Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An openness of mind to the European religious reaction against liberal Protestantism , represented especially by Karl Barth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Liberals chartered the GTP specifically as an act of defiance to the Canadian Conservative party and its allies on the CPR . |
| 6 | At her son 's funeral she refused to cry in an act of defiance to the IRA . |
| 7 | He began to recite an act of resignation to the Divine Will . |
| 8 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | would be disclosed on an investigation of title to the properties ; or |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Patricia sensed , with some satisfaction , that she was an object of curiosity to the cinema attendants . |
| 16 | Although the leader of the Union Defence League in succession to Walter Long , he shared Law 's belief in the inevitability of ultimate compromise , and this made him , like Law , an object of suspicion to the diehard Irish Unionists . |
| 17 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 18 | An attempt has been made by Nightingale to show that Rochester was the centre from which an area of land to the north had been centuriated on the regular basis of 20 by 20 actus squares . |
| 19 | On an area of heath to the south , we found the scented bog myrtle and , on a newly constructed bank , grew the very rare ten violet . |
| 20 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
| 21 | His thick lips chuckled but the goatee beard crushed the effect of the smile , imparting an air of superiority to the epicene face . |
| 22 | Eleven members of the Democratic Progressive party elected to the National Assembly have been barred from taking their seats because they will not take an oath of loyalty to the Republic of China ( the official name for Taiwan ) , only to the Republic of Taiwan . |
| 23 | Upon appointment each commissioner was to take an oath of loyalty to the EEC including ‘ neither to seek nor to take instructions from any Government or body ’ . |
| 24 | Servicemen would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the people of Ukraine by Jan. 20 , and those who refused would transfer to another state of the CIS . |
| 25 | Most strikingly , in 1213 , the five teachers of law were ordered to take an oath of loyalty to the city . |
| 26 | One by one they were brought to Rome and , as opportunity arose , they were required to take an oath of obedience to the Holy See " super negotio imperii " , " on the matter of the empire " . |
| 27 | Baha bin Mohamed , Brunei : released January 1990 after swearing an oath of allegiance to the Sultan , the Government , and the laws of the state of Brunei Darussalam . |
| 28 | The young men in the parliament have taken an oath of allegiance to the Lithuanian state , swearing to defend it to the death . |
| 29 | At Aimar 's command the inhabitants of St Martial 's took an oath of allegiance to the Young King and then prepared to stand siege . |
| 30 | Priests take an oath of allegiance to the bishop at their induction into their livings and at set times , often on Maundy Thursday , they will renew their vows . |