Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 2 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 3 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 4 | Mrs Hawkins agreed to put it into practice after an appeal to the public . |
| 5 | The death penalty , upheld after an appeal to the Supreme Court on Feb. 16 and subsequently confirmed by the Council of State chaired by President Fidel Castro , had been passed on Feb. 5 by the Havana Popular Provincial Court . |
| 6 | In 1286 he joined Edward in Gascony , after an embassy to the papal curia , and in 1289–90 he journeyed once again to the curia to discuss , inter alia , the granting of a papal dispensation for the marriage of Edward of Carnarvon , Edward 's son , to Margaret of Scotland , the Maid of Norway [ q.v. ] , and Edward 's projected crusade . |
| 7 | Swansea manager Frank Burrows adds Reuben Agboola to his squad after an injury to Keith Walker in a 0-0 draw with Plymouth this week . |
| 8 | It is not possible to demonstrate adequately a specific hypothesis but one fact is certain : Wilfrid so earned the enmity of Ecgfrith that despite an appeal to Rome which endorsed the justice of his case , he remained in exile and was still an outcast from his church when Ecgfrith fell in battle against the Picts on 20 May 685 . |
| 9 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 10 | Despite an interruption to the race and appalling weather , he ran 622 miles , covering over 100 miles a day and running further on each consecutive day . |
| 11 | The NPT thus repeated a pledge first made by America , Russia and Britain to work towards an end to nuclear testing ‘ for all time ’ . |
| 12 | Although a member state may limit the number of members of an EEIG to twenty , it is envisaged that , in the UK , professional partnerships which may have over twenty members will be treated as a single member . |
| 13 | The right of an editor to trial by jury is one reason why this law has not been invoked since 1947 : no government will risk the embarrassment of an acquittal . |
| 14 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 15 | This was only the fourteenth successful ascent , and his account of this exploit , published in 1828 , Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc , on the 8th and 9th August , 1827 , is a classic of Alpine literature : a vivid narrative of the pleasures and perils of mountaineering enhanced by examples of his skilful draughtsmanship made on the journey . |
| 16 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 17 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 18 | The matching of the activities of an organisation to its resource capability |
| 19 | The separate international personality of an international organisation with treaty-making power sets up another third party relationship that did not arise under the 1969 Convention , that of the member States of an organisation to a treaty concluded between the organisation and a State , or another organisation . |
| 20 | The movement of personnel from one part of an organisation to another is made easier . |
| 21 | In Schorske 's words , only in Austria was aestheticism ‘ not a form of protest versus bourgeois civilization ’ but ‘ an expression of that civilization , an affirmation of an attitude to life in which neither ethical nor social ideals played a dominant part ’ . |
| 22 | Now that we have the outline of an approach to the study of the meanings of words , we can turn our attention to the task of providing a more exact characterisation of the linguistic units which will form the objects of our study . |
| 23 | The work of Burns and Stalker that we briefly introduced earlier is an example of an approach to organisations using the concept of a system . |
| 24 | However , together the two concepts offer a starting point for the development of an approach to assessment which is systematic , holistic , and incorporates the principle of user and carer participation . |
| 25 | Here then we have a very clear description of an approach to music education that places the emphasis firmly on the creative exploration of the medium , in a way that is refreshingly new compared with the approach found in more traditional music departments . |
| 26 | During the year , the Group made progress towards achieving its commitment to become an industry leader in its awareness of an approach to environmental issues . |
| 27 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 28 | To assist in the development of an approach to school internal evaluation in Strathclyde Catholic schools that considers the distinctive philosophy of the Catholic school as a basis for review and development . |
| 29 | Two years later Francis Joseph showed that his controlling influence was a reality when , during the Balkan crisis of 1913 , he ignored the demand of the entire council of ministers for the presentation of an ultimatum to Montenegro . |
| 30 | It is quite clear that in the 17th and 18th centuries and , indeed , up to the enactment of the Judicature Act 1873 the courts , and in particular the Court of King 's Bench , consistently declined to exercise any jurisdiction over any matters in which a right of appeal lay from the benchers of an Inn to the judges sitting as a domestic tribunal . |