Example sentences of "an [noun] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advantage to night city scenes is that darkness cloaks these elements which give a location its regional quality . |
| 2 | An advantage to night city scenes is that darkness cloaks these elements which give a location its regional quality . |
| 3 | An addition to toxicity review series , the document is a critical summary of the international scientific and medical literature with animal studies , health surveys and epidemiological data also reviewed . |
| 4 | The trustees of the late H C Stenhouse 's inter vivos trust appealed against an assessment to capital transfer tax in respect of a capital distribution , on 17 March 1978 , of shares in H and SW ( unquoted investment companies ) , and SH . |
| 5 | If you handle a consumer product for a manufacturer you deal with members of the press on an hour to hour basis . |
| 6 | Jacobite sentiment had become more widespread by the end of Anne 's reign , and also more distinctively Tory in nature , but it was an attachment to Country ideology , and a deep hostility to the Whigs and Dissenters ( and what they stood for ) , which was its main defining characteristic . |
| 7 | Among her mentors were John Elliot Cairnes , W. Leonard Courtney , and W. A. Hunter [ qq.v. ] , from whom she learned an attachment to laissez-faire economics and liberal political principles . |
| 8 | He says there 's a desperate need for an antidote to bird damage . |
| 9 | Originally , the deli was an antidote to culture shock , where all the salt , sweet , hot , sharp , garlicky flavours of home could be conjured up between two pieces of bread . |
| 10 | The role of a positive mental set , i.e. deliberately looking out for a panic attack as an opportunity to practice self-control techniques , rather than running away from it , supports the school of thought that views a panic attack as largely cognitive — behavioural in nature . |
| 11 | There is also an entitlement to maternity pay for six weeks at 90% of pay and a further 12 weeks on maternity benefit . |
| 12 | The Queen congratulated the city in a letter from an aide to Lord Mayor Mike Black last week . |
| 13 | The crew of the Mystic 60 Elysia included in their pre-race manoeuvres an attempt to catapult water bombs on to the warship committee boat . |
| 14 | Only when independence under majority rule seemed assured were statutory corporations established by the departing British in an attempt to distance broadcasting from the newly Africanized political and governmental arena . |
| 15 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 16 | On a Chunky machine an alternative to cotton thread is one end of 2/30 industrial yarn . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 18 | The bonds , which offer a fixed rate return for a stated period subject generally to some conditions , have been marketed by some sales agents as an alternative to building society deposit accounts . |
| 19 | Test Pack 2 simply provides an alternative to Test Pack 1 — especially useful if you need to test the same student again , at a later date . |
| 20 | Finally , this approach can be used as an alternative to premethylation interference experiments whenever the strong positive charge introduced at the positions of methylation seems to influence DNA-protein interactions or binding equilibria . |
| 21 | I am pleased to see the Secretary of State for Social Security in his place , because he has said that the decision in January 1991 to stop such payments was taken because ’ It has never been the intention , nor is it sensible , that in the generality of cases Housing Benefit should be available as an alternative to income support ’ . |
| 22 | The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost . |
| 23 | An alternative to spending money on goods and services is to purchase securities ( e.g. government bonds , company shares ) . |
| 24 | The families of the two dead teenagers say there must have been an alternative to opening fire . |
| 25 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 26 | It would seem that perhaps browsing at the shelves should not be considered as an alternative to catalogue use ; instead browsing support at the catalogue could bee seen as perhaps improving retrieval effectiveness at the shelves by providing direction or orientation through navigational aids . |
| 27 | Pruteen® , for example , is one such product which was developed by ICI plc in the 1960s and early 1970s mainly as an alternative to soya-bean meal . |
| 28 | The flat rate scheme is an alternative to VAT registration ; any farmer will have the choice of staying VAT-registered , or deregistering and becoming a flat rate farmer . |
| 29 | In these areas 20 per cent of the farms sampled indulged in farm tourism , but most farmers saw it as a supplement rather than as an alternative to farm income , although Davies argued that it could be a much more profitable use of the farms ' resources . |
| 30 | CIT 's honourary president the Princess Royal said at Light Rail 91 in Manchester that public transport had to be seen as an improvement not just as an alternative to car use . |