Example sentences of "to [noun] and [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was accountable to parliament and to a parliamentary commission which would ensure that constitutional provisions , fundamental human rights and freedoms were observed . |
| 2 | After this highlight we cycled on roads back to base and to a cream tea in Dorchester . |
| 3 | The sisters and their assailants , who went to McDonalds and for a walk through the city together , had also exchanged addresses . |
| 4 | In the wake of such a wave would come the commitment to criterion-referenced , positive statements : to teacher-assessment and to a skills-oriented curriculum , identified earlier as the elements in a new certification consensus ; to the principles of curriculum depth , breadth , balance and differentiation integral to the design of GCSE and also central to much of the thinking about records of achievement . |
| 5 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 6 | As quality feature films were produced so the anxieties and introspection could give way to congratulation and to a new hyperbole . |
| 7 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 8 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 9 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 10 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 11 | He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent , himself . |
| 12 | There are plans for multi-storey car-parks , the first of which is now open , to get cars off the streets and restore the pavements to pedestrians and for a major ring-road round Funchal . |
| 13 | ‘ Bill can put pen to paper and within a matter of seconds do a cartoon , so we thought why not have a cartoon book about Wirral , ’ said Ian who runs the business with Marilyn from their home in Acrefield Road , Prenton . |
| 14 | There are plans to make shares available to staff and to a group of sponsors headed by Die Zeit 's literary editor Fritz Raddatz . |
| 15 | Incubations were performed under basal conditions , in the presence of 4 µM forskolin ( a well known stimulator of adenylate cyclase ) used to check if the homogenates retained the ability to respond to stimuli and with a peptic tryptic cotazym digest of bread ( San Pastore ) wheat gliadin ( 50 µg/ml ) ( supplied by Dr M De Vincenzi , Istituto Superiore di Santià , Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura , Rome ) . |
| 16 | Publications in the 1960s , such as Honest to God and Toward a Quaker View of Sex , represented for her the encroachment or infiltration of a new moral orthodoxy into the Church itself . |
| 17 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |
| 18 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 19 | In flagrant breach of Victorian morality he persuaded his inamorata , Elspeth Thomson , to follow him down to Cornwall and into a whirlwind marriage at St. Fimbarrus 's Church on 22nd July , 1899 . |
| 20 | A joint statement was issued , which noted that both sides had agreed " on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing climate of violence and intimidation from whatever quarter , as well as a commitment to stability and to a peaceful process of negotiations " . |
| 21 | ‘ Preston , ’ said Polly , when she came down from putting the twins to bed and in a tone he had come to recognise over the years . |
| 22 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 23 | They could , however , volunteer for work , which entitled them to wages and to a better diet ( the same as convicted prisoners ) . |
| 24 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 25 | Parsons recognizes that in Western industrial society ‘ There will be certain tendencies to arrogance on the part of some winners and to resentment and to a ‘ sour grapes ’ attitude on the part of some losers ' . |
| 26 | Working the 12 step Programme is not an end in itself but the method by which the sufferer is transformed from negativity to positively , from sickness to health and from a life of belligerence and blaming to a life that focuses upon creativity and an attitude of gratitude . |
| 27 | Various types of part-time work , job sharing and other flexible arrangements are becoming available to women and to a lesser extent , to men . |
| 28 | References to horses and to a flat in town suggested that he was spending his declining years in considerable financial comfort . |
| 29 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I listened too much to Dad and as a result let myself down . ’ |