Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may seem a little odd for prison staff to be looking at their prisoners as customers , but they are the direct consumers of our service , ’ explained Mr Stephen Twinn , prison director , who spent 23 years in the public sector at various grades of prison governor . |
| 2 | From this analysis , one can see whether it is possible for tax policy to be employed to offset the existence of market imperfections . |
| 3 | John Disley , course director of the first 11 London marathons , says : ‘ Because road running has become so much more important in recent years — in some countries even more important than track and field events — it seems to be sensible for world records to be ratified . ’ |
| 4 | MS-DOS and Windows requesters supporting TCP/IP networks have been added to InterBase for third parties and developers interested in SQL access to InterBase . |
| 5 | In this sense , their post-1980 labour relations initiatives are premised on an implicit understanding that flexibility in work organization is dependent upon worker commitment to company goals , rather than upon sophisticated control techniques ( Walton , 1985 : 78 ) . |
| 6 | Those best placed to influence government policy were also most dependent on state patronage to further their military and civil careers , while the police and tax functions delegated to serf-owners made the whole class in one sense a part of the machinery of government . |
| 7 | Internal finishes were generally simple with plaster finish to masonry , and lath-and-plaster to ceilings and stud partitions . |
| 8 | The ‘ northern enlargement ’ to Britain , Denmark and Eire on 1 January 1973 brought over 60 million more people into the Common Market , which now totalled 250 million , and was similar in population size to the US and USSR . |
| 9 | This will reduce Target 's profits that are subject to corporation tax to £100 , providing Target with an economic benefit of £33 ( assuming that it pays corporation tax at the full rate rather than at the small company 's rate under s13 ) . |
| 10 | According to Ben Hird ( the nineteen year old winner of it in 1900 ) in his book about the arrow , the most likely story was that it was won by John Wastell at an archery tournament while he was at Cambridge in 1653–4 ( it was not unusual for silver arrows to be given as prizes in such contests ) and brought back to his family home at Scorton . |
| 11 | The exotic shores of Trucial Oman , washed by the warm sparkling waters of the Persian Gulf , and rich in all the Arabian Nights romance of the Middle East , offer something unique in holiday experience to the get-away-from-it-all holidaymaker … |
| 12 | The sale , complete with satellite link to the Eiffel Tower , made a total of just over FFr42 million . |
| 13 | That it is inadequate for trade unions to merely pay lip service to a European prospective , or to be deterred by the refusal of the U K government to accept its European responsibilities and deny rights to U K workers that are enjoyed by every one of our European colleagues . |
| 14 | A clause similar to the following can be included to achieve this : ( a ) The parties agree to procure that the amount(s) of any payment(s) ( net of corporation tax to the extent that this is not franked by the payment of advance corporation tax payable on the distribution to be made pursuant to this clause ( a ) ) received by the Company pursuant to any claim(s) made under the keyman insurance effected by the Company pursuant to clause … shall as soon as practicable following receipt of such amount(s) by the Company be distributed to the Investor by way of dividend net of any advance corporation tax payable . |
| 15 | Toc H has invited a representative from the police vice squad and a local health worker involved with AIDS awareness to the seminar . |
| 16 | But the same anxiety is not present in union objections to these groups . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |
| 18 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 19 | In this volume we are in part trying to draw out the links that tie the assumptions involved in policy debates to some of the grim realities that affect local communities in contemporary city life . |
| 20 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 21 | In recent years the UK has moved from being heavily reliant on oil imports to self sufficiency . |
| 22 | Knights is opposed to specialist training to a greater extent than the Review writers ever were before the war . |
| 23 | 3 Clockwise from North West to North East . |
| 24 | This is preferable in cash-flow terms to Newco 's receiving group income from Target and having to pay ACT with no mainstream corporation tax of its own to absorb the ACT . |
| 25 | Dairy cows : Friesian calved heifers to 1080.00 , Friesian calved cows to 930.00 ; Friesian in calf cows to 1000.00 . |
| 26 | THE railwayman at Charing Cross was surprisingly forthcoming about return routes to Hastings . |
| 27 | A full job description of a bureau manager is reprinted in Appendix A. Extracting the essence , the manager is responsible for service delivery to the community by a team of workers . |
| 28 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 29 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 30 | You 're full of crap Laura to be quite honest with you ! |