Example sentences of "of a [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore have to know : what sort of presence could there be of a God to whom there applied none of the limitations that applied to finite human existence ? |
| 2 | I was a port in the storm of a marriage to which , fundamentally , he was totally committed . |
| 3 | Some States may have interests arising out of a treaty to which they are parties , and which is to be interpreted or applied by the Court . |
| 4 | A State is bound by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party if : ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should be the means of creating a legal obligation binding upon that particular State or class of States to which it belongs ; and ( b ) that State has expressly or impliedly consented to the provision . |
| 5 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 6 | Obligations and rights arise for States members of an international organisation from the provisions of a treaty to which that organisation is a party when the parties to the treaty intend those provisions to be the means of establishing such obligations and according such rights and have defined their conditions and effects in the treaty or have otherwise agreed thereon , and if : |
| 7 | She laid down her rake and ran in to administer a good belt of a stick to whoever might be making little of her darling . |
| 8 | The great aristocratic houses were real absentees at court and a visit of a grandee to his estates ranked as a great event in local history . |
| 9 | Moreover the recording itself stands as something of a tribute to his long relationship with another French institution , the Opéra de Lyon , which he has conducted frequently since his début there in the same opera in 1981 . |
| 10 | A tax effective method of achieving this may be by means of a payment to your pension scheme . |
| 11 | The wires on telephones are of a type to which it is difficult to make connections but there should be no difficulty if the pieces of screw terminal block are used as shown . |
| 12 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 13 | It 's getting a bit of a nuisance to him stuck there for twenty seven years . |
| 14 | But their sacrifice has finally been recognised with the dedication of a memorial to their deaths . |
| 15 | But once we progress beyond the formation of a contract to its enforcement , a difficulty in reconciling liberalism with the law of contracts emerges . |
| 16 | A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party . |
| 17 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 18 | ‘ In general , I think it 's slightly unfair when you 've got someone who 's considered a virtuoso player such as Mark King — he 's obviously very talented , but his basses are so incredibly easy to play that it seems a bit of a cheat to me . |
| 19 | It is changing its name to Sakura Finance International — this means cherry blossom , but whether it will add much of a shine to its image remains to be seen . |
| 20 | Got a bit of a kick to it ! |
| 21 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 22 | And she discovered a telephone ear-piece extension which allows her to listen and repeat the words of a caller to him . |
| 23 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 24 | In psychoanalytic theory the attachment of a boy to his mother which leads to emulation of the father also leads to rivalry . |
| 25 | ‘ It might not seem much of a dream to anyone else , ’ she says , ‘ but to us this one simple thing really does mean everything . ’ |
| 26 | The usual lairs of sniping pike , marginal rushes and other bankside vegetation , are too much of a threat to their comfort . |
| 27 | This derived largely from fears amongst Latin American ruling groups of a threat to their own positions , concerns which have been played upon and reinforced by Great Britain in the 1920s because of its considerable stake in the Argentine economy , and subsequently by the United States . |
| 28 | It seemed to me that if the Fraxillians were docile enough to put up with their misery , and stupid enough to believe in their rulers divinity , they were n't likely to offer much of a threat to him or to my delivery . |
| 29 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 30 | So he obviously would n't have thought the union would have been much of a threat to him seeing as he |