Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RESIDENTS have voiced growing concern over ambulance coverage in Teesdale after an ambulance took more than half an hour to respond to an emergency call . |
| 2 | PEOPLE in Teesdale are worried about ambulance cover after a vehicle took half an hour to respond to an emergency call . |
| 3 | He had an hour to get to the library , do his research and return for Maisie . |
| 4 | It must take him at least half an hour to get to the point of the flash and back to his own bank , even if it turned out to be a wild goose chase and he was able to return immediately . |
| 5 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 6 | and , and if you wan na come home , there 's supposed to be a bus at half past four , and our lecture finished at quarter to four , so you like , three quarters of an hour to get to the bus , right , and then it did n't turn up . |
| 7 | The publisher is offered an opportunity to respond to the Government 's response . |
| 8 | Later it would be helpful if both were given an opportunity to talk to the ward sister and doctor . |
| 9 | Employees said that they would like further presentations and an opportunity to talk to the directors of other departments in the future . |
| 10 | Many , however , did have an opportunity to talk to the advisers responsible for multicultural education , provision for equal opportunities and children with special needs . |
| 11 | Should the export of live slaughter animals be approved it could strengthen primestock prices and offer finishers an opportunity to sell to a wider range of markets . |
| 12 | The head of Northend saw the appraisal as an opportunity to present to the LEA a case for extra staff to be appointed . |
| 13 | This presents an opportunity to contribute to an important issue of social policy — the pattern of association between disease , especially childhood cancer , and sources of environmental pollution . |
| 14 | Each group will identify a task , an opportunity to contribute to the success of their department . |
| 15 | Our silence offers God an opportunity to speak to the soul and it can provide blessed relief from over-activity and the torrent of speech and song with which we assail both his ears and our own . |
| 16 | He was on his way to Roedean in another cab to fulfil an engagement to speak to the girls of the sixth form . |
| 17 | In an attempt to move to a slightly more problem-based system of enquiry recording the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux ( SACAB ) developed the categorisation shown in Figure 5.9 . |
| 18 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 19 | It is an attempt to conform to a divine reality and standard that the soul can not ‘ see ’ at this early stage but which she has to take on faith . |
| 20 | This is not an attempt to return to a nineteenth-century form of laissez-faire but to change the structures of our society in a direction more consonant with our Christian principles . |
| 21 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 22 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 23 | It is again an attempt to retreat to the position that only those weapons are prohibited which are specifically referred to in a ratified treaty . |
| 24 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 25 | However two of the possee went over the fence in an attempt to get to a nightclub in Bristol . |
| 26 | For example , the general law requires an agent to account to a principal for any profit made e.g. by way of commission , out of the principal 's business . |
| 27 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
| 28 | There are such cases — where a novel idea originated with the Committee 's Opinion and is then taken into the legislation , where a national judge or European Advocate-General cites a Committee report or where a member of the European Parliament says in evidence that he will prepare an amendment to respond to a concern expressed by a sub-committee and then does so . |
| 29 | an instruction to reproduce to the same size as the original . |
| 30 | Patsy said her daughter had declined an offer to speak to a newspaper . |