Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 2 | Perhaps the real purpose is then a response to fears of a Leviathan in local government . |
| 3 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 4 | However , this attitude can also represent a response to feelings of rejection by his wife who now has other things to occupy her , or an unwillingness to play a full part in the parental role . |
| 5 | The decree was in part a response to months of student protest against the court ruling , some of the strongest of which had occurred in November 1989 . |
| 6 | The Supreme Court on Dec. 7 dealt a blow to supporters of the right to an abortion by refusing to review a Mississippi law which required women to obtain counselling and then to wait 24 hours before terminating a pregnancy . |
| 7 | And please help our vital campaigns by sending a donation to Friends of the Earth . |
| 8 | The Garden , under its Director Professor D.S. Ingram , specialises in taxonomic botany , which serves as a backbone to studies of biodiversity , biotechnology , and applied botanical research , as well as to plant physiology , genetics and many other plant-based sciences . |
| 9 | I exorcized the mental terror by talking about it , using the experience as a demonstration to students of the mental attitude one must try to adopt on an excavation . |
| 10 | PRESTO puppeteers are giving a demonstration to children of manipulation and puppet making at Winsford Community Arts Centre at 10am tomorrow . |
| 11 | This filter has proved a boom to keepers of sensitive fish by keeping nitrate levels under control but its operation needs to be constantly monitored . |
| 12 | The profit attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to 524 million which , after dividends of 237 million , resulted in a transfer to reserves of 287 million . |
| 13 | Among the solutions proposed at the conference were increased emphasis on sustainable logging and the production of finished wood products , a halt to exports of raw logs , retraining loggers and employing them on repairing damaged forests and rivers . |
| 14 | He had been a successful stage actor in high school and college , a pioneer in the young radio business , a journeyman screen performer , a television personality , a speechmaker to audiences of all description , author of a syndicated newspaper column . ’ |
| 15 | It is a help to members of the media if they know the responsibility of the contact ( eg organiser , development officer , secretary etc ) . |
| 16 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 17 | Although , as he points out , ‘ it really is n't new at all , just a return to traditions of healing that have been accepted for millenniums ’ . |
| 18 | They noted that " inflation expectations had eased considerably and , with the exception of some countries [ reportedly a reference to threats of industrial action in Germany ] wage and price pressures have been declining markedly . " |
| 19 | The reference to ‘ the Principles ’ is a reference to statements of principle issued by S.I.B . |
| 20 | In a reference to events of the late seventeenth century he asked , " What are the names of the two most foolish kings of Poland ? |
| 21 | Except in relation to advertisements to which the deemed consent procedure applies , a local authority can serve a discontinuance order when it is satisfied that removal is necessary ‘ to remedy a substantial injury to the amenity of the locality or a danger to members of the public ’ . |
| 22 | Love is … a danger to morals of Czech youth |
| 23 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 24 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 25 | Artegall 's subduing of Ireland is a conclusion to acts of masculine orderly restoration which the book as a whole deals with . |
| 26 | On the one hand for environmental reasons , for their environmental reasons I should say , and on the other hand so as not to come as a nuisance to residents of existing communities . |
| 27 | The accession of the new king , William IV , in June 1830 brought some slight relief , mainly because it was widely believed that His Majesty favoured the destruction of machinery and the payment of 2 shillings a day to men of the labouring classes . |
| 28 | He was a devoted family man , and a friend to men of all religious creeds and political persuasions . |
| 29 | I would suggest that the government would be a lot , lot better adding a ticket to amounts of money , which said ‘ You either spend this money on implementing the Food Safety Act , or you do n't get it . ’ |
| 30 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |