Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 2 | For the authors , the semantic net had been so important that to see node-link-node triples before each paragraph provided a kind of unity to the document . |
| 3 | Secondly , the European Court judgment provided a method of approach to media rights which can be adopted by British judges . |
| 4 | Following this election victory , however , Tory fortunes were more mixed : Butler 's electioneering budget , with substantial tax-cuts , rebounded as imports rose sharply and the exchange rate of the pound came under pressure , forcing the introduction of ‘ stop ’ measures ; Eden 's popularity waned rapidly even before the ignominy of attempted intervention at Suez in 1956 , which then shook the ‘ Great British ’ imperial ideology that provided a pole of attraction to Toryism for sections of all classes in society . |
| 5 | This drew a flood of zinc to the LME ; stocks rose by 34,300 tonnes to 102,800 tonnes — almost a seven-year high . |
| 6 | To wind up the proceedings Commandant Vonla McBride , a member of the RNLI 's Committee of Management , proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness The Duke of Kent for attending the meeting and for presenting the awards . |
| 7 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 8 | In a wide-ranging television interview on Nov. 9 President François Mitterrand proposed a number of changes to the Constitution , including a reduction in the president 's term from seven " at least " to six years , a reduction of presidential powers and a corresponding increase in the powers of the Prime Minister and the National Assembly , a strengthening of the independence of the judiciary ( including ending ministerial immunity from prosecution in ordinary courts ) , and greater scope for the use of referendums . |
| 9 | Beattie as deputy leader devoted a lot of energy to trying to build up branches and Robinson , on becoming party secretary , hired the Party 's first full-time worker before himself becoming a paid official . |
| 10 | He devoted a lot of time to the personal relationships of politics and to conducting them in a mollifying , unhurried way . |
| 11 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 12 | Once he had acquired supreme power he created a House of Commons to which Scotland and Ireland elected members , though he ignored a request from Barbados for representation . |
| 13 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 14 | This piece of research studied a scheme of entry to degree courses for candidates aged twenty one years and over who were without formal matriculation qualifications . |
| 15 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 16 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 17 | This added a bit of life to the Leeds attack . |
| 18 | Without thinking , he added a carton of milk to his basket . |
| 19 | She heaved a great sigh of which she was privately rather proud , thinking that it added a touch of verisimilitude to the sad tale she was spinning . |
| 20 | Erm the inspectors used to come round and it was the number of pupils he managed to get into the county school that added a lot of points to his record . |
| 21 | Although the style of Quando was totally alien to Marr , he enjoyed the challenge immensely and his quickly learnt funk guitar added a spark of humanity to the proceedings . |
| 22 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 23 | Union Discount scored a leap of 23p to 94p and pundits reckon a bid is imminent . |
| 24 | Then again , in 1928 , physicist and Nobel prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Göttingen University , " Physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . " |
| 25 | The earthquake of 12 October caused a range of damage to over150 Pharaonic , Coptic and Islamic monuments in and around Cairo , weakening a number of structures that were already unstable and details of whose condition before the quake do not exist . |
| 26 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 27 | Well it , it , it caused a lot of aggravation to some |
| 28 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 29 | Det Con Dave Stanmore of Bootle CID said : ‘ It was a despicable crime which caused a lot of distress to the families of servicemen who died during the war . |
| 30 | The sales of work by other artists in no way signalled a lessening of commitment to the collection and its future . |