Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 More female patients had rheumatoid arthritis , but in the remaining three conditions , the proportion of men was greater , reaffirming that men appear to be more likely than women to have ischaemic ulcers .
2 Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost .
3 The latter has no interest in sorting material beyond seeing that items addressed to you arrive at their right destination .
4 Ideas have to begin somewhere , a point which tends to be overlooked by those who seize on leaked internal government memoranda floating a proposal at a formative stage of the idea and criticize both the content of the proposal and the secrecy which surrounds it , without reflecting that ideas have to be shaped by discussion and given preliminary approval as worthy of examination before they can go out under the imprimatur of the organizing body .
5 With nerves jangling , palms sweating and nails bitten to the bone , the same unthinkable notion was in the minds of millions — surely the US PGA Championship is not going to be won by someone called …
6 Pre-tax profits fell 20pc to £152.7m from £190.2m , a strong result considering that provisions soared to £105m from £44m last year .
7 If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years .
8 On July 10 China expressed " reservations " over the arms communiqué , saying that passages relating to arms transfers and disarmament were " not well balanced " .
9 He is accused of conspiring with Mohammed Haque , a BCCI manager , to mislead the bank 's auditor Price Waterhouse in 1984–85 with documents alleging that companies connected to him owed the bank £2.2m .
10 On September 21 , 1945 , he wrote to the defendants saying that rent must be paid at the full rate and claiming that arrears amounting to £7,916 were due .
11 The management of schools is changing and decisions have to be made in the context of a financial framework .
12 If the trustees make a payment to a beneficiary as an income distribution and the trustees submit trust returns supported by the relevant income tax certificates which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries and the trustees pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust credit can be obtained for income tax suffered by the trustees .
13 This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries .
14 A similar concession will operate where the payment made by the discretionary trustees is not within TA 1988 s.687(2) , but constitutes income arising from a foreign possession ( eg where non-resident trustees exercise their discretion outside the UK ) provided the trustees ( a ) submit trust returns , supported by the relevant income tax certificates , which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries ; and ( b ) pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust in accordance with TA 1988 s.686 .
15 The Law Society , recognising that savings have to be found , has put together a package of proposals which would give the looked-for savings but would not have the damaging effects of the Government 's plans .
16 Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake .
17 Marcovic on May 8 issued a statement to the Federal Executive Council asserting that conditions had to be created to allow the army to carry out its constitutional and legal function of defending frontiers and halting inter-ethnic clashes .
18 The music ( marshalled by Ian Broudie ) also has a perverse appeal , flutes whistling and horns parping to the synthetic groove .
19 Indeed , the Treasury worked skilfully to maintain its separateness by ensuring that CEPS worked to the financial year ( April to April ) whilst the Economic Section prepared its Survey on a calendar year basis .
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