Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the wide range of professional activities of its membership , the Institute relies on members and their firms to decide the relevance and usefulness of any CPE programme to their own circumstances . |
| 2 | This demand was supported by the United States government , while the Netherlands government said that it was stopping its annual US$120,000,000 aid payment to its former colony . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that the recipient does not have to pay any tax on the dividends received and , in addition , may pay such franked investment income to its own shareholders without paying ACT ( such shareholders will nevertheless receive the dividends with the usual basic rate tax credit ) . |
| 4 | This could well form a separate main activity , since it encompasses goal-directed research ( preparation of lectures , tours and exhibitions ; enquiry answering ) , research involved with the supervision and teaching of information management , bibliography and research methodology to our own students , M.Sc. |
| 5 | For example , if labour is in short supply this constraint could be relieved by the firm offering overtime to its present workforce ; if the internal opportunity cost of labour is £5 the firm could offer an overtime premium up to this amount and by doing so generate a positive contribution . |
| 6 | He then proceeded to read the riot act to his headstrong brother . |
| 7 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 8 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 9 | In July , more than 100 stars staged a London Palladium tribute to her 77-year career . |
| 10 | They sent a demo tape of the planned début single to their local branch of the independent Cartel network , Red Rhino in York . |
| 11 | What is the nearest ECM centre to your own country ? |
| 12 | McHale issued a rallying call to his beleaguered troops : ‘ We still want credibility . |
| 13 | You should first fill in an entry form to your local scheme — forms are available from your line manager . |
| 14 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 15 | In the 15th minute came a carbon copy to her first goal as Jackie McWilliams increased Randalstown 's lead . |
| 16 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 17 | It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 . |
| 18 | His proudest achievement has been the restoration , with other villagers , of the run-down village green to its former glory as focal point of the community . |
| 19 | Contrasting views of the peasantry point to their radical participation in the Mexican and Cuban revolutions , peasant movements such as that of La Convencíon in Peru and the high levels of political consciousness of some sectors of the Chilean peasantry . |
| 20 | Since it is highly improbable that the current , by no means unpromising , experimental lineout variations will be jettisoned by the IRFB before the tour , there was an obvious argument for taking Martin Johnston as a front jumper and shunting Martin Bayfield back to his preferred station in the middle . |
| 21 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 22 | ANTHONY Cottrell , son of Devon trainer Gerald Cottrell , made a dream start to his own training career when Bluechipenterprise scored at Exeter . |
| 23 | After discussing colour and product preferences , the consultant applies the make-up step-by-step to her own face and the customer copies , so that she learns how to use the products herself and can instantly see if she likes them or not . |
| 24 | He had spent the afternoon teaching Sun Tzu to his senior officers : the final chapter on the employment of secret agents . |
| 25 | He wore a cap of rabbit skin and a dirty moleskin jerkin to which small bells had been sewn . |
| 26 | The starting points for the revision of the existing Conventions of 1905 and 1954 were a dissatisfaction with the indirect consular channel , as being inappropriate in current conditions , and a concern that the non-obligatory nature of the channels provided for in the existing text enabled some countries to make use of the system of notification au parquet to which increasing exception was taken . |
| 27 | A new HS&E Policy and Management System has been developed and will be launched shortly at a number of Wood Group companies with the aim that all companies will adapt the Group Policy and Management System to their own needs by the end of the year . |
| 28 | Last year the UN General Assembly called on the junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and transfer power to her National League for Democracy . |
| 29 | To accommodate the ongoing growth , we have now added a highly advanced environmentally controlled pressure sensor calibration laboratory to our existing facilities . |
| 30 | Nylon makes a 100% recovery to its original length but does so rather slowly . |