Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the council of Gumley in Leicestershire two years later , possibly as a response to some of Boniface 's criticisms , Aethelbald issued a grant of privileges to the churches in Mercia , conceding immunity from royal food-rents and from all works and burdens except the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies ( CS 140 , 178 : S 92 ) . |
| 2 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 3 | Marx accepted this general point implicitly though he nowhere discussed it in full [ Krader , 1972:36 ] and it was to offer a framework to much of his later writing . |
| 4 | The directorate of a company has a responsibility to those with whom they deal as people rather than just as instruments of profit . |
| 5 | Not just one woman 's battle but a plea to all of us to understand the problem . |
| 6 | The case of Zambia offers a contrast to that of Nepal . |
| 7 | The history of the rural paramilitary organisations is a contrast to that of the Belfast UDA and the other urban ones . |
| 8 | The House also has the power to admonish or issue a reprimand to those in contempt . |
| 9 | While Vadinamia will never be a rival to any of the known holiday-resort worlds , it has a few things to offer by way of amusement . |
| 10 | Evidently there is a cost both to the producer or utterer of the discourse ( U ) and to the interpreter of the discourse ( I ) , and also a pay-off to both of these entities . |
| 11 | But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it . |
| 12 | Dr Campuzano of Mexico likens the action of a remedy to that of a wave breaking upon the beach . |
| 13 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 14 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 15 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 16 | What with the Santa Cruz Operation 's new president Lars Turndal being the new kid on the block and a stranger to most of the people who 'll have to deal with him , we thought we 'd give a little of his background . |
| 17 | Manpower may hold a key to many of the policies adopted by the Romans in dealing with the barbarians . |
| 18 | Mungo longed to be alone with the book ; to see if , between its stained purple bindings , it held a key to any of the mysteries perplexing him . |
| 19 | [ music ] There is a corollary to this in the curious offset notes and phrases of the vocal melody which lend a kind of speech colour to the basically simple tonal language , while giving mobility to the harmony ( a change of direction in an unaccompanied vocal figure may lead unceremoniously to a change of key ) . |
| 20 | Clinton smiled and sketched a bow to both of us . |
| 21 | I suppose once we 're back home this will look like a dream to both of us , rather unlikely in the face of reality . |
| 22 | The sequence of events in the creation of a bank bill is in Figure 9.4 , and is only a modification to that for commercial bills . |
| 23 | Benji is an ex-champion Prix St Georges dressage horse with a wonderfully laidback temperament and is used as a schoolmaster to many of Catherston 's pupils . |
| 24 | The governor became a hero to many of his staff and prisoners , including the one slashed . |
| 25 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 26 | According to Gregory the division of 561 was in many respects a return to that of 511 ; Charibert I received Paris , Guntram Orléans , Sigibert I Rheims and Chilperic I Soissons . |
| 27 | Children 's Corner is full of treasures , promises younger spectators the magic of live story-telling and offers adults a return to some of the enchanted places of childhood . |
| 28 | Where an application is granted , the licensing board shall grant the licence or transfer in the names of both persons mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) above , and any reference in this Act to the holder of a licence includes a reference to both of those persons . |
| 29 | ( 7 ) Where a licensing board declares a provisional grant final in such a case as is described in subsection ( 6 ) above , the licence shall be in the names of both persons mentioned in that subsection , and any reference in this Act to the holder of a licence includes a reference to both of those persons . |
| 30 | The 1970's can not be concluded without a reference to some of the societies who have enjoyed a special relationship with Henley and which started in this decade . |