Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 The Council reiterates its previously expressed view that the existing system of local government in Scotland should be retained , that a convincing case for change remains to be made and that the cost , confusion and disruption involved in the proposed reorganisation is not justified .
2 The principled case for privacy needs to be made .
3 Paykel ( 1979 ) also reported an excess of life events in the six months before a patient 's first admission for schizophrenia compared to a general population sample in New Haven .
4 In a small town in Surrey an old woman 's plea for help leads to an unsettling encounter
5 If the kingdom of Heaven is interpreted as the Christian community in Matthew 's Gospel , then the plea for patience applies to the community itself .
6 It is sensible for a contractor to apply for payment for work done to a specified date to limit the amount of funding required .
7 The other great assumption , of course , is that the framework for timetabling has to be the 40 period week .
8 In effect the authors reject the hypothesis about unemployment contributing to crime on theoretical ( or subjective ) grounds , but they imply that they tested it fully .
9 In Wales the support for devolution amounted to a derisory 11.8 per cent .
10 The Court of Appeal held the defendants liable in negligence for damage caused to the dress .
11 council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in £ residential premises designed and owned by the council .
12 council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in residential premises designed and owned by the council .
13 How does the necessity for action relate to the necessity for mental holism ?
14 Among other things that it is the teacher who has all the good ideas , thereby making it difficult to hand over responsibility for decision making to the children .
15 What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk .
16 What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk .
17 Overall responsibility for ideology and foreign policy was to pass to José Ramón Balaguer , who had served as Cuba 's ambassador to the former Soviet Union , while responsibility for culture went to politburo member María de los Angeles García .
18 On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President .
19 It may be that this is the first post-modern war , not just because it 's ‘ screened ’ but because the consensus in the West for war appears to be reluctant .
20 CAMPAIGNERS for Scottish devolution received little comfort from Bruce Millan , the European commissioner for regional policy , yesterday in their fight for subsidiarity to apply to Scotland .
21 ‘ Coming home from the match I recognised our school headmaster , Mr Mick Metcalfe — he had also had an afternoon off school to go to the match , ’ adds Mr Thwaites , who is now a head teacher himself , of St Peter 's C.E. Primary School , Saltburn .
22 Letter from R. Paul , headmaster of Currie High School , thanking the Village Association for cheque donated to the tercentenary fund .
23 It is thus far from the case that the search for intelligibility comes to an end with history as such .
24 The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith …
25 Nailed to the wall was a large blackboard with a compartment for chalk attached to it .
26 In December 1989 a UK government report severely criticized senior civil servants in the Falkland Islands for their role in Seamount Ltd , a fishing company whose collapse through mismanagement contributed to losses of up to £30,000,000 of UK taxpayers ' money [ see p. 37001 ] .
27 A further force for polarization appears to be at work .
28 A reward of $1 million remains in effect for information leading to the recovery of the works of art stolen from the Gardner , which , besides the Vermeer and Rembrandt , include Manet 's ‘ Chez Tortoni ’ and five small Degas watercolours and charcoal sketches .
29 An applicant for entry came to be interviewed .
30 Hence , the great divide between music perceived to be ‘ authentic ’ and music held to be ‘ manufactured ’ .
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