Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 2 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 3 | But , as at Pittodrie a fortnight ago , the Kilmarnock defence held firm , and even on the rare occasions when Rangers did find a route to goal , veteran goalkeeper Bobby Geddes was on hand to snuff out any danger . |
| 4 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 5 | But at the same time , they 're absolutely clear-eyed about what men can ‘ deliver ’ : namely , a route to children , a bit of sex and some social security . |
| 6 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 7 | This can represent a route to technology evaluation at low risk to the user and there are many examples of useful ventures which have been developed in this way . |
| 8 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 9 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |
| 10 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 11 | Accepting help thus does not entail an accumulation of debt nor does it imply subordination , and is not a route to subjugation . |
| 12 | Each vertex can be regarded as a triangular pyramid with a base to edge ratio of π . |
| 13 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 14 | You may act as a role model and a mentor to others . |
| 15 | Glamorgan have also given a trial to Stewart Taylor , 20 , a left-arm spinner from Dublin who has played for Irish Schools . |
| 16 | McHale is giving a trial to 6ft 1in goalkeeper Ian Taylor , 24 , who has been released by Carlisle United . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're more like a sister to Sarah now , ’ John said . |
| 18 | An alternative means of finding the constant coefficients A i in the partial fraction expansion of equation ( 11.36 ) emerges upon multiplying through that equation by the factor ( ) to give which reveals that Although this relation is not immediately helpful because the factor ( ) is zero when , it must be appreciated that G(s) here is the ratio , , of a numerator to denominator polynomial in s in which where Q(s) is another polynomial in s . |
| 19 | With this performance , the Hagen Quarter seem resolved to provide argument refuting facile suggestions of Op. 135 as ‘ a reversion to Haydn ’ , suggestions which do no credit to either composer . |
| 20 | All carriages built at Wolverton from 1903–11 had wooden bodies with steel panels , but a reversion to wood panels came with the ‘ top light ’ stock . |
| 21 | Recently , however , there has been a reversion to analysis of pre-historic artefacts in terms of their contextual social relations , as semiotic and ideological representations , with respect both to users in the past and for us today ( e.g. Hodder ed. 1982 ; Miller and Tilley eds 1984 ) . |
| 22 | " This may not be savior-faire , but it looks like sang-froid " commented the ambassador in a cable to Washington . |
| 23 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 24 | The frisson of angry surprise and the instant impulse to prepare for a resort to arms which greeted the inevitable puncturing of those myths were therefore emotions I could neither share nor understand . |
| 25 | In 1654 he led a squadron to Newfoundland , though a storm disabled his ship and forced him to turn back . |
| 26 | This move formed the basis for the human sciences which , through their organization around the figure of man , once more brought about a unity to History . |
| 27 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 28 | A complete list of requirements will enable Council to present a case to Government for extra funds and will allow Council and partners ( especially local authorities ) to plan expenditure . |
| 29 | At Elstree a quite famous actress got in , and cooed a bit to Heather until we got to London . |
| 30 | Oh that one look 's a bit to bit to tight does n't it ? |