Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Vézelay and Saint-Gilles lay on a route to an even more notable city than Compostela , to Rome itself . |
| 2 | These packs are being used by both industry , colleges and individuals to provide the underpinning learning support for S/NVQs , or as a route to an HCIMA qualification . |
| 3 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 4 | Secondary encopresis Children 's bowel control may have relapsed in response to a stressful event like the birth of a baby , a traumatic separation or loss , and this can be seen as a regression to an earlier level of emotional development . |
| 5 | But surely they too would have preferred a decision to an indefinite postponement . |
| 6 | This accords with common sense since if there is a defence to an unlawful demand the most appropriate time to raise it is when the demand is sought to be enforced by action . |
| 7 | The Act provides that it is a defence to an action brought under section 2 that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it or that he voluntarily assumed the risk thereof ( though a person employed as a servant by a keeper of the animal is not to be treated as accepting voluntarily risks incidental to his employment ) . |
| 8 | It is a defence to an action for killing or injuring a dog to prove that : |
| 9 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
| 10 | Even if it is feasible , there is no guarantee that this would provide a defence to an infringement action . |
| 11 | If a patent were to be granted , such prior use is a defence to an infringement action , by section 64 , and could also invalidate the patent if challenged unless such use had not made the invention available to the public . |
| 12 | The first way to avoid such danger is not to plead any general exclusion clause as a defence to an action for a class of liability for which the UCTA renders exclusion clauses unenforceable . |
| 13 | The issue of what must be disclosed ( and when ) in order to obtain a consent which will operate as a defence to an allegation of breach of fiduciary duty , will now be considered . |
| 14 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 15 | Without this element , there would be no way of excluding planned revenge killings , and the argument is that they should be excluded from the defence because a person who plans a response to an affront or a wrong ought to ensure that the response conforms with the law . |
| 16 | The emotional response in a game , play and in drama is a response to an abstraction , to a ‘ bracketing-off ’ from living , and it can be just as intense — possibly even more intense for , knowing it is a second-order experience , one can ‘ release ’ one 's grieving , for example , in a way one would not do in the actual event . |
| 17 | In this chapter we have argued that emotion in drama is real , but that it is nevertheless a modified version of that same emotion felt in an actual event , for the emotional response in drama is a response to an abstraction . |
| 18 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 19 | This was in part a response to an upsurge in militant opposition to food shortages and profiteering which was simultaneously driving many trade unionists into cooperation . |
| 20 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 21 | What does seem to be a reasonable inference , however , is that this child would normally offer a response to an ambiguous or unclear statement on the confident expectation that his choice will be either confirmed or disconfirmed by the speaker . |
| 22 | At any rate , it is reasonable to interpret this very common experience during dreaming as being a response to an awareness , at some level , of the inability to move . |
| 23 | The Hungarian Secretary of State in the Ministry of Trade , Imre Dunai , said on Jan. 19 that the decision was partly a response to an IMF-imposed condition which required Hungary to balance its rouble settlements in order to qualify for further credit . |
| 24 | The Sultan 's endorsement of traditional Moslem values was widely believed to be a response to an increase in social problems , especially unemployment which increased from 3.6 per cent in 1988 to 6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 25 | The Speenhamland proposals were not wholly novel , but as a response to an extraordinary surge in cereal prices their direct tying of relief to a bread scale was a major factor in a widespread adoption of wage supplementation . |
| 26 | One important practical benefit of this rule is that journalists can approach the subject of their investigation for a response to an article in draft , without fear that they will receive a pre-publication injunction instead of a quote . |
| 27 | There is a cartoon which depicts a statue to an elder statesman bearing the inscription , ‘ An inspiration to his country , a leader of men , but still a disappointment to his mother ’ . |
| 28 | Beneath the main body of the creature I placed a small , inflatable rubber ring , one of the type you buy at seasides , connected by a hose to an air pump . |
| 29 | If his opponent is not standing correctly , an attacker can set him up by feinting a blow to an area of the body and following up with a sweep . |
| 30 | The Doctor and his companion were led across a field to an archaeological dig . |