Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your guide to building on a dream |
| 2 | With all those holidays in which to practise and play — almost from dawn to dusk at times — my handicap rattled down , and I went to university with a handicap of two . |
| 3 | Home and school had worn her success like a prize rosette , and she trotted off to university with a stack of leather-bound prizes and dire warnings about hard work , early nights and regular meals . |
| 4 | That departure to university of a man far less intelligent than himself had been a blow to Stephen . |
| 5 | Fifty-four Spitfires were delivered to Renfrew with a total of 47 being loaded on board the vessel . |
| 6 | They would n't allow human beings to shit on a balcony , so why dogs ? |
| 7 | Very important electronic applications of the simple high-pass form of C-R circuit are to coupling a signal while blocking a direct potential difference and to differentiation of a signal as discussed in section 4.4 . |
| 8 | Under the old rating system , spending was limited to income from a 2p in the pound rate and an equivalent restriction was continued under the poll tax . |
| 9 | This seems to coincide with the experience of love he calls " inseparabel " when : and the solitary is urged to prayer as a focus for the love : The second stage he labels contemplation which is " a wonderful joy of Goddes luf , whilk joy es lovyng of God , may noght be talde " ( 118.46 – 7 ) . |
| 10 | The men sport black coats and long beards and dedicate their lives to prayer in a way that has changed little in 250 years . |
| 11 | The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) . |
| 12 | The question then arises whether it is right to attribute to Parliament as a whole the same intention as that repeatedly voiced by the Financial Secretary . |
| 13 | Admissible statements must also be clear in the sense that the legislative intention which they express must also be attributable ‘ to Parliament as a whole ’ . |
| 14 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 15 | In 1553 Northumberland appealed to Parliament for a peacetime grant of two fifteenths and tenths and a subsidy of 2s. in the pound on landed incomes , 1s. 4d. in the pound on personal property over £2O . |
| 16 | It found that Blecha had instructed officials including the police to slow down the inquiry against Proksch , had suppressed incriminating files and had brought disciplinary measures against officials working on the inquiry , as well as giving incomplete information to parliament on a number of occasions as regards the progress of the inquiry . |
| 17 | It was presented to Parliament by a Secretary of State for Environment , Trade and Industry , Health , Education and Science etcetera , in September 1990 . |
| 18 | In this room , the tree has pride of place , decorated with purple , red and gold baubles with strings of pearl beads and silver cord garlands draped from branch to branch for a touch of elegance . |
| 19 | Lalage jumped out of the car and waited , hopping from foot to foot like a child longing to pee , while Dada and Aunt Tossie slowly disembarked . |
| 20 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 21 | In a simple conditioning procedure the value of V will grow from trial to trial as a result of CS-US pairings and in consequence the value of a will fall . |
| 22 | Dulé survived , however , to be brought to trial as a ringleader , to be an example to others . |
| 23 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 24 | Each of these aspects has its place as a foundation for faith , though the church 's part is not so much essential to faith as an expression of faith . |
| 25 | As such , tax diversion was not entitled to protection as a manifestation nf a philosophical belief in practice in the way that other acts , more intimately linked to the belief ( for example , acts of worship ) would be . |
| 26 | They were never to become what you would call bosom friends , however , because every time Dawn went to Mum for a cuddle , Mum would sneeze and send her flying beak over tail across the room . |
| 27 | Two senior editors of Novi Sad television news were suspended on April 8 , 1990 , for giving greater prominence in a news bulletin to coverage of an election rally in Croatia by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ — the eventual winners in the election — see p. 37381 ) than to a rally in Belgrade attended by Milosevic commemorating the 175th anniversary of the second Serbian uprising against the Turks . |
| 28 | A ‘ chambermaid ’ who looks about eighty goes from tent to tent with a wheelbarrow full of logs and lays all the fires in the dustbin-like metal stoves . |
| 29 | Sorauf argues that fundamental changes in American society and politics rather than money made candidates and interest groups chief actors in the campaign finance they own turned to money as a result of their enhanced power . |
| 30 | And of course there were still a few who would never have dreamt of asking themselves whether they could afford anything , with the attitude to money of an Algernon Moncrieff . |