Example sentences of "in [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 2 | However , if there are adverse exogenous shocks to the established unionized sector ( such as a worsening of outside opportunities , an adverse demand shock , or increasing polarization in attitudes to the trade union movement ) , then equilibrium wages and membership may fall below the critical level , and the union vanish from the sector . |
| 3 | The campaigners say the decision could mark a watershed in attitudes to the environment , but the local MP says the traffic problems wo n't go away . |
| 4 | There are thus significant differences between places in voting patterns generally , and in attitudes to the debate about growth and the environment , because social and demographic groups are not evenly distributed across the country . |
| 5 | Two years ago she was forced into early retirement because of cuts in funding to the organization where she worked . |
| 6 | His involvement with bridge building started in 1767 , when he was appointed surveyor to direct the widening of the English bridge in Shrewsbury to a design by Robert Mylne [ q.v. ] and then , when that project was abandoned , submitted a design for the new bridge which was rejected in favour of that by John Gwynn [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League . |
| 8 | She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses . |
| 9 | These latter actions highlight an important aspect of the MINSE approach , ie it is not necessarily concerned with changes of a technological nature , but with any that result in improvements to the problem situation ; furthermore , because of the continual participation of the people that the organisation depends on , it helps to ensure a firm commitment to those changes . |
| 10 | In response to a pervasive loss of faith in mid-Victorian economic liberalism , a string of measures had been put through Parliament by Conservative and Liberal Governments in concession to the case against unregulated laissez-faire and for intervention on social grounds by the state . |
| 11 | Such alterations ranged from the introduction of record cards with ‘ unique ’ The 1944 Education Act assessment of character in Sheffield to the attempt to reduce the age-range of candidates in Caernarvonshire to those between the ages of ten and thirteen . |
| 12 | However , Sergei Freidzon , a former Soviet planner , identifies two additional standing bodies : an Institution of Permanent Advisers ( 19 civilians , as well as the CGS and two First Deputy Defence Ministers ) and a larger Institution of Permanent Consultants ( 50 per cent military , 50 per cent civilian ) , both of which are in harness to the Council for much of the year . |
| 13 | Initially , in her sworn depositions , Hildenbrand apparently said that the delay in payment to the gallery was due to an unnamed Japanese intermediary ; Feigen states that she then ‘ admitted in sworn testimony that she had perjured herself , which is a felony , and that the entity owned by Lanzone and herself had in fact received the money $600,000 of it seven months earlier , and then $200,000 and that the money had been spent on Lanzone 's home mortgage and restaurant expenses ’ . |
| 14 | But only 20 of the 72 cases of compensation claims outstanding against contractors and consulting engineers in 1988 resulted in payment to the Department of Transport . |
| 15 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 accordingly applies to a disclaimer in such a form purporting to exclude the valuer 's liability in negligence to the purchaser . |
| 16 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action . |
| 17 | Lord Egremont 's great-uncle , the 3rd Lord Leconfield , gave Petworth House in Sussex to the Trust in 1947 . |
| 18 | In the middle of Bangalore , as you thread through a jungle of exotic trees and overgrown ornamental gardens , cross long neglected croquet lawns , tennis courts and disused summer houses , you are confronted with Windsor Castle , or at least a very passable facsimile locked up and in pawn to the Government to pay Royal debts . |
| 19 | The overthrow of the Ceausescu regime on Dec. 22 , 1989 [ see pp. 37104-05 ] , brought communist rule in Romania to an end . |
| 20 | The duty of Japan to lead Asia in resistance to the West was widely advocated . |
| 21 | Japan , it was said , sought the benefit of Asia as a whole and had a national mission to lead and coordinate the nations of Asia in resistance to the West . |
| 22 | Similarly , Larkin et al. ( 1988 ) have reported somaclonal variation in cultivars of wheat which produced a range of traits in mature individuals , including variation in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate . |
| 23 | The safer cities programme , for example , has resulted in reductions in burglary on a housing estate in Wolverhampton to the tune of 40 per cent . |
| 24 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Army and former military dictator , ordered the Army to step down from a state of full alert on Sept. 24 in response to a telephone call from President Patricio Aylwin Azócar . |
| 25 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 26 | The decision was taken in response to a campaign by Greenpeace against the international trade in waste products and in the wake of a scandal involving the illegal importation of hospital waste from Germany [ see ED 62 ] . |
| 27 | ‘ Mud ! ’ she muttered , Meredith realised not to her but in response to a thought triggered by the weather and important to the speaker . |
| 28 | This is why , in response to a Government 's Citizens ' Charter Initiative , we introduced a Jobseeker 's Charter in December 1991 . |
| 29 | In response to a government appeal the Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the privatization of the state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas to go ahead , overruling a decision taken the previous day in a lower court . |
| 30 | A general strike had already taken place in July in response to a government announcement that agreement had been reached with the IMF on conditions for a standby loan which sources in the capital , Santo Domingo , described as " one of the most drastic programmes ever contemplated by the IMF " . |