Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wester Ross Wilderness proposal , it appears , only objects to the centredness of certain kinds of humans ( mountain bikers , Monro-baggers , etc ) and it urges the CCS to recognise the crucial role of the local landowners as ‘ good stewards ’ of this region . |
| 2 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 3 | It was only thanks to the scene made by Gilly that his admission about their visit to Puddephat 's rooms had gone unnoticed . |
| 4 | This interpretation makes it quite clear that the disposition in the will has failed , and that it is only thanks to the trust clause that the nurses do obtain this additional income . |
| 5 | At the junction of these rock types , springs form and the water runs down ravines to the sea unless diverted into levadas ( drainage channels ) . |
| 6 | They crossed a bridge and came down steps to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | This could be continued down corners to the skirting and around doors . |
| 8 | In many cases , the traits of resignation and the low inspirations that Lewis describes are merely responses to the situation in which the poor find themselves and will therefore change if the situation changes . |
| 9 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 10 | Once received the data will be converted from radio to microwave signals and passed along cables to the control centre nearby . |
| 11 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 12 | Heavy lorries thunder along motorways to the south . |
| 13 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 14 | In general , Britain 's laws do not lay down limits to the noise that a factory makes outside its walls , although in some cases local councils have permitted factory developments only on the proviso that they do not exceed specific sound levels . |
| 15 | We must get the situation straight that the County Council is the ruling authority , we are only a subsidiary as a county and we get our problems on our traffic and our highways as we are only agents to the County Council , and the County Council control the education of Social Services . |
| 16 | Though considered a floating plant , it frequently puts down roots to the tank bottom , and relies on nutrients both from the water and the substratum . |
| 17 | It was permitted to offer only recommendations to the Committee of Ministers , without bring able to bind the latter in any way : quite often , the Committee simply chose to ignore or reject Assembly recommendations . |
| 18 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 19 | The station was the place where the railway greeted its local customers and took their money , the doorway through which important people right up to royalty would pass on visits to the district , the storeplace for every kind of commodity , precious and bulky in transit from town to country and vice versa . |
| 20 | Parker are no longer authorities to the contrary . |
| 21 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 22 | Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it . |
| 23 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 24 | ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . |
| 25 | In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’ |
| 26 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
| 27 | They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol . |
| 28 | Charles and John Higgs clicked , and it was largely thanks to the relationship struck up with him , and the sheer personality of the man , that Charles became wholly and genuinely enthused by every aspect of the Duchy . |
| 29 | It is largely thanks to the perseverance of a former CO of the RAF Institute of Aviation Pathology , Group Captain Mason ( now Professor of Forensic Pathology at Edinburgh University ) , that there is international recognition of the contribution of the aviation pathologist in aircraft accident investigation by way of a specification recommending their positive involvement in formal investigations written into Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation . |
| 30 | ‘ And I do n't return night after night to the flat — largely thanks to the fact that I am footloose and fancy-free , I can follow my job wherever it takes me . ’ |