Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps the real purpose is then a response to fears of a Leviathan in local government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Possibly , I mean aggression could be a response to lack of self-confidence you 're quite right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court on Dec. 7 dealt a blow to supporters of the right to an abortion by refusing to review a Mississippi law which required women to obtain counselling and then to wait 24 hours before terminating a pregnancy . |
| 9 | Erm that is n't a constraint to consideration of new settlement sites in the A sixty four corridor . |
| 10 | And please help our vital campaigns by sending a donation to Friends of the Earth . |
| 11 | The Garden , under its Director Professor D.S. Ingram , specialises in taxonomic botany , which serves as a backbone to studies of biodiversity , biotechnology , and applied botanical research , as well as to plant physiology , genetics and many other plant-based sciences . |
| 12 | And it was a fight for the f towards the end of the week it was a fight to sort of say , Well , Sha n't be able to move it , use it until t the man comes . |
| 13 | I exorcized the mental terror by talking about it , using the experience as a demonstration to students of the mental attitude one must try to adopt on an excavation . |
| 14 | PRESTO puppeteers are giving a demonstration to children of manipulation and puppet making at Winsford Community Arts Centre at 10am tomorrow . |
| 15 | The derivation is based on the interpretation of a bond as a composition of an annuity ( which provides the coupon stream ) and a zero-coupon bond ( which provides the principal repayment ) represented by ( using ( 5.29 ) with P d = B = 100 and d = rp T ) : where rp T is the par yield for a term to maturity of T years , where the discount factor D T is the fair price of a zero-coupon bond with par value of 1 and a term to maturity of T years , and where is the fair price of an annuity of 1 per year for T years ( with A o = 0 by convention ) . |
| 16 | The derivation is based on the interpretation of a bond as a composition of an annuity ( which provides the coupon stream ) and a zero-coupon bond ( which provides the principal repayment ) represented by ( using ( 5.29 ) with P d = B = 100 and d = rp T ) : where rp T is the par yield for a term to maturity of T years , where the discount factor D T is the fair price of a zero-coupon bond with par value of 1 and a term to maturity of T years , and where is the fair price of an annuity of 1 per year for T years ( with A o = 0 by convention ) . |
| 17 | The rate of return on this investment would be the one-year rolling yield for a term to maturity of ten years . |
| 18 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 19 | This filter has proved a boom to keepers of sensitive fish by keeping nitrate levels under control but its operation needs to be constantly monitored . |
| 20 | The next morning , the Prior , true to his word , immediately sent off a courier to Thomas of Learmouth whilst Corbett despatched one of his retinue with his letter to Burnell . |
| 21 | As a result of what was reportedly a wide-ranging discussion , it was agreed to establish as a prelude to discussion of the Union Treaty two bilateral commissions to negotiate on the most contentious issues in USSR-Russian Federation relations , namely the delineation of state powers , ownership of state property , and the rights to dispose of natural resources . |
| 22 | PPB and ZBB are largely ignored in the UK and , as a prelude to part of the discussion in chapter 7 , this chapter concludes by outlining the strategy adopted by central government since the mid-1960s . |
| 23 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 24 | The profit attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to 524 million which , after dividends of 237 million , resulted in a transfer to reserves of 287 million . |
| 25 | Knowing that John was alive , that fact was a spur to action of some kind . |
| 26 | Among the solutions proposed at the conference were increased emphasis on sustainable logging and the production of finished wood products , a halt to exports of raw logs , retraining loggers and employing them on repairing damaged forests and rivers . |
| 27 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
| 28 | He had been a successful stage actor in high school and college , a pioneer in the young radio business , a journeyman screen performer , a television personality , a speechmaker to audiences of all description , author of a syndicated newspaper column . ’ |
| 29 | The relevance of such a test to works of art , particularly literature , which deals with private , not public behaviour , is hard to see . |
| 30 | It is a help to members of the media if they know the responsibility of the contact ( eg organiser , development officer , secretary etc ) . |