Example sentences of "[noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 2 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 3 | Even in the sixties , the words ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ had led the courts from manners to morals . |
| 4 | Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them . |
| 5 | Niki loses six seconds to the sort of ill manners to which even the greatest drivers are subject . |
| 6 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 7 | Richard does n't have the manners to be a staff officer . |
| 8 | ‘ Good morning , McAllister , ’ he said ; his manners to all those society considered his inferiors were always punctilious . |
| 9 | His manners to her had always been impeccable , which made what he was shortly to do all the more shocking . |
| 10 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 11 | Or at least having the decency and good manners to at least let me know what you 'd done ! |
| 12 | The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ . |
| 13 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 14 | However , there are a number of risks to be considered by even the most competent pilot , and these are outside the pilot 's control once the cloud climb has been started . |
| 15 | On the one hand we know that drinking , smoking , driving and overwork involve risks to our health , and we apparently accept them . |
| 16 | Mr Kelman believes that the net result of the Law Commission proposal will be to increase the risks to companies because hackers who often tell their ‘ victims ’ about their insecure systems will be afraid to do so . |
| 17 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 18 | He admitted the strategy posed risks to his party , but said : ‘ I 've got to be prepared , to continue to be prepared , to take risky positions to keep in the game . ’ |
| 19 | Such common risks to the interests and values they all share still give the allies plenty to fret about collectively . |
| 20 | The risks to investors in some deals turn out , with hindsight , to have been badly understated which , in turn , helped to create crazily high prices . |
| 21 | Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred . |
| 22 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 23 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 24 | Moreover , despite Elizabeth 's personal danger during the Seymour affair , she added to the risks to herself by strenuously protecting her governess , Catherine Ashley ; loyalty to those who had given loyalty was the mark of the true ruler . |
| 25 | Last week , a conference of the Society for Experimental Biology at Lancaster University heard new information about the possible risks to crops from increased UVB radiation levels . |
| 26 | The COSHH regulations are designed to protect workers ' health by requiring substances in the workplace to be identified and the potential risks to health associated with the use of those substances to be assessed . |
| 27 | Risks to health and the environment can be minimised and it is also important to produce the energy cleanly . |
| 28 | But we still face grave risks to our security . |
| 29 | Even so , many people are prepared to take the risks to their health , and extend these to their child . |
| 30 | They are not foolproof ; they carry additional risks to the health of the child ; and are capable of detecting only certain types of handicap , at present mainly chromosomal disorders and malformations of the central nervous system which give rise to spina bifida ( now largely a physical rather than mental handicap ) and hydrocephalus . |