Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 2 | The Asian Development Bank awarded a consultancy to BGS to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 3 | In the case of n-grams , there are 13,166 legal quad-grams of the total possible combinations ( from the above 14,000 word dictionary ) , a reduction to 3% compared to 0.3% for words . |
| 4 | If the costs are not paid then , except where a defence to costs has been filed , the plaintiff may enter judgment in default for them . |
| 5 | For example , the Functionalist-based theories see crime and delinquency as a response to frustrations arising from lower social position and status . |
| 6 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 7 | ‘ No , perhaps not , since it 's usually a response to things lost , or ended , and you still have Jones , ’ Luke conceded cynically . |
| 8 | Consent is essentially a response to initiatives taken by someone else . |
| 9 | The 1987 Act is therefore partly a response to lessons learnt at that time . |
| 10 | Its acreage expanded quickly as a response to demand fuelled by the emergence of the automobile industry . |
| 11 | A statue to Balboa stands near the Pacific exit of the Panama Canal , in the town named in his honour . |
| 12 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 13 | This is a privilege for which no legatee could hope , since if the heir took a fancy to property left by legacy , he could keep it on payment of a ( no doubt inflated ) valuation of its worth to the legatee . |
| 14 | The CPSU draft programme as published on Aug. 8 contained alterations to the version endorsed at the July plenum , as a concession to conservatives designed to prevent a split in the party . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 17 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 18 | The issue of a link to Balerno has been covered by the report . |
| 19 | In chapter X of A Preface to Paradise Lost ( London : Oxford University Press , 1942 ) , C. S. Lewis gave a summary list of doctrines of the Fall of Man common to Milton , to St Augustine , and to ‘ the Church as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | Only two weeks ago , Hendry sent a plea to Roxburgh asking for his chance at the highest level . |
| 21 | She made a plea to councillors representing the area to stick by their voters and ensure buses continue to serve the estate . |
| 22 | And Cowan departed with a plea to Portadown to end his uncertainty , saying : ‘ I need to know how I 'm fixed for next season . |
| 23 | Then on 28th May , 1858 , the influential Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton sent a plea to Manners saying ‘ that Gothic is best adopted for the Offices ’ . |
| 24 | This is potentially very strong language but it is also a plea to God to remove her from her misery . |
| 25 | The salmon farmers want a change to rents set per square metre of sea cages , similar to the principle of farm rents . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Political Union was conceived late in the day , partly in response to the dramatic changes in Central Europe and partly as a complement to EMU designed to placate , if not to satisfy , the European Parliament and those favouring its strengthening . |
| 27 | The new space will enable the three departments to exhibit on a three- to four-month rotating basis , showing up to seventy-five works per time . |
| 28 | The Corinthians sent a delegation to Athens to try to prevent the second of these appeals from succeeding . |
| 29 | 500 teachers in Gloucestershire went on strike and sent a delegation to London to back an appeal against a 10 million pound cut in county budgets . |
| 30 | And er , I would like to propose that this Committee , together with the National Farmers ' Union and Country Ploughmens ' Association sends a delegation to London to meet with the Minister to discuss these issues and other , our concerns . |