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

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1 Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) .
2 In addition , British membership of Nato and of the Commonwealth held out the possibility of access to a multiplicity of markets .
3 All viewers have a right of access to a variety of programmes , at prime viewing time , which respond to their requirements concerning information , culture and entertainment without any other restriction than payment of a fee .
4 What method of access to a correction point does the system use :
5 introduced rights to check certain personal records held on computer , and supported new rights of access to a range of government records ;
6 The combination of lack of access to a car , difficulty in using public transport because of the increased likelihood of disability , and inaccessible location of necessary services , means that older people are both more likely to have difficulty walking and yet more likely to depend on walking as means of getting about .
7 Other methods to measure accessibility have involved questionnaire surveys of hospital visits ( Haynes and Bentham , 1979 ) or matrices of distance from various centres of population as shown in Table 6.4 , or surveys of access to a car as shown in Table 6.5 .
8 If the jurisdiction were mandatory and the House of Lords refused or failed to exercise it , then another issue under the Convention would arise , that of access to a tribunal .
9 Here we are concerned in particular with the right to silence and the right of access to a solicitor .
10 Compounding the problem were proposals to remove asylum seekers right of access to a solicitor under the legal aid scheme .
11 In Francis ' case , a serious breach was involved in keeping him incommunicado , but this was ( to use the trial judge 's expression ) ‘ counterbalanced ’ by the belated granting of access to a solicitor and Francis ' subsequent decision to sign the notes as correct .
12 The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round .
13 hi — there is a man with access to a SCANNER ! !
14 British public libraries have in the past 10 years diversified very considerably by providing their public with access to a variety of non-book materials .
15 Each suggests the location of the settlements in favourable lowland situations with access to a variety of different types of land in different environments , with areas of upland , pasture or woodland at some distance , and the main areas of arable and pasture near to the settlements ( Fig. 59 ) .
16 Unfortunately , for the traditional printing and graphic arts industries , the desktop publishing ‘ revolution ’ has taken place largely outside their control and has placed the capability to generate complex artwork directly in the hands of anyone with access to a computer and around £1,000 or less for the necessary software .
17 Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer .
18 This could involve the institution of worker management ( discussed more fully in the following section ) with access to a state ‘ management consultancy ’ service .
19 Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise .
20 Significantly lower random haemoglobin A 1 values were found among patients in practices with access to a community or hospital dietitian , with a practice nurse skilled in diabetic care , or which ran miniclinics .
21 With access to a typewriter he could even knock off another column about the lighter side of his literary tour , not mentioning any of the events at Perth .
22 Since the monarchy is in so many respects the visible representation of the nation , the merest whiff of criticism draws the fire of every tub-thumping little Englander with access to a microphone .
23 Only one bugbear remains : the members ' obstinate refusal to grant full rights to Lancashire 's women subscribers , including access to a pavilion which remains a bastion of male chauvinism .
24 Farmers change their minds about access to a river at the last minute , according to the vagaries of the harvest .
25 Clearly it is not possible to rely on this form of public transport for commuting to work or for visits to local towns for access to a range of services .
26 Companies profit from access to a network of university expertise far beyond individual scheme programmes and graduate associates mature rapidly , Dr Burge .
27 Companies profit from access to a network of university expertise far beyond individual scheme programmes and graduate associates mature rapidly , Dr Burge .
28 What is required is the education and assistance of users if their research depends on access to a multiplicity of databases and catalogues , to understand the construction of electronic catalogues , their associated approaches to subject indexing and cataloguing .
29 Assuming that research is likely to depend on access to a multiplicity of sources and databases , users will need such expert advice .
30 The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons .
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