Example sentences of "an [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 2 | Retrovirus integration and replication require activation and division of T cells , so the ability to stimulate T-cell division by a superantigen effect would be an advantage to T-cell-tropic retroviruses . |
| 3 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 4 | SIR , — As an addition to Professor Feder 's thoughtful article on Paracelsus ( May 29 , p 1396 ) , I would like to draw attention to one most important finding of this giant predecessor of medicine . |
| 5 | An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite . |
| 6 | He returned to Weeford in 1768 , and in 1769 was first employed as an architect , on an addition to Blithfield Hall , Staffordshire . |
| 7 | It does n't seem that long ago that this column reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and hey presto he 's done it again . |
| 8 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 9 | He 's such an opposite to Jamie , I thought they were like almost alike but they 're not . |
| 10 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 11 | Although the Vineyard had little effect on the planting of vines in England , it was popular enough to be reprinted four times as an appendix to Evelyn 's translation of Nicolas de Bonnefons ' The French Gardiner in successive editions from 1669 to 1691 . |
| 12 | It was published as an Appendix to Hardy , which was itself the result of an inquiry by the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) into the music industry . |
| 13 | The degree of hostility to these treaty revision proposals stemmed in large part from feelings that any continuing unsolicited Western involvement in the legal system was an insult to Japan , and that Westernization had in any case gone too far . |
| 14 | An insult to Maggie.Anger as Clinton gets the degree Mrs Thatcher was denied . |
| 15 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 16 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 17 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 18 | From Santiago we flew for an hour to Vigo , which has a smaller airport but is a much larger town and is in fact Spain 's largest port . |
| 19 | Each minute seemed an hour to Dorian , but at last the door opened . |
| 20 | The place is on the A6 linking Nimes to Barcelona , fifteen minutes from Nimes or Montpellier , an hour to Marseilles , twenty minutes to the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | This report is an update to BNB Research Fund Report 46 , The Emergence of the Electronic Book . |
| 22 | Yet he is now more American than Australian , living in Hobe Sound , Florida , with an attachment to Grand Cypress in Orlando . |
| 23 | Irish professional Martin Sludds , who lives in Southport and has an attachment to Formby Driving Range , has also qualified for the tour school along with Chorley 's Liverpool-born professional Paul Wesselingh . |
| 24 | THE National Association of Public Service Advertisers has given an award to Edinburgh 's Zero Tolerance Campaign . |
| 25 | Hence , the likelihood of an attribution to Smart is reduced . |
| 26 | SSP will replace the employee 's entitlement to State sickness benefit , which will not be payable as long as there is an entitlement to SSP . |
| 27 | She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital . |
| 28 | But the controller there took down the details incorrectly and sent an ambulance to Falkirk . |
| 29 | Salah Khalaf , known by his nom de guerre of Abu Iyad , was considered to be PLO chairman Yassir Arafat 's closest and most influential aide , while Hayil Abd al-Hamid ( Abu al-Hol ) was the PLO 's chief of security ; the third man who died was Fakhri al-Umari ( Abu Muhammad ) , an aide to Abu Iyad . |
| 30 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |