Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common law provided a form of self-help remedy to a person harmed by straying livestock by way of distress damage feasant . |
| 2 | Very simply by giving the remedy to a group of healthy people in a carefully controlled and closely monitored fashion . |
| 3 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 4 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 5 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 6 | The inquiry follows objections by Teesdale District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way sub-committee to allow the plan . |
| 7 | The inquiry was prompted by objections from Teesside District Council and the Ramblers Association to a decision by Durham County Council 's special rights of way subcommittee to allow the diversion . |
| 8 | The ICE Conditions of Contract entitle the contractor to an extension of time if any of a number of specified events delays the works . |
| 9 | However , events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs . |
| 10 | This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration . |
| 11 | One dealer at a London based sharedealing outfit was selling an unknown oil and gas stock to a client who replied : " I work in the oil industry myself , and these speculative situations , I know can go badly wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 13 | A draw was a fair result to a hard-fought , sporting contest . |
| 14 | Consequently , you must assign the result to a variable . |
| 15 | The process is one of envisioning on paper and then transferring the result to an Apple Macintosh computer system . |
| 16 | The reader may think that the result is already known , but all too often different populations behave in different ways so that although there may be an expected result to an investigation it will not be a foregone conclusion . |
| 17 | The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived . |
| 18 | A farewell card to a secretary seemed innocent enough . |
| 19 | Fitting a sound card to a PC is not a difficult task — we 've covered the installation of expansion cards enough for anyone to be able to do it , and the Laserwave Plus is no exception . |
| 20 | He crushed the card to a ball in one hand . |
| 21 | It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network . |
| 22 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 23 | Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person 's weight . |
| 24 | Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery . |
| 25 | Since she was capable of loving so deeply , she can still , if she chooses , remain in the business of giving and receiving love for as long as she lives , for although she may feel that she is no longer everything to anyone , she can still mean a great deal to a number of people . |
| 26 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 27 | If there was a " consumer revolution " in eighteenth-century England , it must have owed a very great deal to an improvement in road transport which , according to one writer , allowed " our very carriages to travel with almost winged expedition " . |
| 28 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 29 | He swerved the jeep to a halt in the village square , under a plane tree to keep it as cool as possible in the midday heat . |
| 30 | Adam had slammed the Jeep to a stop before the helicopter was on its back . |