Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although conceding , in a footnote , that one may use extrabiblical material to ‘ illuminate scripture ’ , her basic stance is to grant to the text the status of a self-contained entity . |
| 2 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 3 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 4 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 5 | Yet the World Bank has continued to press this issue , at one stage moving the permanent secretary in the president 's office to angrily rebuke the young leader of the Bank 's team , and to the president himself being moved to recount to the team the Biblical story of the seven fat and seven lean years . |
| 6 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 7 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 8 | The Bosnians will have to look to the lesson the Palestinians have learnt to their cost . |
| 9 | They began to apply to the revolution the techniques and approaches , the concern with social history and with quantitative methods , already being widely applied in less sensitive fields . |
| 10 | Their research is published by Approach ( Association to Protect All Children ) , which wants to extend to the home the ban in schools on physical punishment . |
| 11 | Three out of four UK chemical firms surveyed by Friends of the Earth failed to support proposals to extend to the UK the level of openness on toxic emissions required in the US . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 13 | We could then allow local communities to decide more of their own priorities and allow councils to justify to the electorate the cost of the various policies that they put into practice . |
| 14 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 15 | It can also help to emphasize to the counsellees the value and significance of their lives , and the part they have played in the history of their times . |
| 16 | The purpose of it , I guess , was to reduce to the minimum the need for our British soldiers to use force with the Yugoslavians . |
| 17 | 5.13.2 If called upon to do so to furnish to the Landlord the Surveyor or any person acting as the third party determining the rent in default of agreement between the parties under any provisions for rent review contained in this Lease such information as may [ reasonably ] be requested in writing in relation to any pending or intended step under the 1954 Act or the implementation of any provisions for rent review This seems quite innocuous but an unreasonable landlord could become a nuisance and apart from ensuring that " reasonably " is included , the tenant should also begin each subclause as follows : If called upon to do so ( but not more frequently than may be reasonable ) |
| 18 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 19 | Parliament or , more specifically , the House of Commons , has been jealous to maintain exclusive control over its own affairs , as determined by the House itself , and has thus been reluctant to concede to the courts the jurisdiction claimed by them above . |
| 20 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 21 | The Ukrainian Supreme Soviet voted on Feb. 12 to restore to the Crimea the status of an autonomous Soviet socialist republic ( ASSR ) , within the Ukraine . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) to restore to the community the increase in value of land arising from its efforts . |
| 23 | In order ‘ to restore to the community the increase in value of land arising from its efforts ’ , it was proposed that ‘ the ultimate basis on which the community will buy all land will be current use value ’ . |
| 24 | He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously . |
| 25 | I think you need to go to the toilet the way you 're jiggling around . |
| 26 | In May eighty three and again in May eighty seven Margaret Thatcher chose to go to the country the month after those elections . |
| 27 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 28 | I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has given me the opportunity to report to the House the latest figures for inward investment . |
| 29 | Most local authorities have yet to set their budgets but I am glad to report to the house the press reports indicate a far more modest level of increase . |
| 30 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |