Example sentences of "a [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 2 | The latter does not offer a route to the former , and should be strenuously opposed as a mere manipulatory gambit on the part of ‘ capital ’ . |
| 3 | With Ole Larsen , a Finn , Colbeck reached the furthest south ( 78° 51 'S 50'W ) thus far achieved and reconnoitred a route to the Pole later followed by Roald Amundsen , who in 1912 after his triumph sent Colbeck a letter of thanks . |
| 4 | Thirdly , these regionally based programmes of initial training also provide a route to the obtaining of a professional qualification for an increasing number of people outside the formal further education sector , such as nurse tutors , education staff in the armed forces and in prisons , and industrial trainers . |
| 5 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 6 | Thus if Exceptional children is the preferred term , when the user looks under Children he must also be able to trace a route to the document . |
| 7 | a route to the heart of the dream . |
| 8 | A programme that may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course could be developed by adding further Stage 1 Biological Sciences modules ( see page 10 ) to this core . |
| 9 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Chemistry ; |
| 10 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Physics : |
| 11 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 12 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport has put forward proposals for a new route around the south of the town although protestors and the local CBI prefer a route to the north along the present A forty one . |
| 14 | For his part , the franchisee makes a payment to the franchisor for the rights to a particular area and a royalty based upon sales expressed as a percentage of sales . |
| 15 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 16 | So , for example , recent authority suggests a provision to the effect that the issuing of a certificate ‘ shall be conclusive evidence ’ that the conditions for the issue of the certificate had been satisfied would normally be effective to oust judicial review of the decision to issue the certificate . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , the Court held in a 1970 decision that , since Community regulations are directly applicable in all the Member States , the Member States can not , in order to ensure their application , in the absence of a provision to the contrary , take measures the purpose of which is to alter the scope of or add to their provisions . |
| 18 | Note : Paragraph ( 8 ) , or a provision to the like effect , needs to be adopted if a recognised body is to be able to ensure that shares are not held in breach of the Rules . |
| 19 | Note : Paragraph ( 8 ) , or a provision to the like effect , needs to be adopted if a recognised body is to be able to ensure that shares are not held in breach of the Rules . |
| 20 | In view of the disadvantages of the husband having a fixed sum tied up in property at a time of depreciating money values , practitioners might be advised to consider including in the mortgage a provision to the effect that any capital sum received by the wife during the currency of the mortgage ( for example , by way of inheritance or pools win ) should be paid to the husband by way of reduction of the mortgage debt . |
| 21 | People who have a vocation to the priesthood , ordained ministry or religious orders are required to turn their backs–on personal wishes and commit themselves to God regardless of cost . |
| 22 | City life , even in the environs of Kensington Palace , is a trial to the Prince ; he feels suffocated by London and longs to escape to the country and be at one with nature . |
| 23 | Mr Rees-Davies suggested that ‘ surely … if anonymity is to be given during a trial to the complainant , it should also be given to the accused ’ . |
| 24 | The sifu sets a time-limit to the fight , usually about two minutes , and supervises it closely . |
| 25 | WP Do you think we could see a reversion to the kind of right-wing authoritarianism which characterised Hungary between the wars ? |
| 26 | Political upheaval and war are not necessarily associated with curriculum change ; and even when they are , change seems habitually to be followed by a reversion to the status quo ante , a tendency to equate change with relabelling , a reassertion of institutional inertia . |
| 27 | But this , being a deliberative move to impart false information , would be a reversion to the linguistic . |
| 28 | For example , they write that the ‘ depoliticization of the popular press merely reflects a reversion to the pattern of the inter-war years … |
| 29 | But the past summer saw a reversion to the Old Weather ( cloud and warm rain : England in July , where the cricketer casts no shadow ) , and somehow Earthquake has stuck . |
| 30 | What Baldwin wanted was a reversion to the firm two-party system of his youth , but with the Labour Party securely established as a great party of state and the Liberal Party tucked up in the history books . |