Example sentences of "a measure of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1945 he became MP for Coventry East , and nine years later married Anne McDougall , the daughter of a senior manager of the aluminium company whose arrival in Banbury had brought a measure of prosperity to the town in the years of the Depression . |
| 2 | They are a very popular attraction , a prime objective for countless visitors ; they have put Ingleton on the map and brought a measure of prosperity to the village . |
| 3 | He pointed out that even in the original form which it took when Cocks v. Thanet District Council was decided , section 69(1) conferred a measure of discretion on the local authority since in principle at least the local authority could choose between the three methods of discharging its duty which were set out in paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) . |
| 4 | Both the SRs and the Mensheviks attracted a measure of support among the more backward , less class-conscious workers . |
| 5 | But the anticlerical spirit was turned against the archbishop and the traditional , worldly , married clergy of Milan , not against the church as such , and won in time a measure of support from the reformed papacy . |
| 6 | The army put itself forward as the vehicle for such policies , and in taking radical domestic and international action the army could count on a measure of support from the rural community . |
| 7 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 8 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 9 | Lord Templeman has given examples of Parliament 's encroachments on the principle ( sometimes involving a measure of protection for the person compelled to make disclosure , and sometimes not ) and Lord Ackner , quoting a passage from Cross on Evidence , 7th ed. , p. 427 , has reminded your Lordships that the principle is not immutable . |
| 10 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 11 | The fiction is that those state agencies are able to and do exert democratic influences ; or at least , they impose a measure of accountability to the public . |
| 12 | Finally , the House of Lords provides a forum removed from party ties and considerations , where the experienced and distinguished perform functions of assistance , advice , continuity and , when needed , a measure of restraint on the popularly-elected transient majority in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | A measure of freedom to the son , and the last indignity to the father 's bones — what manner of dealing is that ? ’ said Llewelyn , smouldering . |
| 14 | The second priority will be the division of your holding into a number of main blocks , depending upon your acreage , to give you a measure of control over the grazing of your pastures , to separate groups of stock ( e.g. rams from ewes ) , and to shut off fields for hay or arable crops . |
| 15 | The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train . |
| 16 | If they were both to preserve a measure of control over the wage structure in a capitalist economy and to win adequate state pensions for their members , then a retirement condition was inevitable . |
| 17 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 18 | Lastly , a charge affords a chargee a measure of control over the business of the debtor company . |
| 19 | In March this year it increased its presence in the UK with the acquisition of London Life , the British mutual insurer , which attracted a measure of opposition from the British group 's policyholders . |
| 20 | Rather than use an arbitrary measure of commission costs ( since these can vary according to the exact size of the deal and the market makers spread ) we have attempted to capture the competitive effects associated with changes in transactions costs by using a measure of turnover on the UK Stock Exchange . |
| 21 | A visitor to the city wrote any woman , if her credit will serve to borrow a pan , and to buy but a measure of mault in the market , setts up brewing . |
| 22 | Away from the ether of Breakspear and deprived of his occupational gown , Cyril Ockleton was transmuted into a more subdued and less boyish version of himself , as if sensing that his true persona required a measure of disguise in the wider world . |
| 23 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 24 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
| 25 | These seven pieces of work were designed to enable across-class comparison and analysis , but over fifty other topic-related activities involving art work , mathematics , science , music , environmental studies and various kinds of research were also suggested in order to give each class and its teacher a measure of autonomy over the way their work progressed . |
| 26 | The leader of the PUK , Jalal Talabani , announced on April 24 that President Saddam Hussein had agreed " in principle " to grant a measure of autonomy to the Kurds based on the implementation of the government 's 1970 autonomy agreement [ see p. 23916 ] . |
| 27 | This debate has centred on the two views of bureaucracy found in the writings of Marx himself , one presenting it as an instrument by which the dominant class protects its interests , the other as an instrument of power through which the state is able to rise above and regulate class conflict with a measure of autonomy from the dominant class . |
| 28 | In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes . |
| 29 | As noted above , there is a measure of agreement between the account ( particularly Mecdi ) and Katib Celebi that the year 877 marks a break in Molla Husrev 's career . |
| 30 | There is a measure of agreement from the above studies that in right handers the presence of left handedness in the family is associated with a shift in tachistoscopic asymmetry on verbal tasks away from a strong RVF superiority . |