Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 2 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 3 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
| 4 | The shift toward formal politics was qualitatively novel , and presented to the working class a potentially valuable opportunity of engaging in new forms of hegemonic struggle to remodel society . |
| 5 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 6 | If pin 9 is left open circuit , the display will be in dot mode , and if pin 9 is connected to the positive rail a bar mode display is produced . |
| 7 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 8 | American diplomats were so appalled by Mr Zappala 's nomination that they leaked to the Spanish press a copy of the misnamed competence certificate , which is sent to the Senate , which has the final say on ambassadorial posts . |
| 9 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
| 10 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 11 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |
| 12 | Following the imaginative suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) , in recognition of Nepal 's return to democracy we are presenting to the Nepalese Parliament a throne for its Speaker . |
| 13 | I extend to the hon. Gentleman an open invitation to join me on any subsequent occasion . |
| 14 | These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing . |
| 15 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 16 | Where a bankruptcy order has been made other than on the debtor 's petition , the bankrupt must submit to the official receiver a statement of his affairs within twenty-one days of the bankruptcy order or within such longer period as the official receiver may allow ( s 288(1) and ( 3 ) ) or the court may allow ( r 6.62 ) . |
| 17 | Neville Chamberlain , always more censorious and more practical , produced a detailed memorandum , early in the reign , suggesting that the Government should submit to the new King a general programme for the improvement of tone , including the wearing of darker suits . |
| 18 | The Czechoslovak federal government on June 27 submitted to the Federal Assembly a bill on screening for past collaboration with the Statni Bezpecnost ( StB — State Security ) , the secret police under the previous communist regime . |
| 19 | Tony Benn , who acknowledges that ‘ Jim Callaghan … ran the Cabinet with considerable skill ’ , brought to the 1976 Cabinet a set of Cabinet minutes from August 1931 ‘ in which exactly the same discussion took place … to remind them that there was a history in this matter ’ . |
| 20 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 21 | Mr Stapleton added that he thought ‘ the ASB might be trying to run to the perfect OFR a little too quickly ’ . |
| 22 | Though a reconsecrated Chad was shortly afterwards appointed bishop of Lichfield with Oswiu 's consent , this must have seemed to the northern king a high-handed way for the new archbishop to act . |
| 23 | On Sept. 18-19 Baker delivered to the Syrian government a draft version of a " letter of assurances " reportedly confirming that the US regarded the Golan Heights as an occupied territory . |
| 24 | Petrovsky also delivered to the Libyan leader a letter from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 25 | Where a person is authorised by s 375 of the Companies Act 1985 to represent a corporation or company at any meeting of creditors , he must produce to the official receiver a copy of the resolution so authorising him . |
| 26 | The early development of Britain as an urban industrial society bequeathed to the twentieth century a huge stock of dwellings which were old , small , densely packed together , often poorly built originally and badly maintained subsequently . |
| 27 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 28 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 29 | My answer again is practical and comes from a further eight 30 min lessons given to the same children a year later . |
| 30 | On 27 May of that year , John Martyn read to the Royal Society an account of a book entitled The Gardeners Dictionary , introducing it as follows : |