Example sentences of "in a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH actress Rachel Ward is set to star in a sequel to TV 's Thorn Birds — nearly a decade after the hit saga made her a worldwide star . |
| 2 | Until recently historians have believed that between the opposing parties there emerged around 1317 a so-called Middle Party , which had its beginning in a mission to Avignon in that year . |
| 3 | James II was conveyed by stratagem in a chest to Leith from Edinburgh Castle and then on to Stirling by sea . |
| 4 | TWO Suffolk men who are involved in a London to Sydney car marathon receive their rally Volvo car today . |
| 5 | Glanville indicated in a memo to Kerr that he thought there were problems ahead . |
| 6 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 7 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 8 | It is likely that had Smart completed his revisions and published the work he would have included an explanatory preface , as he does in A Song to David and the psalms translation . |
| 9 | The Inner London Education Authority , in a circular to schools , says that the computers on offer to primary schools are ‘ in many respects inadequate ’ . |
| 10 | Bad weather on the way to Karachi resulted in a return to Jask , where Lord Sempill made a heavy landing , damaging the tailwheel . |
| 11 | Now that the results of our efforts are showing in a return to profitability , everyone in Chemicals manufacturing knows that they have an important contribution to make in transforming the Chemicals business into a really successful part of Johnson Matthey . |
| 12 | Other explorers with more time available can go down the slope to Ease Gill and there locate Leck Beck Head ; here all the streams that disappear underground on Leck Fell join those from Ease Gill in a return to daylight . |
| 13 | The Life of Guthlac claims that Guthlac-reputedly appearing after his death in a vision to Aethelbald — prophesied that he would receive the kingdom from the hand of God , who had foreshortened Ceolred 's life for its wickedness , and triumph over his foes ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 49 ) . |
| 14 | They wound him in a cloak to pinion him from struggling , and twisted folds of the cloth hard round his mouth . |
| 15 | The profit attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to 524 million which , after dividends of 237 million , resulted in a transfer to reserves of 287 million . |
| 16 | We found in a questionaire to buyers last year that the Almanac topped the charts as the item that most surpassed their expectations . |
| 17 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 18 | In a response to questions from the House of Commons select committee on energy the UK government stated on Nov. 24 that it was not yet fully committed to cutting the use of fossil fuel by 20 per cent ( as agreed at the Toronto conference in 1988 — see p. 36784 ) , on the grounds that this was an " arbitrary " figure , which was picked " without scientific evidence " . |
| 19 | Obviously the NZRFU could not fit in a tour to South Africa in the second half of that heavy programme . |
| 20 | She used the ‘ immediacy effect ’ concept , adumbrated by Price 1965 , to find the percentage of references in a field to literature published within the last five years . |
| 21 | An hour later he put in a call to Major Michael Harvey in an army barracks in a secluded part of South Wales . |
| 22 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 23 | Edward dialled the operator and put in a call to Portsmouth . |
| 24 | At the office I put in a call to Connors that produced nothing . |
| 25 | The news that could well have wrecked forever Prince Charles ' hopes of one day becoming king was broken by the urbane Sir Robert Fellowes — the Queen 's Private Secretary — in a call to Downing Street . |
| 26 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 27 | But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly . |
| 28 | er were you ever a in a position to sort of to help other farmers er if they wanted their |
| 29 | However , in a warning to looters Iraqi television broadcast on Aug. 16 pictures of an executed Iraqi officer hanging above his looted booty in Kuwait City . |
| 30 | In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum . |