Example sentences of "to an [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( b ) those accepting shareholders who accept the share offer and agree to transfer their shares in the target to the offeror will receive the right to an allotment of shares in the offeror credited as fully paid . |
| 3 | Indeed , he was in full flood in his Detective-Sergeant McWhirter voice , to an accompaniment of giggles from Felicity , when he heard a voice behind him . |
| 4 | Enthoven argued that by separating the purchase of health care from its provision and management , and subjecting providers to an element of competition for contracts , providers would now have a financial incentive to cut costs , improve quality and be more responsive to what consumers wanted . |
| 5 | But weathering and slumping will very rapidly destroy the original form and reduce the slope to an angle of stability of typically between 20 and 40° . |
| 6 | As it was , I believe my judgement proved quite sound on the question of timing ; the fact that things turned out as they did is entirely attributable to an error of judgement in another direction altogether . |
| 7 | But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition . |
| 8 | In their last financial year , these 11 utilities raised their audit fees by 20% in total , thanks to an increase of 29% at British Gas , 100% at North West Water , Scottish Power and Severn Trent , 50% at Anglian Water and 20% at Thames Water . |
| 9 | This would then lead to an increase of oxides of nitrogen in the stratosphere which , through chemical reactions , would deplete ozone . |
| 10 | When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous . |
| 11 | Leavis himself is by now reduced to an expression of gratitude for the letters page of The Times in " the world of triumphant modernity , the world of power centres from which the quantity-addicted machinery of civilization is controlled , directed and exploited " and in which " literature in the old sense has ceased to matter " Henceforth the conception of English as a central force for sustaining the national cultural " heritage " would become largely the property of the right . |
| 12 | They had to pass idle days of waiting that stretched ahead to an eternity of weeks in August . |
| 13 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 14 | schoolgirlish look , and bore a close resemblance to an officeful of typists at a hen party . |
| 15 | Taken from the Spanish word , macho , meaning male , machismo refers to an ideology of behaviour in which distinctly different lifestyles are deemed proper for men and women . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All sections are subject to an excess of £15 per person per section , except for Sections 1 , 3 , 9 and 12 which do not have an excess , and Section 4 in respect of Loss of Deposit only claims where the excess is only £5 per person . |
| 18 | This will improve the tester 's familiarity with the test and gradually lead to an accumulation of knowledge of testing in general . |
| 19 | Patients move between these two subtypes , although chronicity leads to an accumulation of patients in the binge-eating/purging subgroup . |
| 20 | The discovery of the major parenteral non-A , non-B hepatitis agent in 1989 has led to an explosion of research on this virus , the hepatitis C virus . |
| 21 | and invite the hearer to an exchange of views in which he will agree with him or otherwise in belief or attitude . |
| 22 | Patrick Blair , in his letter of recommendation to Sir Hans Sloane ( 1721 ) referred to an exchange of correspondence with Philip Miller . |
| 23 | And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace . |
| 24 | Working links were established with institutions in France , Germany and Spain , leading to an exchange of students in the forthcoming session 1992/93 . |
| 25 | an act done with the authority of the owner could amount to an appropriation of goods for the purposes of the theft act 1968 where such authority or ‘ consent had been obtained by deception . |
| 26 | Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press . |
| 27 | This would lead to Russian reprisals , and sometimes to an escalation of conflict with which the sorely pressed garrisons in the wilderness were ill equipped to deal . |
| 28 | Reacting to an upsurge of violence in Northern Ireland , the UK government announced ( i ) on Nov. 13 that the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) was to be strengthened by 441 officers ; and ( ii ) on Nov. 27 that a further army battalion would be sent to Northern Ireland , increasing the number of British regular soldiers there from 10,500 to 11,000 . |
| 29 | Those who cling to an impression of Reger as an unrelievedly turgid and ponderous musician should certainly sample the 6 Burlesques of 1901 which open this recital . |
| 30 | Anything or anyone who falls into the black hole through the event horizon will come to an end of time at the singularity . |