Example sentences of "[noun] to a [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 | SARAH MADDOCK turned in a five star show to help the Liverpool and District Association to a comfortable win in the north west inter-association age group competition at Everton Park . |
| 3 | THE University of Stirling has appointed Dr Brian Murdoch to a personal chair in German . |
| 4 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 5 | Since the partners are , in law , agents for the partnership , they may therefore by their actions bind the partnership to a particular course of conduct . |
| 6 | Of the other two big continental powers , Germany is busy absorbing the former East German army and cutting the new all-German force to a promised limit of 370,000 men , as agreed to in the European conventional arms-control treaty in Paris last November . |
| 7 | The application of a force to a simple liquid of low molar mass is relieved by the flow of molecules past one another into new positions in the system . |
| 8 | Muhammad Ali attributed some of his victories in the boxing ring to a prior course of treatment with B15 . |
| 9 | This line of development underlines the base/superstructure dichotomy and reduces consciousness to a simple reflection of the material base of society . |
| 10 | These trends are bringing world football to a new stage in its internationalisation , which could lead to the corruption of the game . |
| 11 | Each student FTE in each of the categories then entitles the institution to a specific unit of funding . |
| 12 | In recent years the courts have frequently granted an injunction to restrain a defendant to a civil action from disposing of any of his assets , or removing them from the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 13 | Fashion designers Jean and Martin Pallant and Harpers & Queen cordially invite readers to a special preview of their autumn collection at their fabulous shop in the Pantechnicon building , 19a Motcomb Street , London SW1 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Certainly , such peace as prevailed owed an immense amount to Jones 's personal stature in the movement , as one of the old-style union leaders who had , nevertheless , taken an outward-looking and creative role in trying to relate union demands to a wider pattern of economic stability and also , incidentally , the wellbeing of a Labour government . |
| 16 | A lift leads from the terrace to a private jetty with towels , deck-chairs , sun umbrellas and a beach bar . |
| 17 | According to the sealed document sent in return for my cheque , the club has pledged that part of the pitch known as H24/V72 which consists of one square yard and subsoil to a maximum depth of two inches . |
| 18 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 19 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 20 | The ill-fated advertisements were to form a preliminary campaign , costing £100,000 , as a prelude to a major campaign in the coming financial year . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which seemed the prelude to a new era of French expansion , had alarmed the other European powers . |
| 22 | The attack now projected , with the aid of the promised reinforcements , was to be only a prelude to a further offensive on a great scale . |
| 23 | Thus , he tends to argue in a fairly straightforward way from the similarity of behaviour in human beings and animals to a mutual possession of the same ‘ concepts ’ . |
| 24 | In the hills men and women were combing and washing and polishing chosen animals to a Vogue-like perfection of appearance , winners determined to hold their titles , aspirants determined to displace them . |
| 25 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 26 | Lombroso is best known for his theory , derived from Charles Darwin , that criminals were atavistic throwbacks to an earlier stage of evolution . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 29 | I would therefore hold that money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority is prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 30 | In December his reply to a new mission from the king and archbishop contained no mention of homage , and this omission was balanced by unusual violence in the condemnation of lay investiture : |