Example sentences of "[noun pl] of an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 2 | The separate international personality of an international organisation with treaty-making power sets up another third party relationship that did not arise under the 1969 Convention , that of the member States of an organisation to a treaty concluded between the organisation and a State , or another organisation . |
| 3 | The matching of the activities of an organisation to its resource capability |
| 4 | I cite G.M. Musgrave , sketcher , traveller , memoirist , and vicar of Borden , Kent : author of The Parson , Pen and Pencil , or , Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris , Tours , and Rouen , in the Summer of 1847 ; with a few Memoranda on French Farming ( Richard Bentley , London , 1848 ) and of A Ramble Through Normandy , or , Scenes , Characters and Incidents in a Sketching Excursion Through Calvados ( David Bogue , London , 1855 ) . |
| 5 | As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War . |
| 6 | For example , HARPY uses a finite-state machine which allows many sub-parts of an utterance to be treated as a self-contained recognition problem . |
| 7 | While third party analysis in the context of international organisations gives this distinction some validity , in other areas it is less significant , as it is difficult to assert that a State is completely foreign to the effects of an agreement to which it is not a party . |
| 8 | The Watergate hearings in Congress and the publication of the White House tapes also made possible an exposure of the inner workings of an administration to a degree inconceivable in Britain , where the shroud of secrecy that envelops matters of state is never lifted more than fractionally , even in moments of high crisis . |
| 9 | Expectations of an end to the 30-year civil war in Guatemala were raised by the signing of the " Mexican Accord " in April 1991 [ see p. 38141 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] . |
| 10 | Although this precise reasoning is of doubtful relevance today , it contains the seeds of an argument to the effect that the public interest lies in having a society with fit and healthy citizens . |
| 11 | It is quite clear that in the 17th and 18th centuries and , indeed , up to the enactment of the Judicature Act 1873 the courts , and in particular the Court of King 's Bench , consistently declined to exercise any jurisdiction over any matters in which a right of appeal lay from the benchers of an Inn to the judges sitting as a domestic tribunal . |
| 12 | But observers were sceptical about the prospects of an end to rebel military activity in El Salvador and the call for a larger United Nations role in verifying compliance with the accord and aiding in the disarming of rebel forces . |
| 13 | Namibia has raised the prospects of an end to the culling of seals next year , if tourists come in sufficient numbers to view them . |
| 14 | The two sides have given different interpretations of the accord , but officials on both sides have confirmed the broad terms of an agreement to a transitional government of national unity . |
| 15 | And I just spent three quarters of an hour to an hour with him and he said , Well I 've had a look at this erm , no thanks not for me . |
| 16 | Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from where we are through the tunnel |
| 17 | Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from we are through the tunnel |
| 18 | A professional body may find that the qualifications of an applicant to the profession it regulates are only partially equivalent to those required of their own nationals . |
| 19 | Although a member state may limit the number of members of an EEIG to twenty , it is envisaged that , in the UK , professional partnerships which may have over twenty members will be treated as a single member . |
| 20 | In Verbivore people 's dependence on the endless flow of facts and interpretation has reached the proportions of an addiction to ‘ that best narcotic , vox humana ’ ( 31 ) . |
| 21 | The only formal evidence of continuity comes from this area in the shape of grants of an annuity to Thomas Hoton of Hutton John by both Warwick and Gloucester . |
| 22 | The only formal evidence of continuity comes from this area in the shape of grants of an annuity to Thomas Hoton of Hutton John by both Warwick and Gloucester . |
| 23 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 24 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 25 | There were entrails of an animal to be found in other parts of the circle . |
| 26 | Neither side can afford to be blamed for the collapse of a dialogue which had raised Spanish hopes of an end to ETA violence . |