Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Producers in smaller countries now face even higher barriers to entry in such industries , if they want to develop beyond ‘ dependent ’ exporting ; they have little to offer by way of an entry ticket to the two-way partnership . |
| 2 | Where there is a causal link between the grant of a rent-free period and the carrying out by the tenant of work to the property , and the tenant is obliged to carry out such work ( eg shopfitting ) , the tenant will be treated as making a supply to the landlord of an amount equivalent to the rent foregone . |
| 3 | However in view of the emphasis on prevention rather than punishment , the most likely form of action to be taken by the Factory Inspectorate is the service of an improvement notice to the factory occupier requiring certain measures to be taken , within a specified time , to achieve compliance with the Act 's provisions . |
| 4 | There are no instant fixes , either in terms of an absolutist retreat to the class-based socialism of the past , or in a headlong rush to the classless social democracy that has so often been portrayed as the only future . |
| 5 | Fourth , there is a right of appeal against an enforcement notice to the secretary of state and the courts . |
| 6 | 5 She converts her punch into an elbow strike to the face . |
| 7 | 3 The defender 's strike converts into an elbow slam to the side of the jaw . |
| 8 | The BBC Director-General Hugh Greene was scathing in 1960 about an ITA claim to the public service label . |
| 9 | The one MUP molecule in the asymmetric unit makes its most extensive interactions to a molecule related to it by a 2-fold rotation about an axis parallel to the axis of the β -barrel . |
| 10 | Avoid dry leaves , twigs , puddles and mud as any noise will act as an alarm signal to the animal . |
| 11 | Nelson and Epstein co-produced the New York première of Les Troyens at Carnegie Hall , and today Nelson credits his mature career as an opera conductor to the press coverage that surrounded the event . |
| 12 | One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan . |
| 13 | In Chanel 's new Les 4 Ombres ‘ Tumultes ’ , a gently sparkling pinky-beige Porcelain acts as an anchor colour to the other pastels in the palette , which include violet shade Nuit and a brown-violet Taupe . |
| 14 | National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) would be an appropriate starting point for an adult returner to the labour market with few formal qualifications and low self-confidence . |
| 15 | The argument of this paper , therefore , is that language learning should be seen as resulting from an interaction between an organism pre-adapted to the learning task and an environment which , to varying degrees , facilitates that task by providing the evidence that the organism requires . |
| 16 | Hence the emphasis was upon an expenditure solution to the UK 's budgetary problems . |
| 17 | In an opening address to the session on Jan. 16 , Powell had expressed his conviction that " the period of confrontation in Europe must end " , and declared that " as senior military officers " of their respective countries , the seminar 's participants were " duty-bound to contribute to the historic process unfolding today across [ the European ] continent " . |
| 18 | Thatcher stated in an opening address to the meeting that the continued forward stationing of nuclear weapons in member countries which would be in the front line of a conventional war ( i.e. on German territory ) remained fundamental to NATO strategy . |
| 19 | In an opening address to the conference , Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke stressed that APEC had no " hidden agenda " and was a genuine attempt to encourage " open , multilateral trade " in order to prevent the world economy from fragmenting into " defensive trading blocs " . |
| 20 | In the urban environment ( Douglas , 1983 ) and in an ecosystem approach to the city ( Douglas , 1981 ) Douglas employs an ecosystem or systems approach and that , particularly the control system , may provide the means for study in physical geography and so that is appropriately the subject for chapter 7 . |
| 21 | Cathery reflected all Wilson 's sentiments on the treatment of Germans when the war was over in an election address to the people of Bootle , where he was a parliamentary candidate . |
| 22 | Sir Benjamin Brodie , in an obituary address to the Royal Medicochirurgical Society ( of which Coleman had been a member ) said he though Coleman 's intellect was of a high order , and even gave indications of genius . |
| 23 | You will also need to run an airstone from an aquarium pump to the fish to provide them with plenty of oxygen and to monitor the water for ammonia and nitrite . |
| 24 | If an electron jumps from an orbit n to the orbit with n 2 the loss of energy is |
| 25 | This was followed by letters to The Times and the Daily Telegraph and , a year later , by an anniversary letter to The Times . |
| 26 | It can be falsified by an observation statement to the effect that some substance , x , did not expand when heated at time t . |
| 27 | He was killed by an axe blow to the base of his skull as he walked through woods to the railway station in the settlement of Semkhoz on his way to conduct the early morning service at his church in the nearby village of Novaya Derevnya . |
| 28 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |