Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was drawn to a sign in the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society advertising 11.3 per cent . ’ |
| 2 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 3 | This was implied by the Cambridge Economic Policy Group ( CEPG ) , who used an accounting identity ( see Ch. 27 ) to demonstrate that a higher PSBR must lead to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 4 | Here is a case where digitisation , which has so much to offer the historian , could actually lead to a deterioration in the nature of the source material available . |
| 5 | The imprisoned man 's sister was married to a gardener in the Boboli and lived just next door . |
| 6 | These attempts , none too successful , ranged from various business ventures to a stint in the Netherlands ( 1745–7 ) as observer for the British government . |
| 7 | Next they came to a clearing in the forest where they saw a great flock of doves . |
| 8 | By this means , the Government is accompanying its move away from full citizenship on economic and welfare fronts to a curtailment in the political domain . |
| 9 | According to a spokesman in the museum , the leak was caused by a blockage of the drainage system which , despite regular checks , had become clogged up after strong winds the previous week . |
| 10 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 11 | That Svend has offended a man who could have been instrumental in his receiving an engineering scholarship to a university in the States , and all he 's likely to receive as thanks is a chaste kiss ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't it be funny if I was the next Lady Mellor ? ’ she giggled to a friend in the heat of her affair with the Cabinet Casanova . |
| 13 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 14 | At present , they are entitled to a share in the sale proceeds but can not forestall a sale by staying in the house . |
| 15 | It is evident that the only government which can fully satisfy all the exigencies of the social state is one in which the whole people participate ; that any participation , even in the smallest public function , is useful ; that the participation should everywhere be as great as the general degree of improvement of the community will allow ; and that nothing less can be ultimately desirable than the admission of all to a share in the sovereign power of the state . |
| 16 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 17 | What will need to be ascertained in relation to the outgoing partner is : ( 1 ) his profit share for the current year up to the cessation date , less any drawings made during the year ; ( 2 ) his balance on the firm 's capital account ; ( 3 ) his balance on the firm 's current account in respect of undrawn profits from earlier years ; and ( 4 ) his entitlement to a share in the surplus partnership assets , that is to say , in particular , goodwill , work in progress and the excess over book values of other assets . |
| 18 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 19 | Then , when the first big shower starts , rather than stand under the wings in the rain everyone will desert the launch point for a cup of tea , leaving the gliders apparently well parked and weighted with tyres but , in fact , vulnerable to a change in the wind direction . |
| 20 | Increased division of labour , it is stated , leads to a change in the nature of production , from production for use to production for exchange . |
| 21 | There seems little alternative to a change in the economy 's structure towards a new range of products . |
| 22 | ‘ Consent ’ means consent to a change in the normative situation of another — to a change in his rights and duties . |
| 23 | They differ from the theories described in Chapter 3 , therefore , only in that they do not ascribe the poor acquisition to a change in the value of some attention-like process . |
| 24 | This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity . |
| 25 | In a simple case , a salesman 's failure to achieve normal and apparently realistic targets might be due to a change in the size or nature of his territory or other factors which are entirely beyond his personal control . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 27 | The debtor had no personal claim to a change in the law . |
| 28 | When these weapons are taken out on to the streets , it can lead to a change in the spiritual climate , of which more later . |
| 29 | And that 's led to a change in the guitars , as well , because any guitar with a tremolo arm is a guitar with a trapdoor , an escape route you can take any time you 're feeling uncomfortable — and they make you lazy with your finger vibrato as well . |
| 30 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |