Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 2 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 3 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
| 4 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 5 | Contribution to society : Er … ah … um … well , she raises money for charity , helps keep Hello ! magazine in business and deserves an award for services to the airline industry |
| 6 | Montupet , for example , is a company which is supposed to be an opportunity for employment to the Catholics of West Belfast . |
| 7 | ‘ Chadwick v. Chadwick , 22 L.J.Ch. 329 may be explained on the grounds that a trustee , like an agent , can not resist discovery in an action in relation to the property which he is alleged to hold on trust . ’ |
| 8 | An openness of mind to the European religious reaction against liberal Protestantism , represented especially by Karl Barth . |
| 9 | 9.11 The Council will provide reasonable assistance to an employee in relation to the submission of a claim to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board . |
| 10 | True , PR at times prevents complete clear-outs of government ; but the parties that stay in office , despite swings among voters , are usually small , as in Germany ( Italy is a special case ; its large Communist party was not acceptable as an alternative in government to the Christian Democrats ) . |
| 11 | The Council fathers decisively rejected Protestant doctrines on central issues such as justification , the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and sacramental efficacy , and promulgated a series of decrees on purgatory , the veneration of relics , images and saints , and indulgences — almost , it seems , as an act of defiance to the reformers who had denied them . |
| 12 | The Liberals chartered the GTP specifically as an act of defiance to the Canadian Conservative party and its allies on the CPR . |
| 13 | At her son 's funeral she refused to cry in an act of defiance to the IRA . |
| 14 | He began to recite an act of resignation to the Divine Will . |
| 15 | ‘ … is a sign that the parishioners have a great affection for their church , and an act of commitment to the service of Almighty God , to whose honour and glory St Peter 's Church was built and maintained . ’ |
| 16 | Scepticism and an attitude of indifference to the prospect of final extinction have proved , as a matter of practical experience , no adequate substitute for the doctrine of immortality , however illusory one may hold it to be . |
| 17 | For example , in P1/T1–T4 we could retain only the rows marked with an asterisk in addition to the objective row , without any loss of information . |
| 18 | Celia and Richard Chamberlain of Old Malton Road , Staxton , Scarborough , have been refused permission for an aviary on appeal to the Department of the Environment . |
| 19 | Although Rover had reported an operating profit of £27 million for 1987 , after years of heavy losses , covered by government handouts , the chances of privatising the company by an issue of shares to the public still seemed remote . |
| 20 | would be disclosed on an investigation of title to the properties ; or |
| 21 | An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect . |
| 22 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 23 | For he was an eagle in flight to the North where his own kind were and no raven nor man would stop him now . |
| 24 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 25 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 26 | There is a place for the social PTA ‘ faggots and peas evening ’ or ten pin bowling at the George and Dragon , though it needs to be understood by all that attendance by staff at such social evenings is purely a matter of personal choice and not to be taken as an indicator of loyalty to the school . |
| 27 | One such occasion was on an outing with Steve to the Apollo Theatre in London 's Shaftesbury Avenue to see Peter O'Toole in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell . |
| 28 | As a result , one can indeed envisage a situation in which we have before us an over production in all links of the chain which expresses itself in an over-production of means of consumption , i.e. in an overproduction in relation to the consumer market , which is precisely the expression of a general over-production . |
| 29 | It is considered more satisfactory to adhere to the conventional conveyancing procedure so that the husband 's solicitors will submit an epitome of title to the wife 's solicitors or ( in the case of registered land ) office copy entries of the registered title . |
| 30 | Yet they played an important part in providing an entrée for headhunting to the Boardrooms of Britain . |