Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 2 | The move to comprehensive schools in the sixties and seventies led to a broadening of the ability range facing language teachers in British schools . |
| 3 | For the moment he therefore confined himself to a tour of the streets , even though popular clamour made it clear what was wanted , for few cried ‘ Vive la République ’ . |
| 4 | A wide range of optional excursions is offered , from trips to the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza to a tour of the museum which houses Tutankhamun 's treasures . |
| 5 | Before settling down to a tour of the old quarter ( and Stein is almost entirely an old quarter ) , it is a good idea to face the climb to the Burg Hohenklingen , from the battlements of which there is a breathtaking view of the Rhine winding its way through flat green pastures and dense woodland , and of the closely clustered pointed roofs of Stein itself . |
| 6 | Chairman Lord Younger has announced that , in addition to a tour of the building , Her Majesty has accepted an invitation to join him for lunch . |
| 7 | Star of the show is the Vulcan and viewers are treated to a tour around the cockpit with S/L Paul Millikin . |
| 8 | If a closed-loop stepping motor system is to position a load in the shortest possible time it must accelerate rapidly to a high speed , but the choice of switching angle is subject to a conflict between the demands of fast acceleration and high speed operation . |
| 9 | This adds up to a threat to the source of Japan 's post-war strength . |
| 10 | On 28 December , partisans made repeated attacks on German transport on the Via Emilia , their main line of communication with the battle front , which led to a threat by the Germans that they would burn the villages along the length of the road . |
| 11 | The abolition plan led to a threat by the country 's five island provinces to secede from Papua New Guinea . |
| 12 | Innocently I pointed to a sign above the bar and asked Robins , ‘ What 's a thong ? ’ |
| 13 | He said Mr Hargreaves 's bicycle had been found chained to a sign at the start of a trail , which winds its way through thick forest to the vast Mendenall glacier , just north of Juneau in south east Alaska . |
| 14 | Eventually I was drawn to a sign in the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society advertising 11.3 per cent . ’ |
| 15 | For examination of witnesses abroad , s 56 of the 1984 Act applies , and application is by originating summons to a master of the High Court ( RSC Ord 39 , rr 1 , 2 ) . |
| 16 | How would old Carlo react to a kick on the ankle , her teeth in his wrist . |
| 17 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 18 | The Sejm had voted on Oct. 16 to reject most of the changes to the small constitution proposed by the Senate ( upper house ) , but in doing so had altered its rules of procedure , leading to a call for the Constitutional Tribunal to rule on the legality of the changed procedure . |
| 19 | Workers on July 2 responded to a call by the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) for a nationwide one-day strike at the start of a week of protest action highlighting the continuing carnage in Natal . |
| 20 | On April 26 an estimated 50,000,000 workers in the Russian Federation responded to a call by the Federation of Independent Russian Trade Unions by joining a one-hour warning strike or holding meetings at their workplaces in protest against falling living standards . |
| 21 | On Aug. 26 , responding to a call by the Solidarity trade union , an estimated 5,000 of Ursus 's 7,600 employees marched through the capital to demonstrate outside the Cabinet offices , demanding salary increases and a rescue plan for the company . |
| 22 | On Aug. 26 , responding to a call by the Solidarity trade union , an estimated 5,000 of Ursus 's 7,600 employees marched through the capital to demonstrate outside the Cabinet offices , demanding salary increases and a rescue plan for the company . |
| 23 | On Dec. 6 around 100,000 Hindu kar sevaks ( construction volunteers ) responded to a call by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and militant Hindu organizations , including the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh ( RSS ) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) , to resume construction work on a temple at Ayodhya . |
| 24 | While the siege of Calais was in progress , in answer to a call from the French , the Scots attacked the north of England . |
| 25 | On July 16 the UN Security Council , responding to a call from the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) [ see p. 38992 ] , asked UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in Resolution 765 to send a special representative to South Africa . |
| 26 | But one thing leads , well , to a bit of the other . |
| 27 | Contempt for the public sector has led to a deterioration of the infrastructure , and a visible collapse of key public services . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |