Example sentences of "of [noun sg] to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence the developer pays a sum of money to the landowner in exchange for the landowner agreeing to sell the land at an agreed price , within a defined period . |
| 2 | Presumably , he is entitled to take into account the likelihood of opposition to the march in question , although this is problematic . |
| 3 | Since the level of investment measures the level of demand for means of production , the growth in the investment level measures the direct contribution of accumulation to the growth in markets . |
| 4 | relevance of the experience and ability of key members of management to the transaction in question and to the business of the target |
| 5 | These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 6 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it |
| 8 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 9 | The documents were presented by India 's Central Bureau of Investigation to the court in Bhopal hearing charges of culpable homicide against Union Carbide , its Indian subsidiary and their executives . |
| 10 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 11 | Thus addition of a known amount of solvent to the solution in D , followed by mixing , gives the next concentration in the series . |
| 12 | Origen once remarked that the high moral ideal of the old polytheistic world was one of individual or family self-respect and honour , whereas the Christian ideal was one of service to the community in humility . |
| 13 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 14 | A narrow lane , it is bordered for much of its length by an avenue of trees , patches of bluebells along the grass verges beneath them adding a delicately pleasing touch of colour to the scene in springtime . |
| 15 | Many of the greatest treasures in National Trust houses would have been sold abroad long ago if it had not been for the ‘ in lieu ’ system , which was established in 1956 and which enabled private owners to give works of art to the nation in lieu of capital taxes . |
| 16 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 17 | It also assumes that the taxpayer 's forbearance from taking action in the overseas country was productive of profit to the taxpayer in that country — an assumption which their Lordships are not prepared to make . |
| 18 | The information is mostly of concern to the crew in the pilot 's cabin , who will then make the necessary course , altitude and speed corrections , and note items of equipment which may need a maintenance check , once the aircraft has reached its destination . |
| 19 | He it was who ushered in the new head of state to the dais in Prague Castle where the oath was sworn . |
| 20 | After a visit by the secretary of state to the estate in 1982 , a trust was set up with backing from the local authority ( Knowsley ) , the Abbey National Building Society and Barclays Bank . |
| 21 | May I draw the attention of the Secretary of State to the report in The Irish Times yesterday week about the recent meeting of the British-Irish parliamentary group in Dublin , and the contribution of his hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) about the security situation in proximity to the border ? |
| 22 | The work of the committees of the council is always the subject of report to the council in some form , either as a report of what the committee has done under delegated powers or by the submission for the approval of the council of the recommendations of the committee . |
| 23 | Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation . |
| 24 | In 1945 he became MP for Coventry East , and nine years later married Anne McDougall , the daughter of a senior manager of the aluminium company whose arrival in Banbury had brought a measure of prosperity to the town in the years of the Depression . |
| 25 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the growing power of the Congress movement , he entertained high expectations of the new policy in fostering the seeds of devotion to the empire in the Indian people , believing in the face of all the evidence that the reforms would create conditions whereby ‘ one day the greater love of the greater Commonwealth will be found to have come without observation ’ . |
| 27 | The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy 's publication Local Authority 1 : Accounting Principles ( 1985 , p. 11 ) proposes the following rule for identifying capital expenditure : ‘ Any outlay which is of value to the Authority in the provision of these services beyond the end of the year of account should be recorded as a capital asset provided there is no legal constraint . ’ |
| 28 | The strings ( with the flutes added at the octave above ) give the right feeling of impetuousness to the arpeggio in the final bar of the extract , the held octave F of the horns preventing any suspicion of thinness here . |
| 29 | It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) . |