feb. 12-14 , Mazowiecki held talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over German unification and the economic problems presented by the magnitude of Polish debt . |
| 20 | They liked watching her play out a Cinderella fantasy , wearing gold lamé and riding in a gold-plated carriage to a ball from which she did not return until well after midnight . |
| 21 | It makes meaningful an analysis of the level ( or levels ) of ideology and relates it in a non-reductive way to the economic base — the mode of production . |
| 22 | He had been urged by his doctor to escape the English winter and at the end of the year he went once more to South Africa for a ten-week holiday , sailing to Durban and then proceeding in a leisurely fashion to Cape Town . |
| 23 | These proposals will result in a systematic charge to the p&l account for instruments such as deep discount bonds , and will ensure that the premium on convertible bonds incorporating a premium put option is recognised over the period from issue to the exercise date — as is , in fact , already required by UITF Abstract 1 . |
| 24 | By the mid 1930s internal factions had gathered around the journal Scrutiny in a systematic opposition to the dominant trends represented by the Review . |
| 25 | As we have already noted , the explanation for the post-war uniformity of local politics perhaps lies elsewhere than in a simple appeal to non-local forces . |
| 26 | Fearing further unrest Alfonso 's government accepted the need for an electoral strategy and called local elections as the first stage in a gradual return to representative politics . |
| 27 | The second key element in a rational approach to budgeting is the base on which the range of choices is to be set . |
| 28 | In a historic speech to the European Parliament the Queen said there were insignificant differences between Westminster and Europe . |
| 29 | Vand — a root word meaning ‘ saluting ’ or ‘ greeting ’ : an acknowledgement of rank or attainment applied in a spiritual context to an Initiate . |
| 30 | In a comprehensive introduction to No Breathing Room , David R. Marples not only gives some hard facts about the Chernobyl disaster ; he also indicates that the impoverishment of most of the population as a result of soaring inflation caused by ‘ shock therapy ’ economic policies , and the removal of subsidies to the publishing trade , made it difficult for high-quality literary magazines to cope , despite the so-called freedom of the press . |