Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lotus Development Corp and the Skytel unit of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc plan joint development of technologies and applications to meet the demands of a growing wireless messaging market : first product from the agreement is a wireless messaging gateway for Lotus Notes , which is claimed to be the first US national wireless gateway for workgroup software — combining Notes and a SkyWord alphanumeric receiver , the gateway will create a Notes ‘ thinking mailbox ’ that can forward changes in information from a Notes server to SkyWord receivers , the firms say . |
| 2 | The potential for a KBS approach to complex avionic component fault diagnostics via the use of limited but similar reasoning approaches to those adopted by experienced service engineers has great potential in the provision of intelligent support to equipment diagnostics . |
| 3 | Not that it makes a whits difference to how the team plays or what team Wilko puts out on Saturday . |
| 4 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 6 | Emma was Captain of the School 's under 12 soccer team … and today her friends started a collection to buy a sports trophy to be presented in her memory . |
| 7 | There was a saloon going to Chicago but there was a sports car to Los Angeles . |
| 8 | plus a years access to the . |
| 9 | States which did not consider a customs union to be necessary could conclude agreements with the customs union on a free-trade zone . |
| 10 | The offer was of six new Eagle shares for each Samuelson share or a cash alternative and a rights issue to Eagle shareholders . |
| 11 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 12 | It took only a few seconds to order six droids and a goods transporter to the 65th level cargo bay . |
| 13 | MUGGERS held a 12-ins knife to a baby 's face and forced her mum to hand over her handbag . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 15 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 16 | You 'd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it would n't you ? |
| 17 | Ken Shumate ( ASDC , USA ) gave a half-day tutorial on how to convert the functions described in a requirements specification to the objects of an object-oriented design ( including mention of data-flow diagrams and object-oriented design ) . |
| 18 | The road blocks were a police response to criminal action , a counter to terrorist attacks in this area , he said . |
| 19 | But it includes much more … from personal hygiene to library studies … from a Police course to knowing what it 's like being deaf . |
| 20 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 21 | Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street . |
| 22 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 23 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 24 | In Simcock v Rhodes ( 1978 ) 66 Cr App R 192 the court held that an offence was committed where a group of 15 youths told a police sergeant to ‘ fuck off ’ . |
| 25 | London-based Chernikeeff Networks Ltd is now offering Japan Computer Corp 's range of MIPS R3000 RISC-based colour X-terminals in the UK as the SuperXR series : prices go from £4,500 for a 17″ model to £6,000 for the 20″ version . |
| 26 | Your introduction of a letters page to the match programme should be congratulated . |
| 27 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 28 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 29 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |