Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is level , it 's available , the developer may provide a , an amenity area , it says so in the letter anyway , for the town , and a route across the river to . |
| 2 | Ace looked up , tracing a route from the stanchion to a diagonal girder , an almost vertical cable , a narrow pipe and then a short piece of wider ducting . |
| 3 | However , a provision in the contract to the effect the property does not pass until Y Ltd. has paid the price , will not entirely meet X 's needs . |
| 4 | It could be that it is reducible to the other needs ; that our belief in convention is purely a function of the degree to which it satisfies our needs for affection , status , and so on . |
| 5 | The rate of this modification will be a function of the resistance to weathering and erosion of the volcanic materials laid down , the initial relief created by the volcano and the prevailing climatic environment . |
| 6 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 7 | This decree vested all powers in the SLORC , and required that a new constitution be drawn up ( by the SLORC ) and submitted to a referendum before the transfer to a civilian government — a process likely to take at least two years . |
| 8 | ( 11 ) There is a right of appeal from a decision of the Panel to an Appeal Committee in four cases , namely : |
| 9 | The improvement in performance that occurs with training was held to depend not just on the strengthening of the association between the stimulus — word and the response — word but also on a reduction in the extent to which the various words tend to be confused . |
| 10 | The problem this creates for Christianity is that a part of the turning to faith in our generation may be only a reflection of the psychological and sociological undercurrents of our time . |
| 11 | It was a scene of desperation , but Dahrendorf seemed to feel that this kind of community DIY activity could be a part of the answer to the problem of a permanent and growing rate of unemployment . |
| 12 | We must be prepared to face the cost of being a part of the answer to our own prayers . |
| 13 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 14 | The removal of such practices , and any employer who uses such practices today does so at his peril , can be a part of the answer to the economic problems of West Belfast which lie at the root of most other West Belfast problems . |
| 15 | It was pointed out that accounting information is only a part of the input to the decision making process . |
| 16 | The stinging cells of some anemones and corals are quite capable of killing their neighbours allowing one species to completely dominate a part of the reef to the exclusion of other species . |
| 17 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 18 | Responding to such an equation of the spirit with femaleness , Norris points out that Gregory of Nyssa ( one of the Cappadocians ) does indeed speak of Christ as casting out demons by the power of the Spirit , but that there is nothing in his language to imply a subordination of the Spirit to Christ ! |
| 19 | He showed me a speck on the map to the left of Hodges and said that it was named Banks Island , after Cook 's naturalist friend . |
| 20 | However a cheapening of the import to domestic residents occurs now that tariff free imports from the partner country replace tariff laden rest of the world imports . |
| 21 | It was an intellectual assent to the logic of the evidence and a response of the will to the call of Christ . |
| 22 | All these examples suggest that there is something else , over and above a response of the body to our life-style and environment . |
| 23 | There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it . |
| 24 | This is a measure of the degree to which Patrick Jenkin , the Industry Secretary , has changed the stance of this part of the government following his appointment in September 1981 . |
| 25 | To a large extent , the decline was a measure of the degree to which record sales are susceptible to inflation : in times of rising prices , and tightening purses , luxury items like recorded music are among the first things people stop buying . |
| 26 | It is , however , a measure of the extent to which ideas have changed that the most important and influential officers of all , Ministers of the Crown , are permitted , indeed almost required , to have seats in Parliament . |
| 27 | A measure of the extent to which évolués were drawn into French life was the fact that President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was previously a member of five successive French cabinets during the 1950s . |
| 28 | His findings remind us again that text difficulty is not a purely static thing — it is the result of the meeting of a reader and a text , and a measure of the extent to which the linguistic and experiential worlds of the reader and author coincide , or fail to coincide . |
| 29 | ‘ A measure of the extent to which financial resources obtained during a period are sufficient to cover claims incurred during that period against financial resources . |
| 30 | R Sq-rd ; R-squared ( per cent ) , this is a measure of the extent to which the market model as used by the RMS has explained the security 's returns . |