Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiet , controlled voice filled her with relief and she scrambled out on to the jig to join David . |
| 2 | Trying not to show that she was completely at a loss , Sophie made a careful examination , then , taking out her stethoscope , she gestured to the herdsman to hold the calf steady while she listened to her patient 's lungs . |
| 3 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 4 | Thus , an assessor has to bring to the assessment process a matrix of skills , knowledge , and experience in order to translate information into understanding . |
| 5 | For reasons which will appear it is necessary first to refer to the legislation affecting the taxation of benefits in kind before 1975 . |
| 6 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 7 | Amendment has now been made to the legislation to ensure that the time for raising and answering enquiries is calculated correctly . |
| 8 | Q What will happen to any clergy who decide to leave the Church because of their opposition to the legislation permitting women to be ordained as priests ? |
| 9 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 10 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 11 | Still keeping to the ridge descend a little and then curve around west to reach Trum y Ddysgl and go south-west on grass and descend again to reach the summit of Mynydd Tal-y-mignedd . |
| 12 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive . |
| 14 | These sequences are labelled U , P1 to P5 and obvious homologies to the motif found in the 5' portion of the HSV-1 Vmw175 binding consensus are underlined , the arrow indicating a motif in the opposite orientation on the non-coding strand . |
| 15 | He would have to go very close indeed to the hoarding to read the word ‘ Taunton ’ between ‘ now ! ’ and ‘ Times ’ . |
| 16 | ( See generally as to the privilege attaching to medical reports : Worrall v Rich [ 1955 ] 1 QB 296 , and Causton v Mann Egerton ( Johnsons ) Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 162 . ) |
| 17 | Other viewpoints may be defined which occupy an intermediate location between these two , and there are also schools of thought which are not readily assimilable to the dimension suggested , for example those which put emphasis on a radical definition of ‘ children 's rights ’ . |
| 18 | Billed as ‘ the silliest tour we 've done … very pantomime ’ , it 's one of the few winter tours selling well in a chilly economic climate — testimony again to the loyalty afforded the duo by their UK following . |
| 19 | To travel along each road you have to know the correct password which is the answer to the calculation shown on the circle you are leaving . |
| 20 | For location work it is very helpful to the photographer to visit the site beforehand . |
| 21 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 22 | Other times she would go down to the galley to prepare a meal , which might have taken her mind off the water but rarely did . |
| 23 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 24 | That the Board be authorised to exercise the power contained in Article 134 of the Articles of Association so that , to the extent and manner determined by the Board , the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company be permitted to elect to receive ordinary shares , credited as fully paid , instead of cash in respect of all or part of any interim or the final dividend relating to the year ending on 31 December 1993 , such authority to expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994 . |
| 25 | Sitting close to the blackboard seems like an old-fashioned solution , but remains useful for some pupils . |
| 26 | No that 's what I say and , and I 've written to the insurer to the insurer to tell , ask them what is the situation and we 're still waiting an answer . |
| 27 | The principle advantage to the insurer conferred by Court proceedings is that ultimately it provides a final date by which the dilatory pursuer and his advisers have to make up their minds . |
| 28 | First , it is pointed out that a most preferred sexual partner is not necessarily a spouse ( e.g. Solomon , 1978 ) ; however , it is difficult to see how this perfectly valid point is relevant to the evidence given above . |
| 29 | TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury . |
| 30 | The court said that the conclusion the arbitrator had come to could only have been reached by in effect giving evidence to himself in flat contradiction to the evidence given by the applicants ' expert witness , and the arbitrator was guilty of misconduct in failing to observe the rules of natural justice . |