Example sentences of "to be exempt " in BNC.

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1 Sufferers from Alzheimer 's disease were to be exempt from the tax — a concession which opposition parties had fought for .
2 It also required that industrial action be supported by union members in a pre-strike ballot if the union was to be exempt from civil action for damages arising from the dispute .
3 In 1292 , for example , the king ordered an inquiry to be made in the forest of Essex by the foresters , verderers and regarders of the three regards of Colchester , Ongar and Chelmsford , together with a jury of thirty-six knights and others , into a complaint by the Abbess of Barking that the foresters had interfered in her woods , which she claimed to be exempt from the regard and from the jurisdiction of the king 's Forest officers .
4 The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law .
5 And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation .
6 Owners of historic houses are to be exempt from the revaluation for tax purposes included in measures covering commercial property .
7 But at the time , as one American policy was ending and another beginning , Vietnam seemed to be exempt from similar considerations .
8 Thus a note might reach the union committee asking for exemption from the quarterly meeting ( to avoid a fine ) such as the one from Mrs K. who in 1922 said " I wish to be exempt from Society meetings as I have to attend to my children in the evenings " .
9 To be exempt from taxation the trust must meet Inland Revenue conditions relating to contributions and benefit entitlement .
10 It would be welcome to hear that all students are to be exempt .
11 Will the Minister explain why , if competitive tendering is to be encouraged as a means of securing better value for money , the national health service trusts are to be exempt from the process ?
12 They do not want a levy : they want everyone to be exempt .
13 After sub-paragraph ( 1 ) of paragraph 6A of Schedule 1A to the 1987 Act ( personal community charge : exemption ) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph — ’ ( 1A ) If such a person as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 1 ) above ceases to undertake such a course of education on or after 30th April 1992 , he shall continue to be exempt until the start of the earlier of the following days —
14 Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure .
15 As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years .
16 A contract of supply may state expressly that the supplier is to be exempt from performance of some terms of the contract of supply , or that liability may be restricted in some way or other .
17 In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this .
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