Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 2 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 3 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 4 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 5 | Even so , many people are prepared to take the risks to their health , and extend these to their child . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety at Work ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1978 requires the University to ensure , as far as is reasonably practicable , that students are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 7 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 8 | * Assess risks to their employees and others who may be affected |
| 9 | Pregnant women should also be aware of the risks to their babies . |
| 10 | He admitted the strategy posed risks to his party , but said : ‘ I 've got to be prepared , to continue to be prepared , to take risky positions to keep in the game . ’ |
| 11 | The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated . |
| 12 | And it might go away if he did n't listen keenly , feed it perhaps with the energy of his life , stoke it up with risks to his health and even to his sanity . |
| 13 | Arthur Koestler has commented , … every original thinker who relies , as he must , on his unconscious hunches , incurs much greater risks to his career and sanity than his more pedestrian colleagues . |
| 14 | NETWORK SECURITY not only highlights the risks to your system and offers live demonstrations of control systems on the market , but also discusses a cost effective security strategy . |
| 15 | However there are some risks to your health from rimming from other types of infection , e.g. hepatitis , salmonella , and some parasites . |
| 16 | On the one hand we know that drinking , smoking , driving and overwork involve risks to our health , and we apparently accept them . |
| 17 | But we still face grave risks to our security . |
| 18 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 19 | DEC would also like Encore to buy some Alpha AXP systems and offer them in place of its real-time 91 and 93 systems , as well as building successors to its parallel Infinity 90 machines out of Alpha microprocessors . |
| 20 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 21 | They may attribute unattractive and negatively valued characteristics to their enemies or neighbours , but most certainly not to themselves . |
| 22 | So those best fitted to their surroundings will be selected and be able to transmit their characteristics to their offspring . |
| 23 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 24 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 25 | Most hurtful and unfair of all , though , he had been the butt of jokes about his appearance for as long as he could remember — everything from his ears to his hairline . |
| 26 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 27 | The creator of the ‘ miracle ’ at Sabina Park , 1989–90 , Graham Gooch has four centuries to his name against West Indies . |
| 28 | His 100th Test would be the opening match of the series in Calcutta , and he also left England with 99 first-class centuries to his name . |
| 29 | The frog had brought some other young frogs to its spot among the leaves at the edge of the world of the flower . |
| 30 | It was not only in Communist Romania that the leaders of the Party quickly adapted their lifestyles to their capacity to exploit the state . |