Example sentences of "to an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The denial , to the general public , of open access to the countryside led to an intensification of the fifty-year struggle for legislative changes culminating in the mass trespasses of the early 1930s . |
| 2 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 3 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 4 | It was rooted in a cast of mind raised to an ethic in the professions . |
| 5 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 6 | A similar strategy , explored by Salop and Scheffman ( 1987 ) , is where integration or contracts entered into by the incumbent have the effect of raising rivals costs , e.g. where a contract with a supplier specifies that an input will only be supplied to an entrant at a higher price than that enjoyed by the incumbent . |
| 7 | Mucosal erosion as a result of the artery protruding into the overlying mucosa or focal gastritis leads to an exposure of the vessel and results in bleeding . |
| 8 | Eccleshall points to the fact that Burke traced the horrors of revolutionary France to an unveiling of illusions : |
| 9 | It is now time to call attention to an incongruity in the conception of the rational man from which this chapter started . |
| 10 | Related ideas like shared writing , dictated writing and invented spelling together with the introduction of new technology including the word processor should all contribute to an easing of the tension associated with traditional attitudes to spelling and handwriting . |
| 11 | Either traverse right until just right of the arête , then boldly straight up on small holds to an easing in the angle and protection , or take a lower traverse across the wall until it is possible to work back up and leftwards to join the direct way at the protection . |
| 12 | For the West , however , there were promises of greater respect for human rights in the Soviet bloc and of increased East-West contacts , all of which could lead to an easing in Russian domination of Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | According to the Wall Street Journal , former IBM Corp chairman John Akers is ‘ still technically an IBM employee , though he has lost his title , his board seat and his office at IBM 's Armonk , New York headquarters — he and his secretary have been quietly relocated to an IBM building in Stamford , Connecticut ; ’ we seem to recall something similar happening to an editor of the late lamented Datalink — first he was told he was no longer editor , but that there was a desk in Computing 's office — until Computing decided it needed it , whereupon a desk was found in the library , whereupon he resigned . |
| 14 | It belonged to an editor from the Guardian , the main sponsors of Writers Internationale . |
| 15 | Instead of using the traditional patch in the machine code , the user can switch to an editor in another ‘ window ’ to allow the changes to be made at source . |
| 16 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 17 | Cats have been known to laze , apparently half-asleep , for up to an hour beside a mouse hole , yet instantly to cut down the unwary prey that , even momentarily , shows itself . |
| 18 | One night in June her mother twice had to settle the baby , taking up to an hour on each occasion . |
| 19 | And I just spent three quarters of an hour to an hour with him and he said , Well I 've had a look at this erm , no thanks not for me . |
| 20 | Flavours rapidly evaporate from hot wort while bitterness requires up to an hour to fully develop . |
| 21 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
| 22 | Rigor mortis was notoriously unreliable , and if he wanted an alibi for himself , Kerrison could shift the time of death by up to an hour without suspicion . |
| 23 | Two a , a day as a single dose , strictly on an empty stomach so at least half an hour to an hour before food . |
| 24 | The Vice-Captain pointed to an enclosure within the main stand , exactly behind the flag on the last green . |
| 25 | The justification for protection in these circumstances is that a businessman who is willing to deal on the other party 's standard terms and conditions is probably unable to negotiate a special deal due to an inequality of bargaining power . |
| 26 | But the quest for patriotism with adventure could also lead to an adaptation of C. S. Forester 's true-Brit Forever England ( 1935 ) , in which a lone sailor keeps a German ship occupied until it can be sunk by a British destroyer , and dies a hero 's death in the process . |
| 27 | Can an order for repayment to an investor of money paid by the investor pursuant to an investment transaction induced by a contravention of section 47 be described as an order to take steps to remedy the contravention ? |
| 28 | For this purpose it should be noted that contracts with a UK counterparty may be treated as entered into in the UK , depending on the facts , and the better view is that advice given to an investor in the UK should normally be treated as given in the UK . |
| 29 | According to an indenture to the will of Albert C. Barnes , the eccentric collector who established the foundation to conduct art appreciation classes based on his extraordinary assemblage of paintings , the foundation is specifically forbidden from loaning any works of art . |
| 30 | For as ecological awareness spread among the affluent , the national guilt over the genocide of indi-genous peoples led to an exultation of the Noble Savage , a worship of Nature , and consequently a misanthropy , in the form of deploring the existence of fellow humans . |