Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , however , there has been a reversion to analysis of pre-historic artefacts in terms of their contextual social relations , as semiotic and ideological representations , with respect both to users in the past and for us today ( e.g. Hodder ed. 1982 ; Miller and Tilley eds 1984 ) . |
| 2 | A complete list of requirements will enable Council to present a case to Government for extra funds and will allow Council and partners ( especially local authorities ) to plan expenditure . |
| 3 | Oh that one look 's a bit to bit to tight does n't it ? |
| 4 | The line from Rapperswil and Pfaffikon to Arth-Goldau also has a branch to Einsiedeln from the station at Biberbrugg . |
| 5 | Tell him to get his men into the Rorim , and to send a runner to Luib on the gates . |
| 6 | Microsoft Corp Windows NT will be supported as a client — Banyan will wait to see how the market shapes up before making a decision to port to the server version . |
| 7 | Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ? |
| 8 | However , there are some misgivings about development which tends to boost land and house prices without providing significant job opportunities for ‘ ordinary ’ people or , apparently , acting as much of a catalyst to growth in the rest of the local economy . |
| 9 | Instead ‘ failure ’ is something endlessly repeated and relived moment by moment throughout our individual histories … . feminism 's affinity with psychoanalysis rests above all , I would argue , with this recognition that there is a resistance to identity at the very heart of psychic life . |
| 10 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 11 | James II was conveyed by stratagem in a chest to Leith from Edinburgh Castle and then on to Stirling by sea . |
| 12 | If there is a defence to liability for the amount determined , the party seeking the bankruptcy or winding-up order may be ordered to pay the costs of the insolvency proceedings . |
| 13 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 14 | Perhaps the real purpose is then a response to fears of a Leviathan in local government . |
| 15 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 16 | However , this attitude can also represent a response to feelings of rejection by his wife who now has other things to occupy her , or an unwillingness to play a full part in the parental role . |
| 17 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 18 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 19 | This is because of the widespread development of partial resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics by the gonococcus , due to its evolution as a response to changes in its environment . |
| 20 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 21 | Possibly , I mean aggression could be a response to lack of self-confidence you 're quite right . |
| 22 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 23 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | The decree was in part a response to months of student protest against the court ruling , some of the strongest of which had occurred in November 1989 . |
| 26 | The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) . |
| 27 | He said that the integration with the PSOE was a response to events in eastern Europe and predicted that " before long , other communists will follow the same path " . |
| 28 | Suharto 's advancement of a pro-democratic line was in part a response to pressure from sections of the armed forces ( ABRI ) . |
| 29 | The policy of " resource security of major new industrial wood processing projects " was introduced under Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 1991 , in what was seen as a response to pressure from the timber industry and an impending general election . |
| 30 | They were also a response to demands for a form of participation . |