Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I to be mobbed by all these folk for want of an end to their Mystery ? |
| 2 | This might occur if general practices encouraged a partner with a special interest in diabetes to care for their diabetic patients ; if practices are well equipped as part of a commitment to quality of care ; if the practice has access to dietitian services — most appropriately , perhaps , through the training of practice nurses in dietetics ; and , in such well organised practices , if only those patients with special problems are referred to hospital diabetic clinics . |
| 3 | Some of these are further extended in the detached bungalow analysed by King ( 1984 ) , as part of an opposition to elements of modernity and urbanization which constitute the major transformations of the environment over the last two centuries . |
| 4 | The tape was made collectively , and Siobhan still sees herself as part of an alternative to the mainstream . |
| 5 | I would often masturbate for upwards of quarter of an hour to these fantasies . |
| 6 | White a grade type port of hell of a lot to it . |
| 7 | A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party . |
| 8 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 9 | Where a match is identified , a profile of the opportunity is produced on the ‘ business opportunity ’ stationery and sent under cover of a memo to the appropriate partner or where applicable direct to the contact . |
| 10 | Applications for exclusion of a right to a new tenancy are almost invariably dealt with by the district judge without the parties attending . |
| 11 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 12 | For example , Starbuck ( 1982 ) states that rarely is there a neat sequence of events through from recognition of a problem to definition of the problem , generating possible actions , selection of the appropriate option and implementation . |
| 13 | The French government was also criticised , in particular by the UK but also by Denmark and by the EC Commission , for pursuing its own " freelance diplomacy " in search of a solution to the crisis . |
| 14 | In search of a solution to this seemingly constant change some have advocated an approach which broadly demands the long-term maintenance of the hardware and software environments required to interpret the machine-readable files to be preserved ( Swade 1990 ; Swade 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Surveys will be made of recruitment to four manual occupations ( skilled and semi-skilled ) , using the methodology developed in the earlier study of non-manual occupations : selection of samples of specific job vacancies and interviewing the relevant recruitment decision makers , shortly after the vacancy has been filled , to question them about the whole process of recruitment from identification of a vacancy to selecting and appointing a new employee . |
| 16 | When constructing a funny story remember that one of the elements of humour in the punchline is surprise , going suddenly from the sublime to the ridiculous , from exhilaration to despair , from discovery of a tragedy to self-centred concern about some minor problem . |
| 17 | ‘ And what made you think that poor little Kirsty was so desperately in need of a day-trip to London ? ’ |
| 18 | Running swiftly downhill , Nos. 76012/13 are in charge of a Wath to Fiddlers Ferry MGR train in early May 1981 . |
| 19 | The Irish courts have held that a child which was born deformed in consequence of an injury to its mother , caused by the fault of a railway company on whose line she was travelling , could not recover damages ; but the decision turned on the view that the company , not having means of knowledge of its presence , owed no duty towards it . |
| 20 | According to ns.62A(1) : ‘ No action in respect of a contravention to which section 62 above applies shall lie at the suit of a person other than a private investor , except in such circumstances as may be specified by regulations made by the Secretary of State ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 21 | Apparent first signs of a crack in establishment resolve occurred on Feb. 19 when Djibril Diallo , political secretary of the ruling Mali People 's Democratic Union ( UDPM ) and the number two in the party , spoke in a broadcast interview in favour of a change to multiparty democracy . |
| 22 | If that view were correct , it would appear to pre-empt Woolwich 's arguments in favour of a right to repayment arising at common law , though it is fair to say that this was not the position adopted by counsel for the revenue before your Lordships ' House . |
| 23 | So this is an odd time to let the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade wither , or to be thinking of dismantling the post-1945 multilateral trading system in favour of a slide to managed trade and protection . |
| 24 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 25 | He was paid as such down to 1287 and in 1290 was still in possession of a key to the Jewish treasury , but it is doubtful whether he actually acted as a justice for most of this period , since in February 1283 he was appointed to the full-time position of escheator of England south of Trent . |
| 26 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 27 | If rest and relaxation are purely passive — from flopping in front of a TV to meditation on emptying the mind — we are no longer in control of what enters our minds or unconscious . |
| 28 | But the principal purpose of the Forest system was by this time the raising of revenue : in most cases the wardenships were restored to the offenders or their heirs on payment of a fine to the king . |
| 29 | The district judge may determine a dispute as to payment on application on notice on payment of a fee to the court where satisfaction was made ( see Table of Fees ) . |
| 30 | Similarly the creation of a charge for a fixed amount in favour of the husband , and the repayment of that charge , would not appear to involve any liability for capital gains tax ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 , s251 provides that there is no charge to capital gains tax on repayment of a debt to a creditor ) or inheritance tax . |