Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , I should very much welcome any extension of Welsh Question Time , because that would be such an advantage to the Government side of the House . |
| 2 | It 's always an advantage to the man that 's making the money , who 's using these guys to use this thing to divide them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When a home country umpire makes a mistake then , unavoidably , an impression is created that he is giving an advantage to the home team . |
| 4 | The existence of variable orthographies is an advantage to the ME dialectologist in exactly the same way that the existence of spoken variation is an advantage in present-day research . |
| 5 | England tour manager Bob Bennett said : ‘ He has been selected because we feel his experience will be an advantage to the side in this particular game . ’ |
| 6 | Every stage in the process had to offer an advantage to the organism in the struggle for existence : natural selection can not plan ahead and can only promote those characters that are useful in the short term . |
| 7 | For example , an airline ticket , allowing occupation of an empty seat , costs an airline nothing — in fact , in such a case there could be a negative cost , as it might be an advantage to the airline to have an experienced crew member on the flight . |
| 8 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 9 | When the recipient of the signal sees through the deception , there may be an advantage to the signaller in producing a more extravagant signal . |
| 10 | Finally , its admission must be seen as an advantage to the security industry and to the BSIA . |
| 11 | As an addition to the architecture of modern Glasgow , the Eagle Building breaks little new ground in other respects . |
| 12 | Just nine months after he declared : ‘ You are making an addition to the home life of your country on which above all others , our national life depends , ’ their first daughter Sarah was born . |
| 13 | Would the Bureau of Indirect Taxes resist such an addition to the complexity of their task ? |
| 14 | The use of activated silica " as an addition to the alum coagulant gives speedier flocculation and a more stable floc , so that it is employed fairly extensively . |
| 15 | This is an addition to the couple of paragraphs that appeared under ‘ Five Years of Railway Slides ’ — which referred to Col. Savill 's talk — in our last issue . |
| 16 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 17 | She taught women to embroider designs she herself had made as an addition to the income of families hit by the destruction of the vines by the oidium disease in the 1850s . |
| 18 | In Couldery v. Bartrum ( 1881 ) 19 Ch.D. 394 at 400 , Jessel M.R. , discussing the rule in Pinnel 's Case and compositions with creditors , said ’ … as every debtor had not a stock of canary birds , or tomtits , or rubbish of that kind , to add to his dividend , it was felt desirable to bind the creditors in a sensible way by saying that , if they all agreed , there should be a consideration imported from the agreement constituting an addition to the dividend , so as to make the agreement no longer nudum pactum , but an agreement made for valuable consideration , then there would be satisfaction . |
| 19 | It is believed that 53 was renumbered 17 and 52 remained as an addition to the fleet . |
| 20 | It was held that the income arising from the £2M was to be assessed basically as if a new source of income had arisen , ie there had been an addition to the account within s66(3) and the income arising from the addition would be assessed on an actual basis during the early years . |
| 21 | I quite agree that certain difficulties might be imposed on the Inland Revenue if they were to pursue every deposit account and find whether or not there had been an addition to the account during the course of the year . |
| 22 | Usually they merely represent a transfer of ownership from one person or institution to another , rather than an addition to the stock of assets . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the company provides a compensation package which amounts to an addition to the employee 's salary — of which any not spent on housing may be kept . |
| 24 | However , what follows is an attempt to give powerful currency to the notion that such an addition to the list of significant textual features is nonetheless crucial since it raises our awareness of the cultural paradigm within which our critical perspectives are themselves shaped , and goes some way toward making visible an otherwise invisible dimension of our teaching . |
| 25 | That is , the OALDCE is taken as being an addition to the corpus , each word and each of its tags is considered to have occurred once in the corpus . |
| 26 | Jack jokingly referred to her as an addition to the family . |
| 27 | The senior , Flying Officer Jimmy Coutts , was married to a farmer 's daughter and they were expecting an addition to the family at any moment . |
| 28 | But it is the solar eclipse on the 24th that holds the greatest potential for you : an addition to the family or change of location could be on the cards for next year . |
| 29 | If record 113 were an addition to the file in fig. 7.15(a) , the new structure would be as in fig. 7.15(b) . |
| 30 | ‘ Congratulations — Alan tells us you 're expecting an addition to the tribe . ’ |