Example sentences of "[conj] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not extend to the contents of documents ( such as pleadings or affidavits ) which have not been read in open court or to reports of evidence given in closed court , or to confidential reports which are available to councillors but not specifically read in open debate . |
| 2 | Our analysis will seek to show , however , that much of the literature is concerned either with providing different ( often ingenious ) ways of measuring the fairly obvious symptoms of economic malaise , or to reports on how the ‘ British disease ’ of low growth and low productivity has affected various parts of the economy . |
| 3 | You can learn to paint at the foot of Cezanne 's Mont Sainte-Victoire , to cook in Umbria , to ride in the Rockies , meditate in Andalucia , or to skin-dive in the Caribbean . |
| 4 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 5 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 6 | Section 4(1) ( f ) provides : ( f ) that the defect ( i ) constituted a defect in a product ( " the subsequent product " ) in which the product in question had been comprised ; and ( ii ) was wholly attributable to the design of the subsequent product or to compliance by the producer of the product in question with instructions given by the producer of the subsequent product . |
| 7 | The effect of the drugs on their length of life was very difficult to judge , and small differences could be attributed to many incidental causes , such as differences in smoking , dietary habits , the amount of exercise they took , or to changes in all these habits over the years . |
| 8 | In Gouriet v. Union of Post Office Workers [ 1978 ] A.C. 435 Lord Wilberforce said at p. 481 , that the right to invoke the assistance of civil courts in aid of the criminal law is ‘ an exceptional power confined , in practice , to cases where an offence is frequently repeated in disregard of a , usually , inadequate penalty … or to cases of emergency … |
| 9 | We 'd recommend Garda for those who want plenty to do on holiday , or to groups with different interests — families with teenage children perhaps . |
| 10 | The question posed is how far social rights should now be conceived as including , beyond such things as education , health care and the alleviation of severe poverty , a right to employment or to an appropriate basic income , to decent housing , or to participation by employees in the management of their firms ; and if they are so conceived , what policies and institutional changes could effectively establish them . |
| 11 | And the social base of a governing elite can be open or closed , but is always susceptible to challenge or to displacement by a counter-elite : ‘ History is the graveyard of aristocracies ’ ( Pareto , 1966 , p. 249 ) . |
| 12 | Any spare capital , regulators have insisted , must be committed first to strengthening balance sheets weakened by unwise lending , or to takeovers of the rump of the thrift industry . |
| 13 | Others refuse to accept risks from activities which , they believe , bring no benefit to them or to society at large . |
| 14 | Such actions may be perceived as regulation or deregulation and may have economic effects ( as will be discussed in chapter 4 and elsewhere ) , but they may essentially be a response to special interests or to fashions in ideas . |
| 15 | From the host country 's point of view , although no capital has been transferred , the licence payments are the exact equivalent of dividends paid on debenture shares or to payments of interest on a loan . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable — ( a ) on summary conviction , to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both ; ( b ) on conviction on indictment , to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable — ( a ) on summary conviction , to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both ; ( b ) on conviction on indictment , to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both . |
| 18 | The court stated : We were unanimously satisfied that the oral evidence , together with the documentation , established clearly that from the date on which ( the settlor ) purported to constitute the settlement he exercised dominion and control over the trustee in the management and administration of the settlement , including distributions of capital to himself or to others as gifts or loans , and the making and disposition of investments . |
| 19 | What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing . |
| 20 | This mode of rationality , whether it is applied to scientific or technological problems or to problems of economic production is governed by ‘ strategies based on analytic knowledge ’ ( Habermas 1971 : 92 ) . |
| 21 | Amnesty also produced evidence linking the " death squads " to the security forces or to members of the UNP . |
| 22 | Provocative dress and casual promiscuity ( which are by no means the same thing ) may be abhorrent to juries in the southern states of America or to judges in this country . |
| 23 | Er , the comparable cost for a family of four in this country to go to somewhere like Alton Towers or to Chessington in your own car including the cost of petrol of getting there is of the order of fifty or sixty pounds at the outside . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 26 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 27 | Obviously Ted and I were n't always around to scrutinize the intricate excitements of this new love , especially as Dad and Eva spent many evenings over the river in London proper , going to the theatre to see controversial plays , to German films or to lectures by Marxists , and to high-class parties . |
| 28 | To establish whether government investment was made where it was likely to see the greatest return or to areas of greatest deprivation , public spending patterns were analysed in the light of private investment and previous revitalisation and deprivation patterns . |
| 29 | Yet it is the ‘ capital of the Highlands ’ , Inverness , whose inhabitants boast of speaking the purest English in the British Isles ; and in the Black Isle fishing village of Avoch ( pronounced ‘ Ouch ’ ) a unique local patois is variously ascribed to an influx of Cornishmen long ago or to seamen from Spanish Armada wrecks . |
| 30 | is not a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles ( Type Approval ) ( Great Britain ) Regulations 1979 applies but which is being driven from premises of the manufacturer by whom it was made , or of a distributor of vehicles or dealer in vehicles , to premises of a distributor of or dealer in vehicles of the purchasers of the vehicle , or to premises of a person obtaining possession of the vehicle under a hiring agreement or hire-purchase agreement . |