Example sentences of "[to-vb] access to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The lesbian and gay communities seized this opportunity to demand access to the airwaves , calling for more positive representation across the broad span of the schedule , and also for specific gay slots — in particular for a magazine-style programme .
2 Under s47(6) they must take " such steps as are reasonably practicable " to obtain access to the child unless satisfied that they already have sufficient information ( s47(4) ) .
3 7.6.3.4 the Landlord is unable to obtain access to the site for the purposes of rebuilding or reinstating
4 The major role of the school librarian or resources manager is to provide access to the kind of information users require and especially in schools , to help users develop the skills which will enable them to identify the purpose of , find and use that information .
5 This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results .
6 No small group of favourites emerged to monopolize access to the king or royal patronage : even the Hainaulters at court attracted little of the obloquy that surrounded the Savoyards and Henry III 's court , and the families which had suffered forfeiture in the political violence between 1322 and 1330 were gradually restored .
7 In order to simplify access to the data , a set of computer programs enables prospective users of the data not only to obtain data , but to tailor their excerpts from the database precisely to their own requirements .
8 ( This arrangement is used to simplify access to the trigram array as will be explained . )
9 Provided that such persons shall have sufficient reason to require access to the Premises
10 Recently the fishermen warned agency bosses that they were prepared to fight any moves which would restrict their 300-year-old rights to free access to the port .
11 Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed .
12 She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’
13 Nevertheless you do say , do you not , that it is reasonable for this enquiry to consider access to the site , to D thirty nine and D forty , in general terms ?
14 It was suggested that some form of social or governmental control could be used to ensure access to the media for all viewpoints .
15 The United Kingdom and France had sought to protect access to the EC market for bananas from the Caribbean countries , while Germany in particular had been reluctant to penalize imports from Latin American countries , traditionally its main source of bananas .
16 facilities to allow the system manager to control access to the system and the allocation of resources to users .
17 There would be no point in designing software to control access to the video disc , unless suitable interfaces are also available to make it possible for the computer in the system to communicate with the video disc player and control its operation .
18 The judge ordered the Perachi , Maginco and Impar logging companies to remove their employees and machinery from three Indian reserves , and called on the government and Indian agencies to control access to the reserves .
19 Nashua , New Hampshire-based Storage Computer Corp has introduced StorComp RAID 7 which features an asynchronous hard ware design with a real-time embedded operating system to control access to the disk drives and data flow to the host .
20 The court ordered the union to allow access to the accounts with only minimal charges being allowed .
21 Skin preparation before surgery normally involves at least washing and may additionally include body hair removal to allow access to the operation site and also to reduce the risk of infection .
22 At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels .
23 The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore .
24 In the East , ‘ there could be such a lust for reunification for economic reasons , to get access to the prosperity of West Germany , that it will pressurise all the existing political parties into embracing reunification . ’
25 ‘ Assuming Godolphin 's right , and this thing was attempting to get access to the Society , we have to ask why . ’
26 I understand that there is a bomb scare , and that hon. Members are finding it difficult to get access to the Lobbies .
27 Yes , said his critics , but it was a different story if anyone tried to get access to the information behind those methods .
28 The team ran two dummy inspections , testing the effectiveness of forms and learning how to get access to the information .
29 Allowing the buyer to have access to the goods , e.g. to paint or repair , will not amount to giving him possession provided the seller retains control over the goods .
30 3.10 References to any right of the Landlord to have access to the Premises shall be construed as extending to any superior Landlord and any mortgagee of the Premises and to all persons authorised by the Landlord and any superior Landlord or mortgagee ( including agents professional advisers contractors workmen and others ) [ where such superior lease or mortgage grants such rights of access to the superior Landlord or mortgagee ]
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