Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Companies Act 1985 , as amended ( ‘ the Act' ) provides , both for individual company accounts and for group accounts , that if in special circumstances compliance with any of the provisions of the Act as to the matters to be included in a company 's accounts ( or notes thereto ) is inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and profit or loss , the directors shall depart from that provision to the extent necessary to give a true and fair view . |
| 2 | And if , in special circumstances , compliance with a provision of the Schedules would be inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view the directors must depart from that provision to the extent necessary , giving , in a note to the accounts , particulars of the departure and the reasons for , and effect of , it . |
| 3 | And I do n't apologise to the people of that I voted with Councillor to take a hundred administration jobs out of education and direct that money to the provision of education in the schools cos that that is what running the education department is about . |
| 4 | In procedural terms , therefore , the life sentence involves a transfer of function : normally it is the judge who determines the sentence ( or at least its upper limit , since earlier release on parole may be possible ) , whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive , who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge . |
| 5 | Governments , on one view , can not afford to leave that decision to the market because the stockmarket tends to reward those companies that abandon military R&D . |
| 6 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 7 | A further suggestion is that exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the target stimulus will result not only in extinction of context-stimulus associations but may also serve to attenuate the rate with which associations are forgotten . |
| 8 | While there was little resistance to the purchase or expropriation of their land for cash crops , Fijian peasants refused to work the plantations . |
| 9 | He also pays 25 percent of that income to the Treasury in lieu of tax . |
| 10 | Of those sports where payment was permitted , there was little concession to the creation of a free market . |
| 11 | ‘ Why did you write that tailpiece to the article , by the way ? |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Fees determined by the Secretary of State under subsection ( 1 ) above shall , on being paid by any applicant to the board , be paid over by the clerk of that board to the council which defray the expenses of that board . |
| 13 | Wild sows appear to be aware of this danger , and often hesitate before lowering each foot to the group . |
| 14 | Physicians performing abortions were obliged to file detailed reports on each case to the state health department . |
| 15 | There is a large body of case law concerned with the meaning of particular expressions in particular contexts , but the drafter should bear in mind the cautionary words of Lord Esher MR : No general rule exists for the computation of time , either under the Bankruptcy Act or any other statute , or , indeed , where time is mentioned in a contract , and the rational mode of computation of time is to have regard in each case to the purpose for which the computation is to be made ( Re North , ex parte Hasluck [ 1895 ] 2 QB 264 ) . |
| 16 | First , under section 6 , when granting a warrant , the Home Secretary must make arrangements for the purpose of securing that : ( a ) the extent to which the material is disclosed ; ( b ) the number of persons to whom the material is disclosed ; ( c ) the extent to which the material is copied ; and ( d ) the number of copies made of any material is limited in each case to the minimum that is necessary . |
| 17 | This formulation enabled Althusser to theorize a decentred totality which allowed the possibility of differences without reducing each instance to the operation of an essence or a single principle , such as the dialectic . |
| 18 | They never paid homage specifically for the duchy of Aquitaine ( in particular , for that part to the south of the Garonne ) , and this partly explains how their south-western French possessions were able to survive Capetian attacks . |
| 19 | In Birmingham the planned area — all that part to the west of Snow Hill station today — was formerly the New Hall estate of the Colmore family . |
| 20 | The bone is very thin at this point , so that damage to the bone , and subsequent loss of the incisor , occurs to some degree in all of the predator assemblages ( Fig. 3.14 F , G-H ) . |
| 21 | Although it was originally intended that entitlement to the allowance would cease at 65 , the upper age limit for payment has been extended twice , most recently by the 1989 Social Security Act , when it was changed from 75 to 80 . |
| 22 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 23 | Available for hire in a choice of sizes , a core drill will take out a ‘ plug ’ of masonry with little damage to the wall . |
| 24 | Firstly are those with little damage to the skull , where the ratio of isolated to associated maxillae is less that 0.5 ( column 5 ) or the percentage of maxillae in skulls ( per cent completeness ) is more then 70 per cent ( column 4 ) . |
| 25 | Civilians at night , threatening little damage to the fabric of society , might be taken aback at being suddenly confronted with the majesty of the state in the form of a bored constable . |
| 26 | To do little damage to the economy is , for a chancellor , a huge achievement . |
| 27 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 28 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 29 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 30 | Another clause , restricting the sellers ' liability for a consequential loss and limiting that liability to the amount of the contract price was held to pass the reasonableness test . |