Example sentences of "[conj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can learn to paint at the foot of Cezanne 's Mont Sainte-Victoire , to cook in Umbria , to ride in the Rockies , meditate in Andalucia , or to skin-dive in the Caribbean . |
| 2 | Section 4(1) ( f ) provides : ( f ) that the defect ( i ) constituted a defect in a product ( " the subsequent product " ) in which the product in question had been comprised ; and ( ii ) was wholly attributable to the design of the subsequent product or to compliance by the producer of the product in question with instructions given by the producer of the subsequent product . |
| 3 | Any spare capital , regulators have insisted , must be committed first to strengthening balance sheets weakened by unwise lending , or to takeovers of the rump of the thrift industry . |
| 4 | Amnesty also produced evidence linking the " death squads " to the security forces or to members of the UNP . |
| 5 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 6 | These are words whose meaning can only be discovered by referring to other words or to elements of the context which are clear to both sender and receiver . |
| 7 | Completeness in this context means having most of both proximal and distal ends together with the shaft ; breakage at the epiphyses is not counted , and damage to the greater trochanter of the femur or to part of the distal articulation of the humerus does not disqualify bones from being classified as complete . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) ( a ) A licensing board shall refuse an application of the type described in subsection ( 2 ) below if it finds that one or more of the following grounds for refusal , being competent grounds , applies to it ( in ) that the applicant , or the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the applicant will manage the premises or , in the case of an application to which section 11 of this Act applies , the applicant or the employee or agent named in the application is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence ; ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their location , their character and condition , the nature and extent of the proposed use of the premises , and the persons likely to resort to the premises ; ( c ) that the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor is likely to cause undue public nuisance , or a threat to public order and safety ; ( d ) that , having regard to the facilities of the same or similar kind already available in the locality , or to facilities of the same or similar kind , in respect of which the provisional grant of a new licence is in force , which are to be provided in the locality , the grant of an application would result in the Over-provision of such facilities ; and otherwise shall grant the application . |
| 9 | Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree . |
| 10 | First , and most important in relation to the personal social services , is caring within the family — services given without financial reward to other members of the household , including children , or to relations outside the household . |
| 11 | The B antibodies 16818–2 and BRIC 86 were inhibited by oligosaccharides involving a fucose attached to Β galactose , but not to linear disaccharides or to trisaccharides without the attached fucose . |
| 12 | For example , giving Antabuse to a sufferer from Alcoholism , Methadone or Naltrexone to a sufferer from Heroin addiction , anti-depressants or tranquillisers to sufferers from eating disorders or to sufferers from the family disease or other addictions or giving behaviour therapy or aversion therapy or electro-convulsive therapy to anyone suffering from addictive disease is not only most probably inappropriate but cruel as well . |
| 13 | Salt occurs naturally in many foods and is added to even quite basic foods such as bread , so there is no need to add extra salt in cooking , or to food at the table . |
| 14 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 15 | ‘ If the parties have agreed the basis of taxation it would , I think , be an improper exercise of the court 's discretion to direct the taxation on some other basis , unless satisfied that there had been some conduct on the part of the mortgagee disentitling him to costs or to costs on the agreed basis . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt word has gone round by now that I could n't get through to him or to Mona on the telephone . |
| 17 | Nor did Moscow raise the principles of non-alignment when it transferred arms on a large scale to radical ‘ non-aligned ’ African states in the 1970s or to Afghanistan in the 1980s . |
| 18 | Usually , this is due to vagueness or to insensitivity to the difficulties which some of the concepts discussed might cause for uninitiated readers . |
| 19 | These include misspellings and mis-recognitions either due to badly written words or to idiosyncrasies of the pattern recogniser . |
| 20 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 21 | Equally , parents have no right to insist on the provision of single-sex schooling , nor to payment by the local authority of fees for educating the child in a single-sex school in the private sector . |
| 22 | George Stephen was not so poor an historian as to refuse credit to other parliamentarians such as Lushington , Brougham and Denman who could not be accounted Claphamites , nor to nonconformity in the country , nor to Emmanuel Cooper the Quaker for his work in the Agency nor Cropper and Sturge for their financial support of the Agency . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 25 | Accordingly , if anomalies appear in the results , this is attributed to defects in the experiment rather than to wilfulness on the part of the animals under investigation . |
| 26 | This is largely due to the increase in the numbers of those over pension age during this period , rather than to changes in the propensity to live separate lives . |
| 27 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 28 | In Stages IX and X more of Boyd 's ( NI LP ) and Ferguson 's ( Alliance ) votes which were transferable went to UPNI than to SDLP in the proportion of approximately 2 to 1 . |
| 29 | ‘ A number of changes have been made to reduce practices that cause irritating stoppages rather than to speed up the game . |
| 30 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |