Example sentences of "to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 3 | In 1203–4 , 1205 and 1242 these concessions were rewarded by the financial and military support given to the Plantagenets by Bordeaux and other towns against both Castilian and French attacks on the duchy . |
| 4 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 5 | The constellation of behaviours : pointing , vocalising and checking may be closely tied to the acquistion of language . |
| 6 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 7 | The frentic merger activity among the nation 's accountants ( or not , as the case may be ) has spread to the wilds of Yorkshire where the tiny firm of Rawlinsons is linking with the equally tiny Milne Booth . |
| 8 | Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland . |
| 9 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 10 | Concealed amongst the coats , Frankie listened to the grunts of the animals and the low harsh voices of the men . |
| 11 | As the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair ( 10–20 June ) opens to the fanfare of 500 years of American Patronage , The Art Newspaper 's American in London asks leading dealers , do themes really help fairs to sell ? |
| 12 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 13 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 14 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 15 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 16 | True , poverty often dwells in hidden alleys close to the palaces of the rich ; but , in general , a separate territory has been assigned to it , where , removed from the sight of the happier classes , it may struggle along as it can . |
| 17 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 18 | Richard Baxter 's tender devotion to his wife gives the lie to the caricature of the Puritans as being cold , unemotional and joyless . |
| 19 | However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) . |
| 20 | Through its involvement in astrology it could also contribute to the governance of the Church , proving the truth of Christianity , forecasting the future , and predicting the course of disease . |
| 21 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 22 | The married priest might be more obvious to the archdeacon on his visitation or inspection and to the rural deans in charge of the groups of parishes ; the unmarried concubinist could well escape justice . |
| 23 | There was the trust deed of the church school , St Benet 's , founded in 1860 and , of more recent date , a copy of a well-phrased vituperative complaint to the Archdeacon from the People 's Warden about Marr 's digging up the Church for the central heating . |
| 24 | If the epitomist added the two letters to his summary of the history of Jason , his epitome must be dated after 124 B.C. The only possible alternative is the assumption that a later interpolator added the two letters to the epitome of Jason . |
| 25 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 26 | The rate is the net amount required by the local authority to meet the estimated expenditure and is levied on the occupiers of all properties in the valuation list according to the assessment of each property . |
| 27 | With the growth of international lending in both domestic and foreign currencies most banks have increased their staff numbers and resources devoted to the assessment of country risk , although it has to be recognised that such a subject can never be reduced to an exact science . |
| 28 | Consideration of a project 's total costs , its operational life and final product/revenue are essential to the assessment of future cash flows . |
| 29 | But if SEAC can be persuaded to give parity of esteem to the assessment of cross-curricular themes within subjects , and better still , to revise syllabuses when an overall plan does eventually emerge , much will have been achieved — in fact , nothing less than the coherence and purpose educators seek . |
| 30 | Similar principles were applied to the assessment of each case . |