Example sentences of "to a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | an advanced education which , while comparable to a university honours degree course in quality and standard , differs from it in method . |
| 2 | Kingstonians won 2–0 thanks to a extra-time goals from Matt Cox and Paul Cootes . |
| 3 | This act brought to a head problems of long standing whose roots were to be found in two factors . |
| 4 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 5 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 6 | A transfer of other real property , such as the holiday home to the wife , will give rise to a capital gains liability if at the time of the transfer , as is more than likely , the parties are separated in such circumstances as are likely to prove permanent or are separated under a court order ( see p16 ) ( see , for example , Aspden v Hildesley [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 264 where a transfer of property which had never been the husband 's main residence was made to the wife six years after the parties separated ) . |
| 7 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 8 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 9 | A Kurator is similar to a specialist careers teacher with additional contributions to make after school . |
| 10 | Cathy Troupp was talking to a specialist couples counsellor about this month 's case history . |
| 11 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 12 | But the BBC was confused last night over Birt 's comments to a Sunday Times journalist in America , in which he appeared to say that Eldorado would not survive under his tenure as director general . |
| 13 | The move which the program chooses is the one which leads to a position HisPos with maximum backed up value . |
| 14 | An old age pensioners ' club in Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , is objecting to a £6.03 rates demand . |
| 15 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 16 | Where one party to a contract contracts to use certain goods for the purposes of the contract , considerations of title and quiet possession may be irrelevant , but conformity to description , sample , quality and fitness for purpose may well not be . |
| 17 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 18 | ( d ) Action on receipt of replies Replies to a land charges search give the number of any land charge ( eg C iv ) , which may relate to your land . |
| 19 | This survey had audited the investigations and diagnoses in patients with iron deficiency anaemia referred to a gastroenterology outpatients by family practitioners . |
| 20 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 21 | Firstly , Mr Holdsworth refused to certify to a builder monies that had been valued by the in-house quantity surveyors , for the simple reason that he knew the work to which it related had not been executed . |
| 22 | Mr Reenan and his wife Phyllis connected it to a £1,000 airwaves scanner which they use to earwig calls made on mobile phones . |
| 23 | Similarly , if a cancer is found at a screening colonoscopy in a patient presenting to a unit years after the programme entry date for example , colitis of 17 years duration or when referred from another centre it can not be counted a success becaue these cancers represent a selected group detected outside the regular surveillance protocol . |
| 24 | Subsequently anterior and posterior abdominal scans were obtained at 40 , 120 , and 240 minutes using a large field of view gamma camera fitted with a low energy high resolution collimator and interfaced to a Research Machines Nimbus microcomputer . |
| 25 | According to a World Resources Institute survey presented on June 7 , 1990 , between 160,000 and 200,000 sq km of tropical rainforest were being destroyed annually . |
| 26 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 27 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
| 28 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 29 | Q. — A fire-engine driven at full speed to a fire knocks down and kills somebody . |
| 30 | She spoke to a woman police officer outside the Old Bailey after the court had adjourned on Tuesday evening . |