Example sentences of "to the [adj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle long continued to be agreed that Christian aid to the destitute should not discriminate in favour of church members , but had no criterion other than need . |
| 2 | The details of the interaction of GH5 binding to the nucleosome will become clear only with more data . |
| 3 | Ventilation to the inner can be achieved by opening doors . |
| 4 | A clause similar to the following should be included : In order for our investors to proceed with their due diligence , we would ask for your consent to the following : ( a ) that senior management within the [ Group ] can be made aware of the proposed management buy-out and that we can be allowed to provide information to the investors and their advisers , subject to satisfactory letters of confidentiality on both sides ; ( b ) that the investor can instruct [ investigating accountants ] to commence work on producing an accountant 's report on the [ Group ] ; ( c ) that [ investigating accountants ] can contact [ existing auditors ] to obtain historical financial information in respect of the [ Group ] and shall be entitled to have access to the existing auditors ' working papers ; ( d ) that our advisers can contact you in order to progress this transaction . |
| 5 | A clause similar to the following can be included to achieve this : ( a ) The parties agree to procure that the amount(s) of any payment(s) ( net of corporation tax to the extent that this is not franked by the payment of advance corporation tax payable on the distribution to be made pursuant to this clause ( a ) ) received by the Company pursuant to any claim(s) made under the keyman insurance effected by the Company pursuant to clause … shall as soon as practicable following receipt of such amount(s) by the Company be distributed to the Investor by way of dividend net of any advance corporation tax payable . |
| 6 | Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available . |
| 7 | They felt that the help to the poor would benefit the rich — er … sorry ? — and that the Budget had n't done nearly enough for them . |
| 8 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 9 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 10 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 11 | The value of cash benefits to the poor should not be minimised or dismissed , but it does not mean that relative deprivation is removed . |
| 12 | Other qualifications deemed by the Course Committee to be equivalent to the above may be accepted . |
| 13 | Most two-syllable verbs that seem to be exceptions to the above might be interpreted as being morphologically complex ( e.g. ‘ permit ’ = ‘ per ’ + ‘ mit ’ ) , or we could simply list all such verbs as exceptions . |
| 14 | Exceptions to the above will be made where the opportunity has been obtained by KPMG from another intermediary , in which case his scale of charges will be substituted and KPMG 's interest , if any , in such a charge will be notified to the acquiror . |
| 15 | A similar effect to the above will be experienced if depositors in foreign currencies wish to switch their deposits into sterling in the UK — in response , say , to higher interest rates in the UK . |
| 16 | If family allowances were available to the man in work , his advantageous economic position in relation to the unemployed would be better secured . |
| 17 | Colleagues , the types of work that will be offered in an ac to the unemployed will be community work clearing rubbish from sites , cleaning public buildings and open spaces . |
| 18 | I wonder if you could give me some idea what a leaflet similar to the attached would cost to produce , i.e. one spot colour throughout and full colour cover , say , 10,000 copies ? |
| 19 | Loss of opportunity to respond to the unexpected can be dealt with only by striving to eliminate it . |
| 20 | But in other instances the rejection of anything new and the fixed-minded adherence to the old can lock science into a state of long-term moribundity . |
| 21 | A reading which is faithful to the writerly will avoid the closure of static structures ; reading a text in Barthesian terms does not lead to the construction of ‘ a Model ’ or a ‘ legal structure of norms or infractions ’ , a narrative or poetic law , but opens ‘ a perspective ( of fragments , of voices from other texts , other codes ) , whose vanishing point is nonetheless ceaselessly pushed back , mysteriously opened ’ ( p. 12 ) . |
| 22 | Jane Austen , whose attitude to the Gothic will shortly be discussed , would certainly have thought Disraeli 's proposal ludicrous as a means of restoring authority to great houses ; but the notion has its actual antecedents in certain aspects of eighteenth-century Gothic taste . |
| 23 | Even talking to the dead can pall . |
| 24 | And while ‘ rain ’ to the Orcadian might signify a daily fact of nature to be tolerated or combatted , to the drought-ridden of Ethiopia or Somalia ‘ rain ’ would be a life-giver , a cause for joyous celebration . |