Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States Congress requested officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to attend an emergency hearing on June 29 to explain the failure of the Hubble Space Telescope and also a decision to ground all space shuttle craft . |
| 2 | For example , values of n = 0.5 and s 1 = 1.1 ( for a 30-year generation ) imply ; = 4.3 , whereas a rise to s 1 = 1.2 implies = 2.2 . |
| 3 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 4 | OLDHAM are to give a debut to South African winger Jamie Bloem against Rochdale at Watersheddings on Tuesday . |
| 5 | If Jarvis does not play , Yorkshire may give a debut to Harrogate born paceman Stuart Milburn who was due to play against Oxford University but that game was abandoned without a ball being |
| 6 | This was to be the sixth show organised by the Priestfields & Ormesby Knitting Club and this year they were hoping to use the proceeds to boost club funds as well as make a donation to Kirkleatham Special School in Redcar . |
| 7 | Criss-crossing Europe and switching between time periods spanning 500 years , this new production by Red Shift is an action-packed thriller which follows three reluctant detectives — a clerk to Henry VIII , a Jacobean architect and a modern interior designer . |
| 8 | Justin : You can always find a scientist to back any position , no matter how absurd . |
| 9 | There is a cross-reference to Rule 13 ( subjective conditions ) . |
| 10 | Belgium has its Coordination Centre regime and has recently extended its participation exemption to gains and so is becoming a rival to locations such as the Netherlands , Luxembourg and Gibraltar for holding companies . |
| 11 | The building is still owned by the United Biscuit Company and is currently leased as a warehouse to telecommunications giant GPT . |
| 12 | The mop is dipped in the cleaning solution , laid flat with the strands extended and worked in a side to side sweeping motion spanning two metres while the operator moves steadily backwards . |
| 13 | Joseph Hanlost on a boost to Mozambique technical independence |
| 14 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 15 | Mr Poole is to lead a delegation to Blackpool next week to see Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , who will be attending the Tory conference . |
| 16 | Yesterday Mr Stevens launched a programme to canvas local opinion about the transfer of management . |
| 17 | The young Wanless , an only child who had been captain of the football team and head boy at his primary school , won a scholarship to Newcastle Royal Grammar School . |
| 18 | and , and erm I put after leaving Needham Market School , I won a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary School for four years . |
| 19 | In 1926 I won a scholarship to Hastings High School for Girls , and was able to have four years of Grammar School education . |
| 20 | He won a scholarship to Halifax Secondary School , sang in the church choir , and became a Scout . |
| 21 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 22 | He signed Samuel Pascoe , Esq , collected a key to room 308 and followed the girl to the lift . |
| 23 | This , together with a rise in TV advertising , helped boost Anglia 's profits by a half to £4.8 million in the six months ended June . |
| 24 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 25 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 26 | When Mark Bright arrived on the Palace scene the following year the duo soon established a marvellously successful striking twosome and it was largely their goals which took the club to the promotion play-offs and a return to Division One in 1989 . |
| 27 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 28 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 29 | This may well be a reference to Psalm 22:18 . |
| 30 | This would now be a reference to s 55 of the 1990 Act . |