Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On completion of the modernisation , the lifts were subject to a one year Defects Liability ( Guarantee ) and free service period , and subsequently have become subject to a new comprehensive Maintenance Contract .
2 She mentions that Southmead Hospital is considering changing to a one year block contract as a means of empowering house officers and helping them to be recognised as an important part of the service provided .
3 She did n't feel up to a zealous dyke conversion .
4 Although all fittings and furniture had been removed it was Ritzy accommodation compared to a mobile incident van or the decayed huts and barn-like halls to which they were accustomed .
5 If the underside of the roof slope is insulated , there must be a gap of 50mm between it and the insulation , and there should also be ventilation openings at the ridge equivalent to a continuous strip 5mm wide running the full length of the ridge .
6 Thus it emerges that a pulse is equivalent to a continuous frequency spectrum of sinusoidal signals .
7 Nevertheless , the whole review programme was testimony to the school 's commitment to a continuous self-evaluation policy as integral to its decision-making process .
8 Their leader played no instrument , but sang a set of unfamiliar words to a familiar war-time tune :
9 In an attempt to control escalating costs , the US Government and insurance companies turned to a prospective payment system , which is a form of prospective reimbursement .
10 In the absence of controls over referrals by non-budget holding GPs , the provision that under such contracts ‘ payment would be on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment by either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with ’ , would appear very similar to a prospective payment system .
11 In a further attempt to control costs , the US Government and insurance companies turned to a prospective payment system , a form of prospective reimbursement .
12 The objection of Mrs Thatcher 's government is to a prospective review process which eventually would lower the barrier on EC scrutinised mergers to a turnover of $2billions .
13 She tracked his middle-aged mistress to a caravan-site love nest only two miles from her bungalow home .
14 In addition to a post-tea batting humiliation , England were reduced to just nine fit men .
15 Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal .
16 On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period .
17 The trial of the wife of the ANC deputy president which had begun on Feb. 4 before the Rand Supreme Court [ see p. 37992 ] reached its climax on May 14 when Mr Justice Stegmann sentenced Winnie Mandela to a six-year prison term .
18 The original owner can always recover subject to a six-year limitation period .
19 To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) .
20 Why is Britain the only country in Europe with no right to a minimum holiday entitlement ?
21 The other is the Brokerage account , which has no minimum deposit or annual fee and allows investors to buy and sell US securities subject to a minimum trade value of $39 .
22 The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard .
23 Euthanasia technically remained a criminal offence subject to a minimum prison sentence of 12 years under Article 293 of the penal code .
24 The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK .
25 Negative Richardson number corresponds to a destabilizing density gradient ; both shear and buoyancy give rise to turbulence generation .
26 Meanwhile the Japanese textile industry will be invited to a major Tencel fashion show in Tokyo in September .
27 Today the firm 's rehearsing a presentation to a major public company which is conducting a beauty parade .
28 It is essential to belong to a major exchange organization , because buyers do not wish to be tied to taking their holidays in the same area year after year .
29 Scottish biologists and a UK government research centre have been accused of giving a green seal of approval to a major logging operation in the South American state of Guyana that could destroy large areas of virgin rainforest .
30 The authors attribute the structure to a major basement fault .
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