Example sentences of "to a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |
| 2 | Tonight : Germany will be reunified , we talk to a former Ambassador . |
| 3 | Perhaps this happens to us ail as we age : our past lives detach themselves and stand to one side hesitantly , hardly believing the corporeal links to a former self . |
| 4 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 5 | Burgess Hill , in Sussex Division One , are to pay tribute to a former RAF prop , Rob Hansford , who has had a playing career lasting 62 years . |
| 6 | A volunteer normally offers to spend two or three hours per week as a companion to a former patient and may go out with the person or help him with specific tasks . |
| 7 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 8 | I fell through the door with Marius and immediately started talking to a former member of the British Parachute Regiment who had known some friends of mine . |
| 9 | The average weekly number of employees , including directors , during the year was as follows : A pension of £3,000 ( 1990 — £2,500 ) was paid to a former director . |
| 10 | A book which had been issued to a former student , now left the Garden , has been found in the Potting Shed . |
| 11 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 12 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 13 | However in October 1974 this message — addressed to a former inmate — was smuggled out of the infamous prison , Cuatro Alamos , on the inside of a cigarette packet . |
| 14 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 15 | Around 1619 , the fragment had been given , along with other marbles by the Earl of Arundel 's grandson , the Duke of Norfolk , to a former family servant . |
| 16 | In July , DHAC members accompanied three women and their seven children to the corporation housing manager 's office to protest at the allocation of a house to a former Belfast prison officer . |
| 17 | Campaign to help find released offenders decent places to live Audrey Gillan speaks to a former convict and drunk back on the right track now he has his own home . |
| 18 | THE Belfast Telegraph today obtained a copy of a letter from US President Bill Clinton to a former Congressman who arrives in Ireland tomorrow to campaign for a peace envoy to be sent to the province . |
| 19 | The Middlesbrough doctors surgery run by Dr John O'Neill and Partners is to move out of the health centre , in the Cleveland Centre , to a former office block in Linthorpe Road , opposite St Barnabas Church . |
| 20 | He has two grown-up children , Dean and Roberta , by his first marriage to a former model , Tina , which broke up in a blaze of publicity after he left her for Stephanie . |
| 21 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 22 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |
| 23 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 24 | It 's just a place people go to listen to a little music , you know ? |
| 25 | Left me a note ’ — he pointed to the table ‘ saying it was her life and she was entitled to a little happiness . |
| 26 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 27 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 28 | Instead he moved slowly towards a system which allocated by ranking children by school record , then ranking schools rather than subjecting pupils to a once-and-for-all examination , eventually towards non-selective education altogether . |
| 29 | It is recognised however , that a change in teaching methods to a more enquiry mode of teaching has implications for both resources and In-Service training in Catholic Schools . |
| 30 | Chaired by Clive Whitbourn , C&P Process Engineering Group manager , the ECC is ideally placed to highlight the way forward to a more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly C&P ; . |