Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who need personal assistance to enable them to live in their own homes have too often been consigned either to institutions or to enforced dependence on their families . |
| 2 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 3 | Every evening a crowd gathered to squabble over politics or new art forms or to ‘ dance to Zadkine 's mad music , ‘ The Camel ’ s Tango ’ . ’ |
| 4 | If the terms are too one-sided , they may provoke customer resistance , leading to a battle of forms or to the loss of potential custom and a bad trading reputation . |
| 5 | It is not uncommon for clients to show their report to their employers or to defence experts , whether to be helpful or to justify themselves . |
| 6 | The House of Lords found that there was no duty of care either to existing shareholders or to potential investors . |
| 7 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 8 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 9 | short period policies or to Contractors All Risks insurances . |
| 10 | To run cable down to light switches or to wall lights , it will usually be necessary to ‘ chase ’ slots in solid walls , though if you are rewiring a house which was originally wired in metal conduit , you may be able to use the existing conduit buried in the plaster leading to light switches to feed the cable down . |
| 11 | Hard-worked planning officers may need encouragement to pursue the matter and find letters from concerned members of the public about neglected buildings a useful prompt to take the matter to their superiors or to their committee . |
| 12 | It is salutary to begin our exploration of English mysticism with Rolle , because he reminds us that the mystical experiment could lead the unwary into all kinds of spiritual and physical dangers or to a sterile solipsism . |
| 13 | The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and |
| 14 | Indeed , Pausanias shows us what an account of a war with the Celts looked like in the pre-scientific days of Celtic studies , in the third century B.C. Direct contacts with the Celts seem to have been confined to prisoners or to mercenaries , bad subjects for ethnographic research |
| 15 | Oh yes , because er we had a lot of letter going back an forth to architects or to other slate merchants or to quarry owners . |
| 16 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 17 | On the subject of hitch-hiking , many self-defence books advise that it is safe to pick up hitch-hikers or to hitch-hike yourself in certain circumstances . |
| 18 | It is identical to the individual , and the ability of such an enterprise to enter contracts or to be bound by duties or obligations is the same as that of an individual . |
| 19 | Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention . |
| 20 | A picture emerges of a flourishing and diverse tradition of individual craftsmen whose skills and working methods were applied equally to full-sized harpsichords or to bentside spinets . |
| 21 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 22 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 23 | Proceedings under the Settled Land Act 1925 , the Trustee Act 1925 or for the administration of the estate of a deceased person may be commenced in the court which the plaintiff regards as most convenient having regard to the residences or places of business of the parties or to the subject matter of the proceedings ( Ord 4 , r 4 ) , but payment into court under s 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 shall be made to the court in whose district the person ( or any of them ) making the payment resides ( Ord 49 , r 20(2) ) . |
| 24 | A 'sham " has been defined by Diplock LJ ( as he then was ) in Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 QB 786 ( at p802 ) to include : [ A ] cts done or documents executed by the parties to the " sham " which are intended by them to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations ( if any ) which the parties intend to create . |
| 25 | Delegations were dispatched to London ‘ as nation to nation ’ , armies were regarded as provincial forces not to be sacrificed either to the needs of neighbouring provinces or to those of the nation . |
| 26 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 27 | This means that there is no need for staff to work in city-centre offices or to congest the city with traffic and spend time travelling to and from work . ’ |
| 28 | Entries can be made to the parish council offices or to Doug Ineson in Marske telephone Redcar 481877 . |
| 29 | It has not been possible to pass the disease on to animals or to human volunteers by inoculation of the organism . |
| 30 | There are two main ways in which genetic engineering can be used in agriculture : ( 1 ) by the introduction of a specific gene or genes into a plant or animal cell so that the performance of that plant or animal is enhanced in a particular way through the new trait which has been added , and ( 2 ) by the introduction of a gene or genes into a bacterial cell which will cause the bacterium and its subsequent generations to perform a useful function , for example , to produce a protein toxic to insects or a specific compound especially valuable to farm animals or to man . |