Example sentences of "letter to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to the Irish premier in 1947 , while an extensive health bill was going through parliament , the bishops ‘ pointed out that to claim such powers for the public authority , without qualification , is entirely and directly contrary to Catholic teaching on the rights of the family , the Church in education , the rights of the medical profession and voluntary institutions ’ ( Irish Independent , 12 Apr. 1951 , quoted Whyte 1980 : 143 ) . |
| 2 | A priest from County Galway , in a letter to the Irish Times , informed that Dr Enda McDonagh , a noted Roman catholic moral theologian , had told priests of the Tuam archdiocese in January that it was possible to make a distinction between the church 's teaching on the ideal of marriage and divorce as a civil right . |
| 3 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 4 | Even a letter to the Police Review can be regarded as a form of indiscipline : |
| 5 | I spotted a critical piece about my department in the Economist and drafted a letter to the editor for Mellowes to send but he did n't use it . |
| 6 | An open letter to the climbers who recently placed a bolt on Raven Crag , Langdale . |
| 7 | Then , in a letter to the company 's London headquarters , he said that unless he was paid , items would be injected by a qualified chemist , causing ‘ pain , suffering and possibly death ’ to customers . |
| 8 | The board outlined its views in a letter to the Secretary of State for Education and Science . |
| 9 | At the start of the Pilkington Glass Semi-finals , Mrs Thatcher did send a welcoming letter to the grandmasters : ‘ I wish all the players every success but I must send my particular good wishes to Jon Speelman . ’ |
| 10 | The most high-level discontent appeared in an extraordinary open letter to the same paper , the organ of the Free German Youth ( SDJ ) . |
| 11 | When he wrote a letter to the college newspaper criticising the compulsory chapels and boring sermons , he was expelled . |
| 12 | A total of 364 economists , almost one for each day of the year , dispatched a formal letter to The Times denouncing the government 's economic approach as ruinous — though they were soon matched by a similarly large number of economists who were prepared to endorse it . |
| 13 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 14 | Before this dinner took place , Seely sent a copy of his letter to the King . |
| 15 | One evening , as an excuse to get out of the house , she went with a letter to the post office . |
| 16 | This concern was linked with Marx 's anthropological work , as made clear in a famous letter to the Russian socialist Vera Zasulich . |
| 17 | In a letter to the London Evening News of the late 1920s , Hitchcock expresses his own sense of how Hollywood models could be redeployed in a British context : |
| 18 | A letter to The Times of 1923 , for example , drew attention to ‘ the dangers arising from the Americanization of the British Empire from the excessive number of American motion pictures shown ’ , but things came to a head in 1924 . |
| 19 | In further pressure on East German leaders , academics at the influential Potsdam Academy sent an open letter to the central committee . |
| 20 | HERE 'S a rather touching letter to the troops from Captain Robert Maxwell , headed simply : Our Home . |
| 21 | On March 14 , Dai Qing and two friends wrote an open letter to the National People 's Congress , which was signed by 40 intellectuals and supported earlier appeals for the release of Wei Jingsheng and other political prisoners . |
| 22 | The letter to the DTI was sent on July 2 , 1987 . |
| 23 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ In his letter to the Licensing Unit principal , the Stock Exchange representative said that he was sceptical of the ‘ bad guys becoming clean ’ touch and was concerned about the future of the UK portfolio clients and the extent of resources within the portfolios . ’ |
| 24 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 25 | In a letter to the Australian Stock Exchange , the company said it would ‘ vigorously oppose the appointment that has been made and will do everything in its power to have the receivership rescinded . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Wrote a snotty letter to the poor chap at Kenwards — I rang him up first , of course , he was embarrassed all over again — asking him to ask his client to leave mine alone . |
| 27 | In an open letter to the government , 72 senior expatriate scientists representing Britain 's ‘ brain drain ’ gave warning of severe economic and social consequences unless scientific research was given a higher priority . |
| 28 | Mr Smick , no slouch , suggested that he write an article for the International Economy , a magazine that Johnson Smick publish , in the form of a letter to the G7 . |
| 29 | Within three days he and Mr Primakov had written the letter to the G7 : that is , the article for Mr Smick 's magazine . |
| 30 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |