Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conditions usually result in a flag being set , or an interrupt to a recovery routine being taken . |
| 2 | If the Certificate of Search discloses that a resolution has been made adopting the provisions of the Clean Air Act , that 's an advantage to a buyer as a measure of protection against pollution . |
| 3 | It is not an advantage to a woman , and fatal to society , if women are allowed to take too important a role . |
| 4 | I think it an advantage to a student to have something to react against , but this has not led me to struggle to reach firm conclusions on every topic . |
| 5 | Plans for a bungalow and the conversion of an outbuilding to a farm garage on land to the north of Pond House Farm , Hamsterley , have been approved . |
| 6 | He has also called for an election to a constituent assembly to be held within two months , to restore ‘ institutional democracy … as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | The demand was tabled by breakaway Liverpool Labour Councillors group leader Tony Jennings as an addition to a condemnation of government plans for pit closures proposed by Liberal Democrat group leader Mike Storey . |
| 8 | In my judgment there is no question but that there has been a source of income in the deposit of money , and at any rate there has been an addition to a source of income here . |
| 9 | War or MOD Disablement Pension or War Widow 's Pension ( except for Constant Attendance Allowance and Mobility Supplement paid as an addition to a War Disablement Pension ) |
| 10 | Switches : A switch is an addition to a program name which modifies the behaviour of that program . |
| 11 | It is suggested that this is an addition to a breach of CA 1985 , s263 which provides that the vendor can only make a distribution out of profits available for the purpose . |
| 12 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 13 | But a boy could not become an apprentice to a bricklayer , or a tradesman . |
| 14 | For an exposure to a source found to be positive for HBsAg , the employee who has not previously been vaccinated should receive the hepatitis B vaccine series . |
| 15 | Presumably it is an overreaction to a number of points that we have noted : that no logical guarantee of the soundness of our abductive sense can be provided ; that our substantive conception of reality or of the aim of inquiry may itself be revisable ; that while experience might lead us to abandon a theory with some confidence , proper acceptance should be postponed to the long run — true theories are survivors . |
| 16 | Although the American Anthropological Association 's statement on ethics is of some relevance to sociolinguists and is easily accessible as an appendix to a book which deals specifically with ethical problems in fieldwork ( Rynkiewich and Spradley 1971 ) , linguists do not in general have recourse to a widely accepted ethical code . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs alleged the first , sixth and seventh defendants in preparing their business plan had used five specific items of information derived from financial projections contained in an appendix to a business plan ( " the blue book " ) of the plaintiffs namely : ( a ) the average operating profit per Bureau de Change ; ( b ) the average profit of the first year of operation as a percentage of a full years profit ; ( c ) the average costs per Bureau ; ( d ) the average number and/or transactions per Bureau ; ( e ) the average value of each transaction . |
| 18 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 19 | For example , in assigning an index to a word like ’ making ’ or ’ baking ’ , it may be possible to work backwards to arrive at the root ( ’ make ’ or ’ bake ’ ) by removing the ’ ing ’ ending and adding the letter ’ e ’ . |
| 20 | An award to a man who 's taken the future of the world into his own hands . |
| 21 | 3.17 In Bayley v Bloomsbury Health Authority ( Kemp & Kemp , Vol 2 , para E3-012 , Henry J said , in making an award to a student nurse who had suffered a prolapsed lumbar disc at the age of 20 , that there was a world of difference between such an injury happening to a victim at that age as opposed to the age of 33 , the age of a plaintiff who had suffered a comparable injury in a case to which he had been referred . |
| 22 | An attribution to a mint at Hamwic , the medieval precursor of Southampton , therefore seems plausible . |
| 23 | We will give every citizen an entitlement to a period of retraining or education at a time of their choice during their adult lives , based on distance learning costs . |
| 24 | Mama worked as an aide to a senator … ’ |
| 25 | The court may deny an action to a plaintiff who suffered damage while participating in a criminal activity . |
| 26 | If a particular financial advisor uses the system to recommend an investment to a client , the advisor will not be negligent if the system was used in a reasonable and satisfactory manner , even if the advice turns out retrospectively to be bad . |
| 27 | You may also be able to get legal insurance as an add-on to a household policy for as little as £12.50 per year , but it may not always cover you for a battle with the boss , so check before you buy |
| 28 | This was a difficult doctrine to establish , particularly since it was pointed out that my own activities were not remunerated in any such way ; but nevertheless I found an impossible inconsistency in remaining an adviser to a profession that outraged this important principle . |
| 29 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |