Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 2 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 3 | This is envisaged by SGA 1979 , s 12(3) , although even here SGA 1979 , s 12 ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) imply a warranty that the seller has disclosed known encumbrances , and warranties promising no disturbance of quiet possession by the seller or the person on whose behalf he is selling , or by third parties claiming through them ( except by reason of an encumbrance disclosed to the buyer ) . |
| 4 | So is an appendix devoted to the umpires , from which it emerges that of the list of 31 only six have not been first-class cricketers : a healthy ratio surely . |
| 5 | to which I referred was an overestimate compared to the figure that I suggested , which was based on the same information . |
| 6 | Hoping to lay to rest the hare started by an interview given to the Wall Street Journal by a top Siemens AG staffer , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig said at the opening of the Cebit Hannover Fair yesterday that his company had no plans for a strategic link with another computer company . |
| 7 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 8 | An issue related to the independence of the universities and their fears about central control is the whole question of academic freedom and the importance attached to tenure . |
| 9 | An accountant responded to the appeal , published in the Standard on Tuesday , for information about the man who lunched with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 10 | The government is to inject a record £130 million into renewable energy projects , including wind farms and recycling schemes , according to an announcement made to the House of Commons by junior energy minister , Colin Moynihan . |
| 11 | Examinations — A student who fails an examination related to the diploma area of study may , at the discretion of the centre and in agreement with HCIMA , be allowed to retake examinations as many times as he/she wishes ( providing the centre is prepared to set and mark new papers ) and that the programme is still current . |
| 12 | However , the overlap between designs and copyright has been eroded by section 51 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which states that it is not an infringement of any copyright in a design document or model recording or embodying a design for anything other than an artistic work ( or a typeface ) , to make an article to the design or to copy an article made to the design . |
| 13 | But the biggest incentive , concludes Mr Lee , is Singapore 's 30-year track record of stable politics and social environment , a growing economy and an infrastructure tailored to the needs of international business . |
| 14 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 15 | This award is only available from the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board ( LCCI ) , an internationally recognised awarding body , in conjunction with Freight Train , an organisation dedicated to the training requirements of those working in the freight industry . |
| 16 | In Kings North Trust Ltd. v. Bell [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 119 a husband and wife agreed to charge their jointly owned matrimonial home to secure an advance made to the husband for the purposes of his business . |
| 17 | There would be an advance paid to the writer on signing the deal . |
| 18 | Recordings were stored on digital audio tape and visually analysed by an observer blinded to the side or clinical diagnosis ( the recording was interspersed with recordings from control patients ) . |
| 19 | In the library she saw an exhibition dedicated to the war poets and plans for the library extension ; she met students and researchers using some of the library 's on-line and interactive computer systems . |
| 20 | As usual the event will be accompanied by a number of cultural activities including four seminars on collecting and an exhibition dedicated to the restoration of the area of Milan known as the Capitoline of S. Ambrogio . |
| 21 | Journalists published last week a copy of an affidavit made to the police saying that Mrs Mandela had put a 20,000 rand ( £4,000 ) ‘ contract ’ on the life of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , shot dead in his surgery on January 27 , 1989 . |
| 22 | The rapid decline in the world 's frog population is due at least in part to pesticides , according to Adelaide Univeristy 's frog expert Michael Tyler , in an address given to the Austrialia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science ( ANZAAS ) . |
| 23 | A 14-year-old boy is to appear in court today charged with an offence connected to the fire in a department store in which two elderly people died . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to the board in that behalf , transfer to a new tenant or occupant of any licensed premises the licence then subsisting in respect of those premises . |
| 25 | If liability is not in dispute , the action can simply be stood out by agreement or an application made to the judge of the lists , or to the judge on circuit , for a standing-out order , or possibly an application made to claim provisional damages ; but if liability is still in dispute the action must be tried and ought to be heard as soon as possible , irrespective of the uncertainties on quantum . |
| 26 | The WinSock API ( for Windows Sockets ) allows an application written to the interface to run unchanged over TCP/IP implementations from multiple vendors under Windows and Windows NT . |
| 27 | The group claims that an application written to the interfaces will be able to run unchanged over many vendors ' SNA communications products under the Microsoft operating systems . |
| 28 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 29 | The name of the routine in the defining module interface has an underscore prefixed to the name used in the calling module . |
| 30 | It was planned that from April 1993 the colleges would receive a basic annual budget plus an amount related to the number of pupils enroled . |