Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest paid under a mortgage is allowable for tax relief if at the time the interest is paid : ( i ) the loan was taken out to purchase property in the UK ; and ( ii ) the person claiming the relief owed an interest in the property and uses it " wholly or to a substantial extent " as his or her only or main residence ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , ss354 and 355 as amended by Finance Act 1988 , s44(1) ) . |
| 2 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 3 | Er , er my understanding to , to er about five minutes ago was that you were saying we have not failed to perform our legal obligations under clause nine , because clause nine er is either wholly or to be extent that it relates to the underwriting which we disapprove partially invalid out of being part of the erm , the anti competitive of erm the argument you 're pursuing . |
| 4 | A partner who retires remains liable for debts and obligations incurred whilst he was a partner , unless an agreement exists ( either expressly or to be implied from a course of dealing ) to release him . |
| 5 | The resultant pseudo-scientific arguments will then concern themselves with the meaningless question as to whether the fauna of the intervening strata pertain more to the stage below or to the stage above . |
| 6 | In speaking , either personally or to quite large groups , he spoke with an extraordinary simplicity and directness of manner . |
| 7 | The Vallée de la Marne system is restricted to the Pinot Meunier vine only or to vineyards of 89% échelle or lower . |
| 8 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 9 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
| 10 | But if it rises suddenly or to a high level , he will need to consider whether you are developing high blood pressure problems or pre-eclampsia . |
| 11 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 12 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |
| 13 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 14 | Yet studies of police discretion also emphasize how its operation is structured , so that to a great extent its use becomes standardized , although individual whim can not be ignored entirely . |
| 15 | % postcrania /crania : postcrania include 10 elements , two each of femora , tibiae , humeri , radii and ulnae ; crania include 16 elements , two each of mandibles and maxillae and 12 molars ; the expected ratio is therefore 10:16 , so that to correct for this departure from I the actual postcranial values from the fossil samples are multiplied by 16 and the cranial values by 10 , and these corrected values are shown here . |
| 16 | ‘ Matter is poured into our universe from some other and entirely extraneous spatial dimension so that to a denizen of our universe they appear as points at which matter is continually created . |
| 17 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 18 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 19 | In Britain there was a significant reduction in the number of employees eligible for employment protection , so that to be within the terms of the Employment Protection Act , they had to be working for two years instead of , as previously , six months . |
| 20 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 21 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 22 | There was something pejorative about the word , so that to some atonal music meant ‘ non-music ’ , or at least something ugly and unpleasant . |
| 23 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 24 | Their bark , if bark it was , possessed a highly reflective surface , so that to move forward was to be accompanied by a multitudinous army of distortions of oneself . |
| 25 | Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the direct e.m.f. is usually very large compared with the input potential difference ( ; 0.6 V for a silicon transistor ) so that to a fair approximation . |
| 27 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 28 | Only that to the " bottom left " carries a lateral , swastika meander . |
| 29 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 30 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |