Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) If it is proposed that the target , the offeror or any other person will make a payment to one of the target 's directors for loss of , or retirement from , office in connection with the takeover , then the payment may need to be approved by the target 's shareholders in general meeting in accordance with CA 1985 , s312 or s314 ( see para 8.1.5 below ) . |
| 2 | A contribution by a function to one of the key activities is indicated by a symbol at the intersection . |
| 3 | Mr relied on the same table to produce a figure of twenty point two five pounds on a life expectancy of fifty five years and accepted a reduction to twenty for the whole life multiplier . |
| 4 | The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts . |
| 5 | And he was able to fit a face and provisionally a temperament to four of them . |
| 6 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 7 | Stewart used the ‘ tennis-ball ’ bounce to advantage with some stirring boundary hits , but he too fell to a lifter , topping a pull to one of the two men placed deep behind square . |
| 8 | In a preface to one of my favourite sketches , ‘ First Flight ’ , Joyce wrote : ‘ Goodness is almost impossible to show on stage . |
| 9 | First , a presentation founded so largely on the view that equates the development of industrial democracy to the growth of the process of consultation by management of unions intent on retaining their traditional role which opposes them to management , does not provide a credible basis for the qualitative change , envisaged by the Report , in that role : a change to one of shared responsibility for management . |
| 10 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 11 | In the second book , a photograph is spoken of which ‘ shows the pulling down of a monument to one of the Shahs ( father or son ) in Teheran or some other Iranian city . |
| 12 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 13 | A memorial fund has been set up in his native village to build a monument to one of Ulster 's less remembered legion of fighting men . |
| 14 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
| 15 | I won a scholarship to one of the Day School Trust schools and we were able to study what we wanted . |
| 16 | Lateran Councils I to III were a prelude to one of Christianity 's greatest of all assemblies , Lateran IV , summoned by Innocent III to meet in November 1215 . |
| 17 | A male streaker ran on , jumped the stumps , and wondered what to do next without being quite as perplexed as England 's batsmen , and while four policemen carted his away , and the oh-so-clever scoreboard operators put runs on the board before they were even completed , Ramprakash creamed Mushtaq through the covers as a prelude to one of the most anguished dismissals of the series . |
| 18 | Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class . |
| 19 | There was a gentle pitch down to 145 kts followed by a nose-up to 125 before settling back again at 135 kts . |
| 20 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 21 | They saw — and no doubt often found in their own homes — that this method of buying , if properly used was a godsend to thousands of people , especially to young couples setting up their first home and families moved from old houses or furnished rooms to new estates and towns . |
| 22 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) A reference to a Rule is a reference to one of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 24 | Other issues on which morals can be drawn are whether dreams are forewarnings of events to come , and the image of woman as man 's confusion : the latter point , though , the Nun 's Priest himself refuses to present seriously : The burlesque treatment of matters of moral seriousness in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reaches its climax in the middle of the tale , with a reference to one of the crucial dilemmas or mysteries for Christian philosophers : that of reconciling human free will with the necessary truth of God 's Providence . |
| 25 | Singapore : The Straits Times index inched up 0.73 of a point to 1,420.91 in moderate trading . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 27 | The outcome of this magnanimity was that True Valiance was allowed a doubtful annex to Ixmar 's pantheon , instated as a squire to one of Ixmar 's sons . |
| 28 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 29 | Middlesex , the other championship joint leaders , had Durham in trouble at 27 for three at Gateshead Fell but an unbeaten 85 by Paul Parker brought about a recovery to 175 for seven . |
| 30 | Initially the cash flow will be negative , rising from a low figure due to the relatively small resources needed for selecting and planning the project , increasing steeply as investment in production plant and methods begins then returning in a curve to zero as development is completed and production begins . |