Example sentences of "of [noun] to an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inadequate cleaning staff are in a position to do a great deal of damage to an organisation either through actual damage to the fabric or equipment or in terms of food product loss , reputation or image . |
| 2 | In the event of damage to an item which is repairable , the claim would be settled on the basis of the repair cost . |
| 3 | Despite the problems of special classification schemes , they do represent an opportunity to match users ' perspectives and the organization of literature to an extent not often possible in a general classification scheme ; as a result , such schemes will always have a place in the organization of knowledge . |
| 4 | He whistled after her and shouted a coarse word , whilst Beatrice looked down at him , unshaven and dishevelled , and asked who the big Sicilian was ( an insult , of course to an Italian ) . |
| 5 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 6 | Neither , though , does he regret re-signing for the club last summer after intense speculation that had him moving under freedom of contract to an assortment of clubs in England or the continent . |
| 7 | For our family it was the gentlest of introductions to an island full of surprises . |
| 8 | l he ratio of the increase of money to an expansion of the liquidity base is called the ‘ money multiplier ’ . |
| 9 | John Searle has compared the computational view of mind to an Englishman who has no understanding of Chinese processing Chinese symbols according to rules which correspond to the grammar of Chinese : what he deals with may be meaningful Chinese sentences , but he is none the wiser . |
| 10 | To their shame , many tourists fired up by the prospect of making a fast rupee , dirham or peso are prepared to haggle for everything , ranging from the price of a cup of tea to an airline ticket . |
| 11 | A reversion was the grant of the right of succession to an office , made during the lifetime and tenancy of an existing holder . |
| 12 | In the role of opposition to an order promoted by someone else , the functions of the parliamentary agent are as follows . |
| 13 | This method of operating the break-clause may be advantageous to the landlord in that he may delay the service of a section 25 notice until he is in a position to establish a ground of opposition to an application for a new tenancy . |
| 14 | Intellectual property agreements , such as know-how licences , sometimes contain provisions referring questions about the level of royalties to an accountant , unless the issues are technical in which case they are referred to a patent agent . |
| 15 | 8.5 After any reported incident of violence to an employee , some degree of counselling should be provided . |
| 16 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 17 | Curiously , you fail to ascribe Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait to an absence of that same clear leadership in the Middle East . |
| 18 | We also offered as an alternative to refer the question of compensation to an arbiter and to pay whatever he decided . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the internal processes which underlie the way we perceive and think must be of relevance to an understanding of the way sign language works for deaf people . |
| 20 | The ‘ loyal ’ forces air-lifted a company of troops to an air-strip near the military headquarters held by the rebels . |
| 21 | Emitting clicks containing between 20 and 230 pulses per second , and lasting from around one to five seconds , they are capable of distinguishing different sizes of fish to an accuracy of a few millimetres . |
| 22 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 23 | Section 11(1) applies the test of reasonableness to an exemption clause by asking whether it is a " fair and reasonable [ exemption clause ] to be included having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made " . |
| 24 | How important is the birth of Jesus to an understanding of Christianity today ? |
| 25 | General conformity brought the age of hypocrisy to an end . |
| 26 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 27 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 28 | The emphasis here is thus transferred from a straightforward assertion of the ( ontological ) existence of a certain type of things to an assertion to the effect that a given predicate can generate a true proposition . |
| 29 | US-government-funded research has also linked fluoridation of water to an increase in osteosarcoma , a bone cancer . |
| 30 | Light , free manoeuvrability also helps to avoid the telegraphing of techniques to an opponent . |