Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 2 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 3 | The principal importance of the decision , however , lies in the support that it affords to the proposition that it is not necessary for the duty of the policeman to be found in a specific rule of the common law or statute . |
| 4 | So , politely and reasonably explain to the supplier that it is his/her responsibility , not the manufacturer 's . |
| 5 | If it appears to the court that it is impracticable for any reason to serve a document in any manner prescribed by the rules , the court may , upon an affidavit showing grounds , make an order for substituted service ( N 217 ) giving leave for such steps to be taken as the court directs to bring the document to the notice of the person to be served ( Ord 7 , r 8(1) ) . |
| 6 | This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided . |
| 7 | On granting or transferring a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board shall , if as regards the use of the premises for the provision of the customary main meals it appears to the board that it is only for the customary main meal at midday or only for the customary main meal in the evening that the premises fall within paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restricted hotel licence or paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restaurant licence as set out in Schedule 1 to this Act , insert in the licence a condition that there shall be no permitted hours in the evening , or that there shall be permitted hours in the premises only in the evening , as the case requires . |
| 8 | ( Although the caste system in India has led to the attitude that it is more attractive to be light skinned than dark , this extreme fear of getting black does not exist in India or Pakistan . ) |
| 9 | These verbs are of great interest for the present study because , unlike may , can , shall , will and must , they can shift from the bare to the to infinitive , according to the meaning they express in discourse , a fact which lends confirmation to the hypothesis that it is the meaning of the modals which explains their use with the bare infinitive . |
| 10 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |
| 11 | the holder of a valid certificate in a form supplied by the Secretary of State , containing the information required by it , and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for him to wear a seatbelt ; |
| 12 | This submission was supported by reference to various decisions of the court to the effect that it is a strict test . |
| 13 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 14 | Though the Court of Appeal in Dume [ 1986 ] The Times , 16 October , refused to say whether W v Dolbey was correct , there is now the Lords ' decision in Savage to the effect that it is . |
| 15 | 2.1 Express indications of confidentiality Where the person disclosing information expressly states to the recipient that it is being disclosed in confidence this will usually suffice to impose an obligation of confidence ( assuming the information has the necessary quality of confidence ) . |
| 16 | This can easily lead to the impression that it is a scholarly work of only archival interest . |
| 17 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 18 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 19 | Electronic project construction is probably less troubled by this type of thing than many others , perhaps due to the fact that it is an indoor pursuit which is not dependent on the weather . |
| 20 | It is ‘ only ’ 26 times as luminous as the Sun , and owes its pre-eminence to the fact that it is a mere 8½ light-years away from us . |
| 21 | Individual judges may give more or less weight to the fact that it is the government rather than Parliament which drafts legislation and decides what it shall contain . |
| 22 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 23 | More often than not , a translator will want the reader to accept a given translation as a text in its own right , if possible without being unduly alerted to the fact that it is a translation . |
| 24 | Some observers have attributed the Soviet Union 's apparent willingness to carry a high trade deficit with almost all of its trading partners in Latin America to the fact that it is using trade primarily as a political instrument in order to increase its influence within the region . |
| 25 | He rightly draws attention to the fact that it is not necessarily always one side that sometimes breaches the watchkeeping agreements and regulations . |
| 26 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 27 | For instance , a clause providing for auditors to value shares may state that the auditor is to certify their " fair value " or similar words ( see 3.5 ) ; a minority holding of shares is to be valued without regard to the fact that it is a minority holding ( see 3.6 ) ; surveyors have to assume certain facts and disregard others in establishing a rental ( see 2.3.3 ) . |
| 28 | First , the hon. Gentleman has suggested that the report , which he says has been leaked , is accurate , but I suggest to him and to the House that it is not . |
| 29 | Reasons for the successes and failures of these attempts are discussed in the light of the principle that in order for a treatment to be widely used , it must be inexpensive , freely available and acceptable to the population that it is designed to help . |
| 30 | At first it was attributed to an unknown painter of the Giotto school , but more recent academic opinion is hardening to the opinion that it is by the master himself . |