Example sentences of "to the [noun] of " 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 The constellation of behaviours : pointing , vocalising and checking may be closely tied to the acquistion of language .
4 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 .
5 Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland .
6 Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’
7 Concealed amongst the coats , Frankie listened to the grunts of the animals and the low harsh voices of the men .
8 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 ?
9 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 .
10 ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon .
11 Richard Baxter 's tender devotion to his wife gives the lie to the caricature of the Puritans as being cold , unemotional and joyless .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Consideration of a project 's total costs , its operational life and final product/revenue are essential to the assessment of future cash flows .
20 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 .
21 Similar principles were applied to the assessment of each case .
22 In particular , when it comes to the assessment of efficacy , there is often no single physicochemical parameter that is adequate to predict clinical performance .
23 Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action .
24 Central to recognition of oneself by oneself is a move in work organizations to the assessment of performance on a continuous basis of individuals , groups or businesses against agreed performance criteria .
25 The reason lies in the subjunctive conditionals and the possible worlds held relevant to the assessment of those conditionals as true or false .
26 Accordingly , other provisions of the Act relating to the assessment of benefit , charging orders burdens of proof and enforcement are also applicable .
27 The Department of Education and Science use the most transparent and crude approach to the assessment of deprivation .
28 Editor , — Headlines reports a study noting that the work of police surgeons in inner London is dominated by calls associated with intoxication and arguing that there is a need for a standardised approach to the assessment of a suspect 's fitness to be interviewed .
29 With regard to the assessment of fitness for interview , a key issue is the need for any standardised approach to incorporate a record of the reasons for particular decisions .
30 The multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of referrals to these community teams for the elderly is not associated with misdiagnosis of psychiatric disorder .
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