Example sentences of "[noun] to an [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four members of the FMLN high command ( Jovel , Villalobos , Shafick Jorge Handal and Eduardo Sancho ) had returned from exile to an emotional welcome at San Salvador airport on Jan. 31 , accompanied by leading members of Latin American political parties including the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) of Mexico . |
| 2 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 3 | Lombroso is best known for his theory , derived from Charles Darwin , that criminals were atavistic throwbacks to an earlier stage of evolution . |
| 4 | He said that gross negligence signified " indifference to an obvious risk to health and welfare and an appreciation of such risk coupled with a determination to run it " . |
| 5 | Innocent 's reply to an enquiring letter from Bishop Eustace of Ely , who was requesting clarification and help on a number of problems in order to act as a papal judge delegate , did exactly this . |
| 6 | In reply to an open-ended question concerning ways in which improvements could be made to help their environmental scanning , most planners discussed the online services . |
| 7 | On Oct. 8 the United Kingdom had entered the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system of the European Communities ( EC ) , but at the subsequent European Council meeting in Rome Thatcher had been isolated in her opposition to an early move towards the second stage of economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and in the strength of her determination to hold out against the possible ultimate introduction of a single European currency [ see pp. 37782-73 ] . |
| 8 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 9 | However , attention is instead directed in this chapter to an ideological examination of the question of whether all this matters , and if so , how and to whom . |
| 10 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 11 | A friend of mine went on a march to an American air-station in Essex . |
| 12 | " Placed between India and Rome " , the Greeks in their greatest period achieved a third mode of existence thanks to an extraordinary combination of political and Dionysiac instincts ; and the remedial power that prevented either instinct from overwhelming the other , the power that stimulated , purified and relieved the people at this time , was tragedy . |
| 13 | BRECHIN stretched their lead at the top of the Second Division with 1-0 win over their nearest rivals , Clyde , thanks to an amazing blunder by the home goalkeeper , Scott Howie , in the 67th minute . |
| 14 | In 1988 , thanks to an ever-larger pool of therapy clients-turned-volunteers and an ever-larger pool of contributions , the NAP managed to qualify for matching funds and place its new presidential candidate , Leonora Fulani , on the ballot in all 50 states . |
| 15 | Glasgow seemed better equipped to handle the additional 20 minutes and snatched victory thanks to an own goal by Donald McIntyre ( Forfar ) and Stephen Ross 's late third . |
| 16 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
| 17 | The division 's profits edged up from £10.6m to £11.3m thanks to an excellent performance from the Hammerite protective coatings business in Britain . |
| 18 | Keith Sheridan took four for 34 , a fine performance by the Poloc spinner , and he had the honour of taking top scorer Kenny Jackson 's wicket , thanks to an excellent catch by David Cowan , only two balls after the Freuchie bowler had dislocated a finger which he put back in himself . |
| 19 | But the eight-times champion was soon back in front thanks to an accomplished effort on Grand Hawk in the St Austell Brewery Company Novices Hurdle . |
| 20 | For potential solicitors the apprenticeship to an experienced solicitor in the form of articles of clerkship performs the same function . |
| 21 | It is alleged Casabona , 20 , ambushed the youngster and took her by car to an isolated spot near Woodbridge . |
| 22 | Hence , the addition of glucose to an aqueous solution of sodium , chloride , bicarbonate and potassium ions allows absorption of sodium ions and glucose , and a consequent osmotic uptake of water which pulls along the other ions by ‘ solvent drag ’ . |
| 23 | They dived from 49p to an all-time low of 40p as investors voted with their feet . |
| 24 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 25 | Kidder and Mendelsohn , on the other hand , attribute litigiousness and perjury to an exceptional amount of hostility and conflict in South Asian society , but they fail to explain why this aggression was channelled into formal litigation . |
| 26 | CRASH survivor Mark Hayden could hold the key to an horrific accident in which two of his Army colleages died , police believe . |
| 27 | However , the real key to an encouraging performance at the lineout by the home team was surely that , given the choice , England would much have preferred to play under the old lineout laws , Wales under the new . |
| 28 | The data are reduced using standard procedures to produce Bouguer gravity anomalies to an overall accuracy of 1 m Gal . |
| 29 | The Act of 1986 built on the foundations of the typical debenture by providing in Part III for administrative receivers and in Part II machinery for the making of administration orders intended to be used as a statutory alternative to an administrative receiver by filling |
| 30 | The pupil can : 4a choose an appropriate instrument ; 4b make a measurement within the usual range of the instrument to an appropriate level of accuracy ; 4c make a measurement outside the usual range of the instrument to an appropriate level of accuracy . |