Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 2,000 people took part on March 8 in what were described as the biggest demonstrations in Tonga in living memory , in protest at a decision to grant citizenship to more than 400 foreigners . |
| 2 | TRAINEE beauty therapists face an uncertain future because of a decision to cut funding to their college . |
| 3 | The company strategic plan will always include a budget allocating resources to each function , including R&D , in terms of staff and funds . |
| 4 | I take no pleasure in bringing this case before the House , although his example may well prove a catalyst to bring help to fellow sufferers . |
| 5 | He also showed a willingness to give business to new firms , such as Saxton Bampfylde , as well as more old-established businesses like GKR and Clive & Stokes . |
| 6 | AT THE END of a week in which Eoin Jess 's splendid performance for Scotland against Malta turned the spotlight on the next generation of international footballers , Premier Division managers across the country yesterday indicated a willingness to add spice to this afternoon 's card by giving youth a fling . |
| 7 | Following the talks the then East German Prime Minister , Hans Modrow , acknowledged that his country bore a share of responsibility for the Nazi war crimes and expressed a willingness to pay reparations to victims . |
| 8 | Each way of generating a sentence gives rise to a rooted tree , called its parse tree . |
| 9 | The presence of generalized person in the infinitive also explains how this verb form can be " without person or number " and yet have " a reference to some subject " ( Brown 1884 : 336 – 7 ) : the fact that the infinitive does contain a support gives rise to the impression that the event is referred to a " potential subject " , that is , to what would have been the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 10 | The system means that all companies within a building have access to a staff restaurant facility without the cost of installing their own kitchen and restaurant . |
| 11 | It would need the pen of a Zola to do justice to the reality and appalling intensity of the famine in these parts ( Saratov and Samara ) . |
| 12 | The Court said obiter that presenting a cheque gave rise to the same representations . |
| 13 | Usually , there is no great difficulty in translating from a description using predicates to one using functions , or the other way round . |
| 14 | Modelling aid Retrieval from a conventional filing system relies on either alphabetic or numeric indexation but the use of a computer enables data to be retrieved on a range of factors , either individually or simultaneously . |
| 15 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
| 16 | You sound like a moose giving birth to a hedgehog , ’ Kirk Douglas , The Vikings |
| 17 | The number of days in a month will obviously depend on the month in question ; thus if a contract requires goods to be paid for within one month of delivery , and goods are delivered on 19 February , they must be paid for by 19 March ( see Dodds v Walker [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1061 ) . |
| 18 | He had a contract to supply arms to Iran and wanted our help in setting up the deal . |
| 19 | A German company ( S ) entered into a contract to supply machinery to an English customer ( B ) who , as representatives of the German company knew , spoke no German . |
| 20 | If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price . |
| 21 | As has been seen , the assisted party is under no obligation to pay any costs to the solicitor whatever the result ; but may be under a liability to pay costs to a successful opponent . |
| 22 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 23 | If transfer prices are set high enough then , as a division sells goods to other divisions , it will be able to make profits . |
| 24 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 25 | But the logic of punk 's evangelistic drive to change things led to a attempt to take demystification to the people : the pop deconstruction of ABC ( exposing pop 's stage managing , as on the sleeve of The Lexicon of Love ) and Scritti Politti ( affirming and unravelling , simultaneously , the lover 's non-sensical discourse ) . |
| 26 | Mrs Totteridge was clearly of a mind to impute criminality to the entire population . |
| 27 | Unilever shares were given a boost adding 7p to 1069p before slipping to close at 1064p . |
| 28 | A gain is taxed as a balancing charge , while a loss gives rise to a balancing allowance that can be used to reduce taxable earnings . |
| 29 | A composer adds music to the basic shapes of language as a poet adds poetry to notions . |
| 30 | A second convention met in July 1833 and in an effort to improve the bill had a delegation denounce apprenticeship to Stanley 's face and managed to unite behind a Buxton amendment that apprenticeship should be for no longer than was required for the welfare of the slave . |