Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an hour to get to the library , do his research and return for Maisie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The publisher is offered an opportunity to respond to the Government 's response . |
| 6 | Later it would be helpful if both were given an opportunity to talk to the ward sister and doctor . |
| 7 | Employees said that they would like further presentations and an opportunity to talk to the directors of other departments in the future . |
| 8 | Many , however , did have an opportunity to talk to the advisers responsible for multicultural education , provision for equal opportunities and children with special needs . |
| 9 | The head of Northend saw the appraisal as an opportunity to present to the LEA a case for extra staff to be appointed . |
| 10 | Each group will identify a task , an opportunity to contribute to the success of their department . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was on his way to Roedean in another cab to fulfil an engagement to speak to the girls of the sixth form . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
| 19 | an instruction to reproduce to the same size as the original . |
| 20 | It will then be necessary to negotiate with the adjoining owner , either to acquire the land in question or to obtain an easement to conform to the conditions in perpetuity . |
| 21 | ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict . |
| 22 | Government had an obligation to react to the threat , and the certain erosion of the amount of land available to tenants . |
| 23 | The liability to repay the deposit at the end of the term remained throughout on the original landlord and was an obligation to repay to the original tenant . |
| 24 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 25 | They assumed that they had been moved into the area these smells were coming from and , in an endeavour to return to the loft , those with olive oil on their bills flew north , while those with turpentine on flew south . |
| 26 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 27 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 28 | Other newspapers carried similar articles in an effort to show to the Beida students that something was being done quickly about the case . |
| 29 | If so , it might be an idea to talk to the people who not only insure aeroplanes , but fly them as well ! |
| 30 | Do you think it might be an idea to speak to the er to first and get their resp so I 've got their response I think you |